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authorDmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>2019-05-20 19:41:54 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-05-20 10:54:05 -0600
commit28dc1bff012970043d32d2927e46ded334277e9b (patch)
tree1b289900a3d4d902184a5fd29e1dd140ae2876f1
parent5e4139a094e6e55dfa38d8ae954f0f24aa5f47c2 (diff)
io_uring_setup.2: fix multiple formatting issues
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-rw-r--r--man/io_uring_setup.275
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/man/io_uring_setup.2 b/man/io_uring_setup.2
index 9e66cbd..ebaee2d 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_setup.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_setup.2
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ io_uring_setup \- setup a context for performing asynchronous I/O
.nf
.BR "#include <linux/io_uring.h>"
.PP
-.BI "int io_uring_setup(u32 " entries ", struct io_uring_params *" p);
+.BI "int io_uring_setup(u32 " entries ", struct io_uring_params *" p );
.fi
.PP
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ struct io_uring_params {
.in
.PP
The
-.I flags, sq_thread_cpu
+.IR flags ,
+.IR sq_thread_cpu ,
and
.I sq_thread_idle
fields are used to configure the io_uring instance.
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ fields are used to configure the io_uring instance.
is a bit mask of 0 or more of the following values ORed
together:
.TP
-.BR IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL
+.B IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL
Perform busy-waiting for an I/O completion, as opposed to getting
notifications via an asynchronous IRQ (Interrupt Request). The file
system (if any) and block device must support polling in order for
@@ -64,12 +65,12 @@ is usable only on a file descriptor opened using the
.B O_DIRECT
flag. When a read or write is submitted to a polled context, the
application must poll for completions on the CQ ring by calling
-.BR io_uring_enter(2).
+.BR io_uring_enter (2).
It is illegal to mix and match polled and non-polled I/O on an io_uring
instance.
.TP
-.BR IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL
+.B IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL
When this flag is specified, a kernel thread is created to perform
submission queue polling. An io_uring instance configured in this way
enables an application to issue I/O without ever context switching
@@ -85,13 +86,13 @@ microseconds, it will set the
bit in the
.I flags
field of the
-.I struct io_sq_ring.
+.IR "struct io_sq_ring" .
When this happens, the application must call
-.BR io_uring_enter(2)
+.BR io_uring_enter (2)
to wake the kernel thread. If I/O is kept busy, the kernel thread
will never sleep. An application making use of this feature will need
to guard the
-.BR io_uring_enter(2)
+.BR io_uring_enter (2)
call with the following code sequence:
.in +4n
@@ -111,25 +112,25 @@ described below.
.BR
To successfully use this feature, the application must register a set of files
to be used for IO through
-.B io_uring_register(2)
+.BR io_uring_register (2)
using the
.B IORING_REGISTER_FILES
opcode. Failure to do so will result in submitted IO being errored with
.B EBADF.
.TP
-.BR IORING_SETUP_SQ_AFF
+.B IORING_SETUP_SQ_AFF
If this flag is specified, then the poll thread will be bound to the
cpu set in the
.I sq_thread_cpu
field of the
-.I struct io_uring_params.
+.IR "struct io_uring_params" .
This flag is only meaningful when
.B IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL
is specified.
.PP
If no flags are specified, the io_uring instance is setup for
interrupt driven I/O. I/O may be submitted using
-.BR io_uring_enter(2)
+.BR io_uring_enter (2)
and can be reaped by polling the completion queue.
The
@@ -177,12 +178,14 @@ ptr = mmap(0, sq_off.array + sq_entries * sizeof(__u32),
.EE
.in
.PP
-Where sq_off is the
+where
+.I sq_off
+is the
.I io_sqring_offsets
structure, and
.I ring_fd
is the file descriptor returned from
-.BR io_uring_setup(2).
+.BR io_uring_setup (2).
The addition of
.I sq_off.array
to the length of the region accounts for the fact that the ring
@@ -190,7 +193,7 @@ located at the end of the data structure. As an example, the ring
buffer head pointer can be accessed by adding
.I sq_off.head
to the address returned from
-.BR mmap(2):
+.BR mmap (2):
.PP
.in +4n
.EX
@@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ The
field is used by the kernel to communicate state information to the
application. Currently, it is used to inform the application when a
call to
-.BR io_uring_enter(2)
+.BR io_uring_enter (2)
is necessary. See the documentation for the
.B IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL
flag above.
@@ -237,7 +240,7 @@ sqentries = mmap(0, sq_entries * sizeof(struct io_uring_sqe),
The completion queue is described by
.I cq_entries
and
-.I cq_off,
+.I cq_off
shown here:
.PP
.in +4n
@@ -265,23 +268,31 @@ ptr = mmap(0, cq_off.cqes + cq_entries * sizeof(struct io_uring_cqe),
.EE
.in
.PP
-Closing the fd returned by io_uring_setup(2) will free all resources
-associated with the io_uring context.
+Closing the file descriptor returned by
+.BR io_uring_setup (2)
+will free all resources associated with the io_uring context.
.PP
.SH RETURN VALUE
-io_uring_setup() returns a new file descriptor on success. The
-application may then provide the file descriptor in a subsequent mmap
+.BR io_uring_setup (2)
+returns a new file descriptor on success. The application may then
+provide the file descriptor in a subsequent
+.BR mmap (2)
call to map the submission and completion queues, or to the
-io_uring_register or io_uring_enter system calls.
+.BR io_uring_register (2)
+or
+.BR io_uring_enter (2)
+system calls.
-On error, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.
+On error, -1 is returned and
+.I errno
+is set appropriately.
.PP
.SH ERRORS
.TP
-.BR EFAULT
+.B EFAULT
params is outside your accessible address space.
.TP
-.BR EINVAL
+.B EINVAL
The resv array contains non-zero data, p.flags contains an unsupported
flag,
.I entries
@@ -291,24 +302,24 @@ was specified, but
.B IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL
was not.
.TP
-.BR EMFILE
+.B EMFILE
The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been
reached (see the description of
.B RLIMIT_NOFILE
in
-.BR getrlimit(2)).
+.BR getrlimit (2)).
.TP
-.BR ENFILE
+.B ENFILE
The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been
reached.
.TP
-.BR ENOMEM
+.B ENOMEM
Insufficient kernel resources are available.
.TP
-.BR EPERM
+.B EPERM
.B IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL
was specified, but the effective user ID of the caller did not have sufficient
privileges.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR io_uring_register(2),
-.BR io_uring_enter(2)
+.BR io_uring_register (2),
+.BR io_uring_enter (2)