[AIO]: kiocb->private is too large for kiocb's on-stack.
sizeof(struct kiocb) is dangerously large for a structure commonly allocated on-stack. This patch converts the 24*sizeof(long) field, ->private, to a void pointer for use by file_operations entrypoints. A ->dtor() method is added to the kiocb in order to support the release of dynamically allocated structures referred to by ->private. The sole in-tree users of ->private are async network read/write, which are not, in fact, async, and so need not handle preallocated ->private as they would need to if ->ki_retry were ever used. The sole truly async operations are direct IO pread()/pwrite() which do not now use ->ki_retry(). All they would need to do in that case is to check for ->private already being allocated for async kiocbs. This rips 88B off the stack on 32-bit in the common case. Signed-off-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
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