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    io_uring: add support for vectored futex waits · 8f350194
    Jens Axboe authored
    This adds support for IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAITV, which allows registering a
    notification for a number of futexes at once. If one of the futexes are
    woken, then the request will complete with the index of the futex that got
    woken as the result. This is identical to what the normal vectored futex
    waitv operation does.
    
    Use like IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAIT, except sqe->addr must now contain a
    pointer to a struct futex_waitv array, and sqe->off must now contain the
    number of elements in that array. As flags are passed in the futex_vector
    array, and likewise for the value and futex address(es), sqe->addr2
    and sqe->addr3 are also reserved for IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAITV.
    
    For cancelations, FUTEX_WAITV does not rely on the futex_unqueue()
    return value as we're dealing with multiple futexes. Instead, a separate
    per io_uring request atomic is used to claim ownership of the request.
    
    Waiting on N futexes could be done with IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAIT as well,
    but that punts a lot of the work to the application:
    
    1) Application would need to submit N IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAIT requests,
       rather than just a single IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAITV.
    
    2) When one futex is woken, application would need to cancel the
       remaining N-1 requests that didn't trigger.
    
    While this is of course doable, having a single vectored futex wait
    makes for much simpler application code.
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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