Re: [PATCH -mm 5/5][AIO] - Add listio syscall support

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:55:54 +0100
> Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> wrote:
> 
>> +struct lio_event *lio_create(struct sigevent __user *user_event,
>> +			int mode)
>> +{
>> +	int ret = 0;
>> +	struct lio_event *lio = NULL;
>> +
>> +	if (unlikely((mode == LIO_NOWAIT) && !user_event))
>> +		return lio;
>> +
>> +	lio = kzalloc(sizeof(*lio), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +
>> +	if (!lio)
>> +		return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
>> +
> 
> Why EAGAIN and not ENOMEM?

According to the POSIX AIO specifications:

"ERRORS:
...
[EAGAIN]
    The resources necessary to queue all the I/O requests were not available. "

I think memory is "a resource necessary to queue all the I/O requests"...

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/lio_listio.html

Regards,
Laurent
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