Jens Axboe
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Rather than store the task_struct itself in struct io_kiocb, store the io_uring specific task_struct. The life times are the same in terms of io_uring, and this avoids doing some dereferences through the task_struct. For the hot path of putting local task references, we can deref req->tctx instead, which we'll need anyway in that function regardless of whether it's local or remote references. This is mostly straight forward, except the original task PF_EXITING check needs a bit of tweaking. task_work is _always_ run from the originating task, except in the fallback case, where it's run from a kernel thread. Replace the potentially racy (in case of fallback work) checks for req->task->flags with current->flags. It's either the still the original task, in which case PF_EXITING will be sane, or it has PF_KTHREAD set, in which case it's fallback work. Both cases should prevent moving forward with the given request. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.