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Add more documentation regarding unsafe AIO requests.

Description

Add more documentation regarding unsafe AIO requests.

The asynchronous I/O changes made previously result in different
behavior out of the box. Previously all AIO requests failed with
ENOSYS / SIGSYS unless aio.ko was explicitly loaded. Now, some AIO
requests complete and others ("unsafe" requests) fail with EOPNOTSUPP.

Reword the introductory paragraph in aio(4) to add a general
description of AIO before describing the vfs.aio.enable_unsafe sysctl.

Remove the ENOSYS error description from aio_fsync(2), aio_read(2),
and aio_write(2) and replace it with a description of EOPNOTSUPP.

Remove the ENOSYS error description from aio_mlock(2).

Log a message to the system log the first time a process requests an
"unsafe" AIO request that fails with EOPNOTSUPP. This is modeled on
the log message used for processes using the legacy pty devices.

Reviewed by: kib (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7151

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Provenance
jhbAuthored on
Reviewer
kib
Differential Revision
D7151: Add more documentation regarding unsafe AIO requests.
Parents
rS303163: Disable debugging options in arm configurations.
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