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<H2>NAME</H2>
io_submit - submit asynchronous I/O blocks for processing
<A NAME="lbAC">&nbsp;</A>
<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<PRE>
<B>#include &lt;<A HREF="file:///usr/include/linux/aio_abi.h">linux/aio_abi.h</A>&gt;</B> /* Defines needed types */
<B>int io_submit(aio_context_t </B><I>ctx_id</I><B>, long </B><I>nr</I><B>, struct iocb **</B><I>iocbpp</I><B>);</B>
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<P>
<I>Note</I>:
There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<P>
The
<B>io_submit</B>()
system call
queues <I>nr</I> I/O request blocks for processing in
the AIO context <I>ctx_id</I>.
The
<I>iocbpp</I>
argument should be an array of <I>nr</I> AIO control blocks,
which will be submitted to context <I>ctx_id</I>.
<P>
The
<I>iocb</I>
(I/O control block) structure defined in
<I>linux/aio_abi.h</I>
defines the parameters that control the I/O operation.
<P>
#include &lt;<A HREF="file:///usr/include/linux/aio_abi.h">linux/aio_abi.h</A>&gt;
<P>
struct iocb {
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u64&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_data;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u32&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;PADDED(aio_key,&nbsp;aio_rw_flags);
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_lio_opcode;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__s16&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_reqprio;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u32&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_fildes;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u64&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_buf;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u64&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_nbytes;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__s64&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_offset;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u64&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_reserved2;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u32&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_flags;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__u32&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;aio_resfd;
};
<P>
The fields of this structure are as follows:
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="1"><I>aio_data</I>
<DD>
This data is copied into the
<I>data</I>
field of the
<I>io_event</I>
structure upon I/O completion (see
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+io_getevents">io_getevents</A></B>(2)).
<DT id="2"><I>aio_key</I>
<DD>
This is an internal field used by the kernel.
Do not modify this field after an
<B>io_submit</B>()
call.
<DT id="3"><I>aio_rw_flags</I>
<DD>
This defines the R/W flags passed with structure.
The valid values are:
<DL COMPACT><DT id="4"><DD>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="5"><B>RWF_APPEND</B> (since Linux 4.16)
<DD>
Append data to the end of the file.
See the description of the flag of the same name in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+pwritev2">pwritev2</A></B>(2)
as well as the description of
<B>O_APPEND</B>
in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+open">open</A></B>(2).
The
<I>aio_offset</I>
field is ignored.
The file offset is not changed.
<DT id="6"><B>RWF_DSYNC</B> (since Linux 4.13)
<DD>
Write operation complete according to requirement of
synchronized I/O data integrity.
See the description of the flag of the same name in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+pwritev2">pwritev2</A></B>(2)
as well the description of
<B>O_DSYNC</B>
in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+open">open</A></B>(2).
<DT id="7"><B>RWF_HIPRI</B> (since Linux 4.13)
<DD>
High priority request, poll if possible
<DT id="8"><B>RWF_NOWAIT</B> (since Linux 4.14)
<DD>
Don't wait if the I/O will block for operations such as
file block allocations, dirty page flush, mutex locks,
or a congested block device inside the kernel.
If any of these conditions are met, the control block is returned
immediately with a return value of
<B>-EAGAIN</B>
in the
<I>res</I>
field of the
<I>io_event</I>
structure (see
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+io_getevents">io_getevents</A></B>(2)).
<DT id="9"><B>RWF_SYNC</B> (since Linux 4.13)
<DD>
Write operation complete according to requirement of
synchronized I/O file integrity.
See the description of the flag of the same name in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+pwritev2">pwritev2</A></B>(2)
as well the description of
<B>O_SYNC</B>
in
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+open">open</A></B>(2).
</DL>
</DL>
<DT id="10"><I>aio_lio_opcode</I>
<DD>
This defines the type of I/O to be performed by the
<I>iocb</I>
structure.
The
valid values are defined by the enum defined in
<I>linux/aio_abi.h</I>:
<DT id="11"><DD>
enum {
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IOCB_CMD_PREAD&nbsp;=&nbsp;0,
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IOCB_CMD_PWRITE&nbsp;=&nbsp;1,
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IOCB_CMD_FSYNC&nbsp;=&nbsp;2,
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IOCB_CMD_FDSYNC&nbsp;=&nbsp;3,
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IOCB_CMD_NOOP&nbsp;=&nbsp;6,
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IOCB_CMD_PREADV&nbsp;=&nbsp;7,
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV&nbsp;=&nbsp;8,
};
<DT id="12"><I>aio_reqprio</I>
<DD>
This defines the requests priority.
<DT id="13"><I>aio_fildes</I>
<DD>
The file descriptor on which the I/O operation is to be performed.
<DT id="14"><I>aio_buf</I>
<DD>
This is the buffer used to transfer data for a read or write operation.
<DT id="15"><I>aio_nbytes</I>
<DD>
This is the size of the buffer pointed to by
<I>aio_buf</I>.
<DT id="16"><I>aio_offset</I>
<DD>
This is the file offset at which the I/O operation is to be performed.
<DT id="17"><I>aio_flags</I>
<DD>
This is the set of flags associated with the
<I>iocb</I>
structure.
The valid values are:
<DL COMPACT><DT id="18"><DD>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="19"><B>IOCB_FLAG_RESFD</B>
<DD>
Asynchronous I/O control must signal the file
descriptor mentioned in
<I>aio_resfd</I>
upon completion.
<DT id="20"><B>IOCB_FLAG_IOPRIO</B> (since Linux 4.18)
<DD>
Interpret the
<I>aio_reqprio</I>
field as an
<B>IOPRIO_VALUE</B>
as defined by
<I>linux/ioprio.h</I>.
</DL>
</DL>
<DT id="21"><I>aio_resfd</I>
<DD>
The file descriptor to signal in the event of asynchronous I/O completion.
</DL>
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<H2>RETURN VALUE</H2>
On success,
<B>io_submit</B>()
returns the number of <I>iocb</I>s submitted (which may be
less than <I>nr</I>, or 0 if <I>nr</I> is zero).
For the failure return, see NOTES.
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<H2>ERRORS</H2>
<DL COMPACT>
<DT id="22"><B>EAGAIN</B>
<DD>
Insufficient resources are available to queue any <I>iocb</I>s.
<DT id="23"><B>EBADF</B>
<DD>
The file descriptor specified in the first <I>iocb</I> is invalid.
<DT id="24"><B>EFAULT</B>
<DD>
One of the data structures points to invalid data.
<DT id="25"><B>EINVAL</B>
<DD>
The AIO context specified by <I>ctx_id</I> is invalid.
<I>nr</I> is less than 0.
The <I>iocb</I> at
<I>*iocbpp[0]</I>
is not properly initialized, the operation specified is invalid for the file
descriptor in the <I>iocb</I>, or the value in the
<I>aio_reqprio</I>
field is invalid.
<DT id="26"><B>ENOSYS</B>
<DD>
<B>io_submit</B>()
is not implemented on this architecture.
<DT id="27"><B>EPERM</B>
<DD>
The
<I>aio_reqprio</I>
field is set with the class
<B>IOPRIO_CLASS_RT</B>,
but the submitting context does not have the
<B>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</B>
capability.
</DL>
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<H2>VERSIONS</H2>
<P>
The asynchronous I/O system calls first appeared in Linux 2.5.
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<H2>CONFORMING TO</H2>
<P>
<B>io_submit</B>()
is Linux-specific and should not be used in
programs that are intended to be portable.
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<H2>NOTES</H2>
Glibc does not provide a wrapper function for this system call.
You could invoke it using
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+syscall">syscall</A></B>(2).
But instead, you probably want to use the
<B>io_submit</B>()
wrapper function provided by
<I>libaio</I>.
<P>
Note that the
<I>libaio</I>
wrapper function uses a different type
(<I>io_context_t</I>)
for the
<I>ctx_id</I>
argument.
Note also that the
<I>libaio</I>
wrapper does not follow the usual C library conventions for indicating errors:
on error it returns a negated error number
(the negative of one of the values listed in ERRORS).
If the system call is invoked via
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+syscall">syscall</A></B>(2),
then the return value follows the usual conventions for
indicating an error: -1, with
<I>errno</I>
set to a (positive) value that indicates the error.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+io_cancel">io_cancel</A></B>(2),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+io_destroy">io_destroy</A></B>(2),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+io_getevents">io_getevents</A></B>(2),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?2+io_setup">io_setup</A></B>(2),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+aio">aio</A></B>(7)
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<H2>COLOPHON</H2>
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<A NAME="index">&nbsp;</A><H2>Index</H2>
<DL>
<DT id="28"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="29"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="30"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="31"><A HREF="#lbAE">RETURN VALUE</A><DD>
<DT id="32"><A HREF="#lbAF">ERRORS</A><DD>
<DT id="33"><A HREF="#lbAG">VERSIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="34"><A HREF="#lbAH">CONFORMING TO</A><DD>
<DT id="35"><A HREF="#lbAI">NOTES</A><DD>
<DT id="36"><A HREF="#lbAJ">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="37"><A HREF="#lbAK">COLOPHON</A><DD>
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