fs: Introduce RWF_NOWAIT and FMODE_AIO_NOWAIT

RWF_NOWAIT informs kernel to bail out if an AIO request will block
for reasons such as file allocations, or a writeback triggered,
or would block while allocating requests while performing
direct I/O.

RWF_NOWAIT is translated to IOCB_NOWAIT for iocb->ki_flags.

FMODE_AIO_NOWAIT is a flag which identifies the file opened is capable
of returning -EAGAIN if the AIO call will block. This must be set by
supporting filesystems in the ->open() call.

Filesystems xfs, btrfs and ext4 would be supported in the following patches.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

fs/aio.c

@@ -1592,6 +1592,12 @@ static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
 		goto out_put_req;
 	}
 
+	if ((req->common.ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) &&
+			!(req->common.ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT)) {
+		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto out_put_req;
+	}
+
 	ret = put_user(KIOCB_KEY, &user_iocb->aio_key);
 	if (unlikely(ret)) {
 		pr_debug("EFAULT: aio_key\n");

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
 /* File was opened by fanotify and shouldn't generate fanotify events */
 #define FMODE_NONOTIFY		((__force fmode_t)0x4000000)
 
+/* File is capable of returning -EAGAIN if AIO will block */
+#define FMODE_AIO_NOWAIT	((__force fmode_t)0x8000000)
+
 /*
  * Flag for rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector
  * that indicates that they should check the contents of the iovec are
@@ -269,6 +272,7 @@ struct writeback_control;
 #define IOCB_DSYNC		(1 << 4)
 #define IOCB_SYNC		(1 << 5)
 #define IOCB_WRITE		(1 << 6)
+#define IOCB_NOWAIT		(1 << 7)
 
 struct kiocb {
 	struct file		*ki_filp;
@@ -3064,6 +3068,11 @@ static inline int kiocb_set_rw_flags(struct kiocb *ki, int flags)
 	if (unlikely(flags & ~RWF_SUPPORTED))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
+	if (flags & RWF_NOWAIT) {
+		if (!(ki->ki_filp->f_mode & FMODE_AIO_NOWAIT))
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		ki->ki_flags |= IOCB_NOWAIT;
+	}
 	if (flags & RWF_HIPRI)
 		ki->ki_flags |= IOCB_HIPRI;
 	if (flags & RWF_DSYNC)

include/uapi/linux/fs.h

@@ -360,7 +360,9 @@ struct fscrypt_key {
 #define RWF_HIPRI			0x00000001 /* high priority request, poll if possible */
 #define RWF_DSYNC			0x00000002 /* per-IO O_DSYNC */
 #define RWF_SYNC			0x00000004 /* per-IO O_SYNC */
+#define RWF_NOWAIT			0x00000008 /* per-IO, return -EAGAIN if operation would block */
 
-#define RWF_SUPPORTED			(RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC)
+#define RWF_SUPPORTED			(RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC |\
+					 RWF_NOWAIT)
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FS_H */