epoll: support for disabling items, and a self-test app
authorPaton J. Lewis <palewis@adobe.com>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 00:13:39 +0000 (17:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:05:00 +0000 (03:05 +0900)
Enhanced epoll_ctl to support EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE, which disables an epoll
item.  If epoll_ctl doesn't return -EBUSY in this case, it is then safe to
delete the epoll item in a multi-threaded environment.  Also added a new
test_epoll self- test app to both demonstrate the need for this feature
and test it.

Signed-off-by: Paton J. Lewis <palewis@adobe.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Holland <pholland@adobe.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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