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- AIO completion signal notification v3

From:  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Dugu=E9?= <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
To:  linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  [PATCH -mm 0/5][AIO] - AIO completion signal notification v3
Date:  Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:24:41 +0100
Cc:  linux-aio <linux-aio@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@bull.net>
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  Here is the latest rework of the AIO completion signal notification patches.

  This set consists in 5 patches:

	1. rework-compat-sys-io-submit: rework the sys_io_submit() compat layer,
	   laying out the base for the following patches

	2. aio-header-fix-includes: fixes the double inclusion of uio.h in aio.h

	3. export-good_sigevent: move good_sigevent into signal.c and export it

	4. aio-notify-sig: the AIO completion signal notification

	5. listio: adds listio support

  Description are in the individual patches.


  Changes from v2:
	- rebased to 2.6.19-rc6-mm2
	- reworked the sys_io_submit() compat layer as suggested by Zach Brown
	- fixed saving of a pointer to a task struct in aio-notify-sig as
	  pointed out by Andrew Morton

  Changes from v1:
	- cleanups suggested by Christoph Hellwig, Badari Pulavarty and Zach Brown
	- added lisio patch


  Comments welcomed, as usual.

  Thanks,

  Sébastien.

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