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data/ext/libev/ev_linuxaio.c

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+/*
+ * libev linux aio fd activity backend
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2019 Marc Alexander Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de>
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica-
+ * tion, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+ *
+ *   1.  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
+ *       this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ *
+ *   2.  Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+ *       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+ *       documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
+ * WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MER-
+ * CHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO
+ * EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPE-
+ * CIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
+ * PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
+ * OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
+ * WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTH-
+ * ERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
+ * OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ *
+ * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
+ * the GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 or any later version,
+ * in which case the provisions of the GPL are applicable instead of
+ * the above. If you wish to allow the use of your version of this file
+ * only under the terms of the GPL and not to allow others to use your
+ * version of this file under the BSD license, indicate your decision
+ * by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
+ * and other provisions required by the GPL. If you do not delete the
+ * provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
+ * either the BSD or the GPL.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * general notes about linux aio:
+ *
+ * a) at first, the linux aio IOCB_CMD_POLL functionality introduced in
+ *    4.18 looks too good to be true: both watchers and events can be
+ *    batched, and events can even be handled in userspace using
+ *    a ring buffer shared with the kernel. watchers can be canceled
+ *    regardless of whether the fd has been closed. no problems with fork.
+ *    ok, the ring buffer is 200% undocumented (there isn't even a
+ *    header file), but otherwise, it's pure bliss!
+ * b) ok, watchers are one-shot, so you have to re-arm active ones
+ *    on every iteration. so much for syscall-less event handling,
+ *    but at least these re-arms can be batched, no big deal, right?
+ * c) well, linux as usual: the documentation lies to you: io_submit
+ *    sometimes returns EINVAL because the kernel doesn't feel like
+ *    handling your poll mask - ttys can be polled for POLLOUT,
+ *    POLLOUT|POLLIN, but polling for POLLIN fails. just great,
+ *    so we have to fall back to something else (hello, epoll),
+ *    but at least the fallback can be slow, because these are
+ *    exceptional cases, right?
+ * d) hmm, you have to tell the kernel the maximum number of watchers
+ *    you want to queue when initialising the aio context. but of
+ *    course the real limit is magically calculated in the kernel, and
+ *    is often higher then we asked for. so we just have to destroy
+ *    the aio context and re-create it a bit larger if we hit the limit.
+ *    (starts to remind you of epoll? well, it's a bit more deterministic
+ *    and less gambling, but still ugly as hell).
+ * e) that's when you find out you can also hit an arbitrary system-wide
+ *    limit. or the kernel simply doesn't want to handle your watchers.
+ *    what the fuck do we do then? you guessed it, in the middle
+ *    of event handling we have to switch to 100% epoll polling. and
+ *    that better is as fast as normal epoll polling, so you practically
+ *    have to use the normal epoll backend with all its quirks.
+ * f) end result of this train wreck: it inherits all the disadvantages
+ *    from epoll, while adding a number on its own. why even bother to use
+ *    it? because if conditions are right and your fds are supported and you
+ *    don't hit a limit, this backend is actually faster, doesn't gamble with
+ *    your fds, batches watchers and events and doesn't require costly state
+ *    recreates. well, until it does.
+ * g) all of this makes this backend use almost twice as much code as epoll.
+ *    which in turn uses twice as much code as poll. and that#s not counting
+ *    the fact that this backend also depends on the epoll backend, making
+ *    it three times as much code as poll, or kqueue.
+ * h) bleah. why can't linux just do kqueue. sure kqueue is ugly, but by now
+ *    it's clear that whatever linux comes up with is far, far, far worse.
+ */
+
+#include <sys/time.h> /* actually linux/time.h, but we must assume they are compatible */
+#include <poll.h>
+#include <linux/aio_abi.h>
+
+/*****************************************************************************/
+/* syscall wrapdadoop - this section has the raw api/abi definitions */
+
+#include <sys/syscall.h> /* no glibc wrappers */
+
+/* aio_abi.h is not versioned in any way, so we cannot test for its existance */
+#define IOCB_CMD_POLL 5
+
+/* taken from linux/fs/aio.c. yup, that's a .c file.
+ * not only is this totally undocumented, not even the source code
+ * can tell you what the future semantics of compat_features and
+ * incompat_features are, or what header_length actually is for.
+ */
+#define AIO_RING_MAGIC                  0xa10a10a1
+#define EV_AIO_RING_INCOMPAT_FEATURES   0
+struct aio_ring
+{
+  unsigned id;    /* kernel internal index number */
+  unsigned nr;    /* number of io_events */
+  unsigned head;  /* Written to by userland or by kernel. */
+  unsigned tail;
+
+  unsigned magic;
+  unsigned compat_features;
+  unsigned incompat_features;
+  unsigned header_length;  /* size of aio_ring */
+
+  struct io_event io_events[0];
+};
+
+/*
+ * define some syscall wrappers for common architectures
+ * this is mostly for nice looks during debugging, not performance.
+ * our syscalls return < 0, not == -1, on error. which is good
+ * enough for linux aio.
+ * TODO: arm is also common nowadays, maybe even mips and x86
+ * TODO: after implementing this, it suddenly looks like overkill, but its hard to remove...
+ */
+#if __GNUC__ && __linux && ECB_AMD64 && !defined __OPTIMIZE_SIZE__
+  /* the costly errno access probably kills this for size optimisation */
+
+  #define ev_syscall(nr,narg,arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4,arg5)                 \
+    ({                                                                 \
+        long res;                                                      \
+        register unsigned long r5 __asm__ ("r8" );                     \
+        register unsigned long r4 __asm__ ("r10");                     \
+        register unsigned long r3 __asm__ ("rdx");                     \
+        register unsigned long r2 __asm__ ("rsi");                     \
+        register unsigned long r1 __asm__ ("rdi");                     \
+        if (narg >= 5) r5 = (unsigned long)(arg5);                     \
+        if (narg >= 4) r4 = (unsigned long)(arg4);                     \
+        if (narg >= 3) r3 = (unsigned long)(arg3);                     \
+        if (narg >= 2) r2 = (unsigned long)(arg2);                     \
+        if (narg >= 1) r1 = (unsigned long)(arg1);                     \
+        __asm__ __volatile__ (                                         \
+          "syscall\n\t"                                                \
+          : "=a" (res)                                                 \
+          : "0" (nr), "r" (r1), "r" (r2), "r" (r3), "r" (r4), "r" (r5) \
+          : "cc", "r11", "cx", "memory");                              \
+        errno = -res;                                                  \
+        res;                                                           \
+    })
+
+#endif
+
+#ifdef ev_syscall
+  #define ev_syscall0(nr)                          ev_syscall (nr, 0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0
+  #define ev_syscall1(nr,arg1)                     ev_syscall (nr, 1, arg1,    0,    0,    0,    0)
+  #define ev_syscall2(nr,arg1,arg2)                ev_syscall (nr, 2, arg1, arg2,    0,    0,    0)
+  #define ev_syscall3(nr,arg1,arg2,arg3)           ev_syscall (nr, 3, arg1, arg2, arg3,    0,    0)
+  #define ev_syscall4(nr,arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4)      ev_syscall (nr, 3, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4,    0)
+  #define ev_syscall5(nr,arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4,arg5) ev_syscall (nr, 5, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5)
+#else
+  #define ev_syscall0(nr)                          syscall (nr)
+  #define ev_syscall1(nr,arg1)                     syscall (nr, arg1)
+  #define ev_syscall2(nr,arg1,arg2)                syscall (nr, arg1, arg2)
+  #define ev_syscall3(nr,arg1,arg2,arg3)           syscall (nr, arg1, arg2, arg3)
+  #define ev_syscall4(nr,arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4)      syscall (nr, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4)
+  #define ev_syscall5(nr,arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4,arg5) syscall (nr, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5)
+#endif
+
+inline_size
+int
+evsys_io_setup (unsigned nr_events, aio_context_t *ctx_idp)
+{
+  return ev_syscall2 (SYS_io_setup, nr_events, ctx_idp);
+}
+
+inline_size
+int
+evsys_io_destroy (aio_context_t ctx_id)
+{
+  return ev_syscall1 (SYS_io_destroy, ctx_id);
+}
+
+inline_size
+int
+evsys_io_submit (aio_context_t ctx_id, long nr, struct iocb *cbp[])
+{
+  return ev_syscall3 (SYS_io_submit, ctx_id, nr, cbp);
+}
+
+inline_size
+int
+evsys_io_cancel (aio_context_t ctx_id, struct iocb *cbp, struct io_event *result)
+{
+  return ev_syscall3 (SYS_io_cancel, ctx_id, cbp, result);
+}
+
+inline_size
+int
+evsys_io_getevents (aio_context_t ctx_id, long min_nr, long nr, struct io_event *events, struct timespec *timeout)
+{
+  return ev_syscall5 (SYS_io_getevents, ctx_id, min_nr, nr, events, timeout);
+}
+
+/*****************************************************************************/
+/* actual backed implementation */
+
+ecb_cold
+static int
+linuxaio_nr_events (EV_P)
+{
+  /* we start with 16 iocbs and incraese from there
+   * that's tiny, but the kernel has a rather low system-wide
+   * limit that can be reached quickly, so let's be parsimonious
+   * with this resource.
+   * Rest assured, the kernel generously rounds up small and big numbers
+   * in different ways (but doesn't seem to charge you for it).
+   * The 15 here is because the kernel usually has a power of two as aio-max-nr,
+   * and this helps to take advantage of that limit.
+   */
+
+  /* we try to fill 4kB pages exactly.
+   * the ring buffer header is 32 bytes, every io event is 32 bytes.
+   * the kernel takes the io requests number, doubles it, adds 2
+   * and adds the ring buffer.
+   * the way we use this is by starting low, and then roughly doubling the
+   * size each time we hit a limit.
+   */
+
+  int requests   = 15 << linuxaio_iteration;
+  int one_page   =  (4096
+                    / sizeof (struct io_event)    ) / 2; /* how many fit into one page */
+  int first_page = ((4096 - sizeof (struct aio_ring))
+                    / sizeof (struct io_event) - 2) / 2; /* how many fit into the first page */
+
+  /* if everything fits into one page, use count exactly */
+  if (requests > first_page)
+    /* otherwise, round down to full pages and add the first page */
+    requests = requests / one_page * one_page + first_page;
+
+  return requests;
+}
+
+/* we use out own wrapper structure in case we ever want to do something "clever" */
+typedef struct aniocb
+{
+  struct iocb io;
+  /*int inuse;*/
+} *ANIOCBP;
+
+inline_size
+void
+linuxaio_array_needsize_iocbp (ANIOCBP *base, int offset, int count)
+{
+  while (count--)
+    {
+      /* TODO: quite the overhead to allocate every iocb separately, maybe use our own allocator? */
+      ANIOCBP iocb = (ANIOCBP)ev_malloc (sizeof (*iocb));
+
+      /* full zero initialise is probably not required at the moment, but
+       * this is not well documented, so we better do it.
+       */
+      memset (iocb, 0, sizeof (*iocb));
+
+      iocb->io.aio_lio_opcode = IOCB_CMD_POLL;
+      iocb->io.aio_data       = offset;
+      iocb->io.aio_fildes     = offset;
+
+      base [offset++] = iocb;
+    }
+}
+
+ecb_cold
+static void
+linuxaio_free_iocbp (EV_P)
+{
+  while (linuxaio_iocbpmax--)
+    ev_free (linuxaio_iocbps [linuxaio_iocbpmax]);
+
+  linuxaio_iocbpmax = 0; /* next resize will completely reallocate the array, at some overhead */
+}
+
+static void
+linuxaio_modify (EV_P_ int fd, int oev, int nev)
+{
+  array_needsize (ANIOCBP, linuxaio_iocbps, linuxaio_iocbpmax, fd + 1, linuxaio_array_needsize_iocbp);
+  ANIOCBP iocb = linuxaio_iocbps [fd];
+
+  if (iocb->io.aio_reqprio < 0)
+    {
+      /* we handed this fd over to epoll, so undo this first */
+      /* we do it manually because the optimisations on epoll_modify won't do us any good */
+      epoll_ctl (backend_fd, EPOLL_CTL_DEL, fd, 0);
+      anfds [fd].emask = 0;
+      iocb->io.aio_reqprio = 0;
+    }
+
+  if (iocb->io.aio_buf)
+    {
+      evsys_io_cancel (linuxaio_ctx, &iocb->io, (struct io_event *)0);
+      /* on relevant kernels, io_cancel fails with EINPROGRES if everything is fine */
+      assert (("libev: linuxaio unexpected io_cancel failed", errno == EINPROGRESS));
+    }
+
+  if (nev)
+    {
+      iocb->io.aio_buf =
+          (nev & EV_READ ? POLLIN : 0)
+          | (nev & EV_WRITE ? POLLOUT : 0);
+
+      /* queue iocb up for io_submit */
+      /* this assumes we only ever get one call per fd per loop iteration */
+      ++linuxaio_submitcnt;
+      array_needsize (struct iocb *, linuxaio_submits, linuxaio_submitmax, linuxaio_submitcnt, array_needsize_noinit);
+      linuxaio_submits [linuxaio_submitcnt - 1] = &iocb->io;
+    }
+}
+
+static void
+linuxaio_epoll_cb (EV_P_ struct ev_io *w, int revents)
+{
+  epoll_poll (EV_A_ 0);
+}
+
+inline_speed
+void
+linuxaio_fd_rearm (EV_P_ int fd)
+{
+  anfds [fd].events = 0;
+  linuxaio_iocbps [fd]->io.aio_buf = 0;
+  fd_change (EV_A_ fd, EV_ANFD_REIFY);
+}
+
+static void
+linuxaio_parse_events (EV_P_ struct io_event *ev, int nr)
+{
+  while (nr)
+    {
+      int fd  = ev->data;
+      int res = ev->res;
+
+      assert (("libev: iocb fd must be in-bounds", fd >= 0 && fd < anfdmax));
+
+      /* feed events, we do not expect or handle POLLNVAL */
+      fd_event (
+        EV_A_
+        fd,
+        (res & (POLLOUT | POLLERR | POLLHUP) ? EV_WRITE : 0)
+        | (res & (POLLIN | POLLERR | POLLHUP) ? EV_READ : 0)
+      );
+
+      /* linux aio is oneshot: rearm fd. TODO: this does more work than strictly needed */
+      linuxaio_fd_rearm (EV_A_ fd);
+
+      --nr;
+      ++ev;
+    }
+}
+
+/* get any events from ring buffer, return true if any were handled */
+static int
+linuxaio_get_events_from_ring (EV_P)
+{
+  struct aio_ring *ring = (struct aio_ring *)linuxaio_ctx;
+
+  /* the kernel reads and writes both of these variables, */
+  /* as a C extension, we assume that volatile use here */
+  /* both makes reads atomic and once-only */
+  unsigned head = *(volatile unsigned *)&ring->head;
+  unsigned tail = *(volatile unsigned *)&ring->tail;
+
+  if (head == tail)
+    return 0;
+
+  /* make sure the events up to tail are visible */
+  ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_ACQUIRE;
+
+  /* parse all available events, but only once, to avoid starvation */
+  if (tail > head) /* normal case around */
+    linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ring->io_events + head, tail - head);
+  else /* wrapped around */
+    {
+      linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ring->io_events + head, ring->nr - head);
+      linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ring->io_events, tail);
+    }
+
+  ECB_MEMORY_FENCE_RELEASE;
+  /* as an extension to C, we hope that the volatile will make this atomic and once-only */
+  *(volatile unsigned *)&ring->head = tail;
+
+  return 1;
+}
+
+inline_size
+int
+linuxaio_ringbuf_valid (EV_P)
+{
+  struct aio_ring *ring = (struct aio_ring *)linuxaio_ctx;
+
+  return expect_true (ring->magic == AIO_RING_MAGIC)
+                      && ring->incompat_features == EV_AIO_RING_INCOMPAT_FEATURES
+                      && ring->header_length == sizeof (struct aio_ring); /* TODO: or use it to find io_event[0]? */
+}
+
+/* read at least one event from kernel, or timeout */
+inline_size
+void
+linuxaio_get_events (EV_P_ ev_tstamp timeout)
+{
+  struct timespec ts;
+  struct io_event ioev[8]; /* 256 octet stack space */
+  int want = 1; /* how many events to request */
+  int ringbuf_valid = linuxaio_ringbuf_valid (EV_A);
+
+  if (expect_true (ringbuf_valid))
+    {
+      /* if the ring buffer has any events, we don't wait or call the kernel at all */
+      if (linuxaio_get_events_from_ring (EV_A))
+        return;
+
+      /* if the ring buffer is empty, and we don't have a timeout, then don't call the kernel */
+      if (!timeout)
+        return;
+    }
+  else
+    /* no ringbuffer, request slightly larger batch */
+    want = sizeof (ioev) / sizeof (ioev [0]);
+
+  /* no events, so wait for some
+   * for fairness reasons, we do this in a loop, to fetch all events
+   */
+  for (;;)
+    {
+      int res;
+
+      EV_RELEASE_CB;
+
+      ts.tv_sec  = (long)timeout;
+      ts.tv_nsec = (long)((timeout - ts.tv_sec) * 1e9);
+
+      res = evsys_io_getevents (linuxaio_ctx, 1, want, ioev, &ts);
+
+      EV_ACQUIRE_CB;
+
+      if (res < 0)
+        if (errno == EINTR)
+          /* ignored, retry */;
+        else
+          ev_syserr ("(libev) linuxaio io_getevents");
+      else if (res)
+        {
+          /* at least one event available, handle them */
+          linuxaio_parse_events (EV_A_ ioev, res);
+
+          if (expect_true (ringbuf_valid))
+            {
+              /* if we have a ring buffer, handle any remaining events in it */
+              linuxaio_get_events_from_ring (EV_A);
+
+              /* at this point, we should have handled all outstanding events */
+              break;
+            }
+          else if (res < want)
+            /* otherwise, if there were fewere events than we wanted, we assume there are no more */
+            break;
+        }
+      else
+        break; /* no events from the kernel, we are done */
+
+      timeout = 0; /* only wait in the first iteration */
+    }
+}
+
+inline_size
+int
+linuxaio_io_setup (EV_P)
+{
+  linuxaio_ctx = 0;
+  return evsys_io_setup (linuxaio_nr_events (EV_A), &linuxaio_ctx);
+}
+
+static void
+linuxaio_poll (EV_P_ ev_tstamp timeout)
+{
+  int submitted;
+
+  /* first phase: submit new iocbs */
+
+  /* io_submit might return less than the requested number of iocbs */
+  /* this is, afaics, only because of errors, but we go by the book and use a loop, */
+  /* which allows us to pinpoint the erroneous iocb */
+  for (submitted = 0; submitted < linuxaio_submitcnt; )
+    {
+      int res = evsys_io_submit (linuxaio_ctx, linuxaio_submitcnt - submitted, linuxaio_submits + submitted);
+
+      if (expect_false (res < 0))
+        if (errno == EINVAL)
+          {
+            /* This happens for unsupported fds, officially, but in my testing,
+             * also randomly happens for supported fds. We fall back to good old
+             * poll() here, under the assumption that this is a very rare case.
+             * See https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1047453/ to see
+             * discussion about such a case (ttys) where polling for POLLIN
+             * fails but POLLIN|POLLOUT works.
+             */
+            struct iocb *iocb = linuxaio_submits [submitted];
+            epoll_modify (EV_A_ iocb->aio_fildes, 0, anfds [iocb->aio_fildes].events);
+            iocb->aio_reqprio = -1; /* mark iocb as epoll */
+
+            res = 1; /* skip this iocb - another iocb, another chance */
+          }
+        else if (errno == EAGAIN)
+          {
+            /* This happens when the ring buffer is full, or some other shit we
+             * don't know and isn't documented. Most likely because we have too
+             * many requests and linux aio can't be assed to handle them.
+             * In this case, we try to allocate a larger ring buffer, freeing
+             * ours first. This might fail, in which case we have to fall back to 100%
+             * epoll.
+             * God, how I hate linux not getting its act together. Ever.
+             */
+            evsys_io_destroy (linuxaio_ctx);
+            linuxaio_submitcnt = 0;
+
+            /* rearm all fds with active iocbs */
+            {
+              int fd;
+	      for (fd = 0; fd < linuxaio_iocbpmax; ++fd)
+                if (linuxaio_iocbps [fd]->io.aio_buf)
+                  linuxaio_fd_rearm (EV_A_ fd);
+            }
+
+            ++linuxaio_iteration;
+            if (linuxaio_io_setup (EV_A) < 0)
+              {
+                /* to bad, we can't get a new aio context, go 100% epoll */
+                linuxaio_free_iocbp (EV_A);
+                ev_io_stop (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
+                ev_ref (EV_A);
+                linuxaio_ctx = 0;
+                backend_modify = epoll_modify;
+                backend_poll   = epoll_poll;
+              }
+
+            timeout = 0;
+            /* it's easiest to handle this mess in another iteration */
+            return;
+          }
+        else if (errno == EBADF)
+          {
+            assert (("libev: event loop rejected bad fd", errno != EBADF));
+            fd_kill (EV_A_ linuxaio_submits [submitted]->aio_fildes);
+
+            res = 1; /* skip this iocb */
+          }
+        else
+          ev_syserr ("(libev) linuxaio io_submit");
+
+      submitted += res;
+    }
+
+  linuxaio_submitcnt = 0;
+
+  /* second phase: fetch and parse events */
+
+  linuxaio_get_events (EV_A_ timeout);
+}
+
+inline_size
+int
+linuxaio_init (EV_P_ int flags)
+{
+  /* would be great to have a nice test for IOCB_CMD_POLL instead */
+  /* also: test some semi-common fd types, such as files and ttys in recommended_backends */
+  /* 4.18 introduced IOCB_CMD_POLL, 4.19 made epoll work, and we need that */
+  if (ev_linux_version () < 0x041300)
+    return 0;
+
+  if (!epoll_init (EV_A_ 0))
+    return 0;
+
+  linuxaio_iteration = 0;
+
+  if (linuxaio_io_setup (EV_A) < 0)
+    {
+      epoll_destroy (EV_A);
+      return 0;
+    }
+
+  ev_io_init  (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w, linuxaio_epoll_cb, backend_fd, EV_READ);
+  ev_set_priority (&linuxaio_epoll_w, EV_MAXPRI);
+  ev_io_start (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
+  ev_unref (EV_A); /* watcher should not keep loop alive */
+
+  backend_modify  = linuxaio_modify;
+  backend_poll    = linuxaio_poll;
+
+  linuxaio_iocbpmax = 0;
+  linuxaio_iocbps = 0;
+
+  linuxaio_submits = 0;
+  linuxaio_submitmax = 0;
+  linuxaio_submitcnt = 0;
+
+  return EVBACKEND_LINUXAIO;
+}
+
+inline_size
+void
+linuxaio_destroy (EV_P)
+{
+  epoll_destroy (EV_A);
+  linuxaio_free_iocbp (EV_A);
+  evsys_io_destroy (linuxaio_ctx); /* fails in child, aio context is destroyed */
+}
+
+inline_size
+void
+linuxaio_fork (EV_P)
+{
+  /* this frees all iocbs, which is very heavy-handed */
+  linuxaio_destroy (EV_A);
+  linuxaio_submitcnt = 0; /* all pointers were invalidated */
+
+  linuxaio_iteration = 0; /* we start over in the child */
+
+  while (linuxaio_io_setup (EV_A) < 0)
+    ev_syserr ("(libev) linuxaio io_setup");
+
+  /* forking epoll should also effectively unregister all fds from the backend */
+  epoll_fork (EV_A);
+
+  ev_io_stop  (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
+  ev_io_set   (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w, backend_fd, EV_READ);
+  ev_io_start (EV_A_ &linuxaio_epoll_w);
+
+  /* epoll_fork already did this. hopefully */
+  /*fd_rearm_all (EV_A);*/
+}
+