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NAME top
io_uring_enter - initiate and/or complete asynchronous I/OSYNOPSIS top
**#include <liburing.h>**
**int io_uring_enter(unsigned int** _fd_**, unsigned int** _tosubmit_**,**
**unsigned int** _mincomplete_**, unsigned int** _flags_**,**
**sigset_t ***_sig_**);**
**int io_uring_enter2(unsigned int** _fd_**, unsigned int** _tosubmit_**,**
**unsigned int** _mincomplete_**, unsigned int** _flags_**,**
**sigset_t ***_sig_**, size_t** _sz_**);**DESCRIPTION top
[io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html) is used to initiate and complete I/O using the
shared submission and completion queues setup by a call to
[io_uring_setup(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fsetup.2.html). A single call can both submit new I/O and wait
for completions of I/O initiated by this call or previous calls to
[io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html).
_fd_ is the file descriptor returned by [io_uring_setup(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fsetup.2.html).
_tosubmit_ specifies the number of I/Os to submit from the
submission queue. _flags_ is a bitmask of the following values:
**IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS**
If this flag is set, then the system call will wait for the
specified number of events in _mincomplete_ before
returning. This flag can be set along with _tosubmit_ to
both submit and complete events in a single system call.
If this flag is set either the flag
**IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN** must not be set or the thread
issuing the syscall must be the thread that created the
io_uring associated with _fd,_ or be the thread that enabled
the ring originally created with **IORING_SETUP_R_DISABLED**
via [io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html) or [io_uring_enable_rings(3)](../man3/io%5Furing%5Fenable%5Frings.3.html).
**IORING_ENTER_SQ_WAKEUP**
If the ring has been created with **IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL,** then
this flag asks the kernel to wakeup the SQ kernel thread to
submit IO.
**IORING_ENTER_SQ_WAIT**
If the ring has been created with **IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL,** then
the application has no real insight into when the SQ kernel
thread has consumed entries from the SQ ring. This can lead
to a situation where the application can no longer get a
free SQE entry to submit, without knowing when one will
become available as the SQ kernel thread consumes them. If
the system call is used with this flag set, then it will
wait until at least one entry is free in the SQ ring.
**IORING_ENTER_EXT_ARG**
Since kernel 5.11, the system calls arguments have been
modified to look like the following:
**int io_uring_enter2(unsigned int** _fd_**, unsigned int** _tosubmit_**,**
**unsigned int** _mincomplete_**, unsigned int** _flags_**,**
**const void ***_arg_**, size_t** _argsz_**);**
which behaves just like the original definition by default.
However, if **IORING_ENTER_EXT_ARG** is set, then instead of a
_sigsett_ being passed in, a pointer to a _struct_
_iouringgeteventsarg_ is used instead and _argsz_ must be
set to the size of this structure. The definition is as
follows:
**struct io_uring_getevents_arg {**
**__u64 sigmask;**
**__u32 sigmask_sz;**
**__u32 pad;**
**__u64 ts;**
**};**
which allows passing in both a signal mask as well as
pointer to a _struct _kerneltimespec_ timeout value. If _ts_
is set to a valid pointer, then this time value indicates
the timeout for waiting on events. If an application is
waiting on events and wishes to stop waiting after a
specified amount of time, then this can be accomplished
directly in version 5.11 and newer by using this feature.
**IORING_ENTER_REGISTERED_RING**
If the ring file descriptor has been registered through use
of **IORING_REGISTER_RING_FDS**, then setting this flag will
tell the kernel that the _ringfd_ passed in is the
registered ring offset rather than a normal file
descriptor.
**IORING_ENTER_ABS_TIMER**
When this flag is set, the timeout argument passed in
_struct iouringgeteventsarg_ will be interpreted as an
absolute time of the registered clock (see
**IORING_REGISTER_CLOCK)** until which the waiting should end.
Available since 6.12
**IORING_ENTER_EXT_ARG_REG**
When this flag is set, _arg_ is not a pointer to a
_struct_io_uring_getevents_arg_,_ but merely an offset into an
area of wait regions previously registered with
[io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html) using the **IORING_REGISTER_CQWAIT_REG**
operation. Available since 6.12
If the io_uring instance was configured for polling, by specifying
**IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL** in the call to [io_uring_setup(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fsetup.2.html), then
min_complete has a slightly different meaning. Passing a value of
0 instructs the kernel to return any events which are already
complete, without blocking. If _mincomplete_ is a non-zero value,
the kernel will still return immediately if any completion events
are available. If no event completions are available, then the
call will poll either until one or more completions become
available, or until the process has exceeded its scheduler time
slice.
Note that, for interrupt driven I/O (where **IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL** was
not specified in the call to [io_uring_setup(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fsetup.2.html)), an application
may check the completion queue for event completions without
entering the kernel at all.
When the system call returns that a certain amount of SQEs have
been consumed and submitted, it's safe to reuse SQE entries in the
ring. This is true even if the actual IO submission had to be
punted to async context, which means that the SQE may in fact not
have been submitted yet. If the kernel requires later use of a
particular SQE entry, it will have made a private copy of it.
_sig_ is a pointer to a signal mask (see [sigprocmask(2)](../man2/sigprocmask.2.html)); if _sig_ is
not NULL, [io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html) first replaces the current signal mask
by the one pointed to by _sig_, then waits for events to become
available in the completion queue, and then restores the original
signal mask. The following [io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html) call:
ret = io_uring_enter(fd, 0, 1, IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS, &sig);
is equivalent to _atomically_ executing the following calls:
pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sig, &orig);
ret = io_uring_enter(fd, 0, 1, IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS, NULL);
pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &orig, NULL);
See the description of [pselect(2)](../man2/pselect.2.html) for an explanation of why the
_sig_ parameter is necessary.
Submission queue entries are represented using the following data
structure:
/*
* IO submission data structure (Submission Queue Entry)
*/
struct io_uring_sqe {
__u8 opcode; /* type of operation for this sqe */
__u8 flags; /* IOSQE_ flags */
__u16 ioprio; /* ioprio for the request */
__s32 fd; /* file descriptor to do IO on */
union {
__u64 off; /* offset into file */
__u64 addr2;
struct {
__u32 cmd_op;
__u32 __pad1;
};
};
union {
__u64 addr; /* pointer to buffer or iovecs */
__u64 splice_off_in;
struct {
__u32 level;
__u32 optname;
};
};
__u32 len; /* buffer size or number of iovecs */
union {
__kernel_rwf_t rw_flags;
__u32 fsync_flags;
__u16 poll_events; /* compatibility */
__u32 poll32_events; /* word-reversed for BE */
__u32 sync_range_flags;
__u32 msg_flags;
__u32 timeout_flags;
__u32 accept_flags;
__u32 cancel_flags;
__u32 open_flags;
__u32 statx_flags;
__u32 fadvise_advice;
__u32 splice_flags;
__u32 rename_flags;
__u32 unlink_flags;
__u32 hardlink_flags;
__u32 xattr_flags;
__u32 msg_ring_flags;
__u32 uring_cmd_flags;
__u32 waitid_flags;
__u32 futex_flags;
__u32 install_fd_flags;
__u32 nop_flags;
};
__u64 user_data; /* data to be passed back at completion time */
/* pack this to avoid bogus arm OABI complaints */
union {
/* index into fixed buffers, if used */
__u16 buf_index;
/* for grouped buffer selection */
__u16 buf_group;
} __attribute__((packed));
/* personality to use, if used */
__u16 personality;
union {
__s32 splice_fd_in;
__u32 file_index;
__u32 optlen;
struct {
__u16 addr_len;
__u16 __pad3[1];
};
};
union {
struct {
__u64 addr3;
__u64 __pad2[1];
};
__u64 optval;
/*
* If the ring is initialized with IORING_SETUP_SQE128, then
* this field is used for 80 bytes of arbitrary command data
*/
__u8 cmd[0];
};
};
The _opcode_ describes the operation to be performed. It can be one
of:
**IORING_OP_NOP**
Do not perform any I/O. This is useful for testing the
performance of the io_uring implementation itself.
**IORING_OP_READV**
**IORING_OP_WRITEV**
Vectored read and write operations, similar to [preadv2(2)](../man2/preadv2.2.html)
and [pwritev2(2)](../man2/pwritev2.2.html). If the file is not seekable, _off_ must be
set to zero or -1.
**IORING_OP_READ_FIXED**
**IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED**
Read from or write to pre-mapped buffers. See
[io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html) for details on how to setup a context
for fixed reads and writes.
**IORING_OP_FSYNC**
File sync. See also [fsync(2)](../man2/fsync.2.html). Optionally _off_ and _len_ can
be used to specify a range within the file to be synced
rather than syncing the entire file, which is the default
behavior. Note that, while I/O is initiated in the order
in which it appears in the submission queue, completions
are unordered. For example, an application which places a
write I/O followed by an fsync in the submission queue
cannot expect the fsync to apply to the write. The two
operations execute in parallel, so the fsync may complete
before the write is issued to the storage. The same is
also true for previously issued writes that have not
completed prior to the fsync. To enforce ordering one may
utilize linked SQEs, **IOSQE_IO_DRAIN** or wait for the arrival
of CQEs of requests which have to be ordered before a given
request before submitting its SQE.
**IORING_OP_POLL_ADD**
Poll the _fd_ specified in the submission queue entry for the
events specified in the _pollevents_ field. Unlike poll or
epoll without **EPOLLONESHOT**, by default this interface
always works in one shot mode. That is, once the poll
operation is completed, it will have to be resubmitted.
If **IORING_POLL_ADD_MULTI** is set in the SQE _len_ field, then
the poll will work in multi shot mode instead. That means
it'll repatedly trigger when the requested event becomes
true, and hence multiple CQEs can be generated from this
single SQE. The CQE _flags_ field will have **IORING_CQE_F_MORE**
set on completion if the application should expect further
CQE entries from the original request. If this flag isn't
set on completion, then the poll request has been
terminated and no further events will be generated. This
mode is available since 5.13.
This command works like an async [poll(2)](../man2/poll.2.html) and the completion
event result is the returned mask of events.
Without **IORING_POLL_ADD_MULTI** and the initial poll
operation with **IORING_POLL_ADD_MULTI** the operation is level
triggered, i.e. if there is data ready or events pending
etc. at the time of submission a corresponding CQE will be
posted. Potential further completions beyond the first
caused by a **IORING_POLL_ADD_MULTI** are edge triggered.
**IORING_OP_POLL_REMOVE**
Remove or update an existing poll request. If found, the
_res_ field of the _struct iouringcqe_ will contain 0. If
not found, _res_ will contain **-ENOENT,** or **-EALREADY** if the
poll request was in the process of completing already.
If **IORING_POLL_UPDATE_EVENTS** is set in the SQE _len_ field,
then the request will update an existing poll request with
the mask of events passed in with this request. The lookup
is based on the _userdata_ field of the original SQE
submitted, and this values is passed in the _addr_ field of
the SQE. If **IORING_POLL_UPDATE_USER_DATA** is set in the SQE
_len_ field, then the request will update the _userdata_ of an
existing poll request based on the value passed in the _off_
field. Updating an existing poll is available since 5.13.
**IORING_OP_EPOLL_CTL**
Add, remove or modify entries in the interest list of
[epoll(7)](../man7/epoll.7.html). See [epoll_ctl(2)](../man2/epoll%5Fctl.2.html) for details of the system call.
_fd_ holds the file descriptor that represents the epoll
instance, _off_ holds the file descriptor to add, remove or
modify, _len_ holds the operation ( **EPOLL_CTL_ADD**,
**EPOLL_CTL_DEL**, **EPOLL_CTL_MOD**) to perform and, _addr_ holds a
pointer to the _epollevent_ structure. Available since 5.6.
**IORING_OP_SYNC_FILE_RANGE**
Issue the equivalent of a **sync_file_range** (2) on the file
descriptor. The _fd_ field is the file descriptor to sync,
the _off_ field holds the offset in bytes, the _len_ field
holds the length in bytes, and the _syncrangeflags_ field
holds the flags for the command. See also
[sync_file_range(2)](../man2/sync%5Ffile%5Frange.2.html) for the general description of the
related system call. Available since 5.2.
**IORING_OP_SENDMSG**
Issue the equivalent of a [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) system call. _fd_ must
be set to the socket file descriptor, _addr_ must contain a
pointer to the msghdr structure, and _msgflags_ holds the
flags associated with the system call. See also [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html)
for the general description of the related system call.
Available since 5.3.
This command also supports the following modifiers in
_ioprio:_
**IORING_RECVSEND_POLL_FIRST** If set, io_uring will
assume the socket is currently full and attempting to
send data will be unsuccessful. For this case,
io_uring will arm internal poll and trigger a send of
the data when there is enough space available. This
initial send attempt can be wasteful for the case
where the socket is expected to be full, setting this
flag will bypass the initial send attempt and go
straight to arming poll. If poll does indicate that
data can be sent, the operation will proceed.
**IORING_OP_RECVMSG**
Works just like IORING_OP_SENDMSG, except for [recvmsg(2)](../man2/recvmsg.2.html)
instead. See the description of IORING_OP_SENDMSG.
Available since 5.3.
This command also supports the following modifiers in
_ioprio:_
**IORING_RECVSEND_POLL_FIRST** If set, io_uring will
assume the socket is currently empty and attempting to
receive data will be unsuccessful. For this case,
io_uring will arm internal poll and trigger a receive
of the data when the socket has data to be read. This
initial receive attempt can be wasteful for the case
where the socket is expected to be empty, setting this
flag will bypass the initial receive attempt and go
straight to arming poll. If poll does indicate that
data is ready to be received, the operation will
proceed.
**IORING_OP_SEND**
Issue the equivalent of a [send(2)](../man2/send.2.html) system call. _fd_ must be
set to the socket file descriptor, _addr_ must contain a
pointer to the buffer, _len_ denotes the length of the buffer
to send, and _msgflags_ holds the flags associated with the
system call. See also [send(2)](../man2/send.2.html) for the general description
of the related system call. Available since 5.6.
This command also supports the following modifiers in
_ioprio:_
**IORING_RECVSEND_POLL_FIRST** If set, io_uring will
assume the socket is currently full and attempting to
send data will be unsuccessful. For this case,
io_uring will arm internal poll and trigger a send of
the data when there is enough space available. This
initial send attempt can be wasteful for the case
where the socket is expected to be full, setting this
flag will bypass the initial send attempt and go
straight to arming poll. If poll does indicate that
data can be sent, the operation will proceed.
**IORING_OP_RECV**
Works just like IORING_OP_SEND, except for [recv(2)](../man2/recv.2.html) instead.
See the description of IORING_OP_SEND. Available since 5.6.
This command also supports the following modifiers in
_ioprio:_
**IORING_RECVSEND_POLL_FIRST** If set, io_uring will
assume the socket is currently empty and attempting to
receive data will be unsuccessful. For this case,
io_uring will arm internal poll and trigger a receive
of the data when the socket has data to be read. This
initial receive attempt can be wasteful for the case
where the socket is expected to be empty, setting this
flag will bypass the initial receive attempt and go
straight to arming poll. If poll does indicate that
data is ready to be received, the operation will
proceed.
**IORING_OP_TIMEOUT**
This command will register a timeout operation. The _addr_
field must contain a pointer to a struct __kernel_timespec
structure, _len_ must contain 1 to signify one
__kernel_timespec structure, _timeoutflags_ may contain
**IORING_TIMEOUT_ABS** for an absolute timeout value, or 0 for
a relative timeout. _off_ may contain a completion event
count. A timeout will trigger a wakeup event on the
completion ring for anyone waiting for events. A timeout
condition is met when either the specified timeout expires,
or the specified number of events have completed. Either
condition will trigger the event. If set to 0, completed
events are not counted, which effectively acts like a
timer. io_uring timeouts use the **CLOCK_MONOTONIC** as the
default clock source. The request will complete with **-ETIME**
if the timeout got completed through expiration of the
timer, or _0_ if the timeout got completed through requests
completing on their own. If the timeout was canceled before
it expired, the request will complete with **-ECANCELED.**
Available since 5.4.
Since 5.15, this command also supports the following
modifiers in _timeoutflags:_
**IORING_TIMEOUT_BOOTTIME** If set, then the clocksource
used is **CLOCK_BOOTTIME** instead of **CLOCK_MONOTONIC**.
This clocksource differs in that it includes time
elapsed if the system was suspend while having a
timeout request in-flight.
**IORING_TIMEOUT_REALTIME** If set, then the clocksource
used is **CLOCK_REALTIME** instead of **CLOCK_MONOTONIC**.
Since 5.16, **IORING_TIMEOUT_ETIME_SUCCESS** can be set in
_timeoutflags_, which will result in the expiration of the
timer and subsequent completion with **-ETIME** not being
interpreted as an error. This is mostly relevant for linked
SQEs, as subsequent requests in the chain would not get
canceled by the timeout, if this flag is set. See
**IOSQE_IO_LINK** for more details on linked SQEs.
Since 6.4, **IORING_TIMEOUT_MULTISHOT** can be set in
_timeoutflags_, which will result in the timer producing
multiple consecutive completions like other multi shot
operations e.g. **IORING_OP_READ_MULTISHOT** or
**IORING_POLL_ADD_MULTI**. _off_ must be set to the amount of
desired completions. **IORING_TIMEOUT_MULTISHOT** must not be
used with **IORING_TIMEOUT_ABS**.
**IORING_OP_TIMEOUT_REMOVE**
If _timeoutflags_ are zero, then it attempts to remove an
existing timeout operation. _addr_ must contain the
_userdata_ field of the previously issued timeout operation.
If the specified timeout request is found and canceled
successfully, this request will terminate with a result
value of _0_ If the timeout request was found but expiration
was already in progress, this request will terminate with a
result value of **-EBUSY** If the timeout request wasn't found,
the request will terminate with a result value of **-ENOENT**
Available since 5.5.
If _timeoutflags_ contain **IORING_TIMEOUT_UPDATE**, instead of
removing an existing operation, it updates it. _addr_ and
return values are same as before. _addr2_ field must contain
a pointer to a struct __kernel_timespec structure.
_timeoutflags_ may also contain IORING_TIMEOUT_ABS, in which
case the value given is an absolute one, not a relative
one. Available since 5.11.
**IORING_OP_ACCEPT**
Issue the equivalent of an [accept4(2)](../man2/accept4.2.html) system call. _fd_ must
be set to the socket file descriptor, _addr_ must contain the
pointer to the sockaddr structure, and _addr2_ must contain a
pointer to the socklen_t addrlen field. Flags can be passed
using the _acceptflags_ field. See also [accept4(2)](../man2/accept4.2.html) for the
general description of the related system call. Available
since 5.5.
If the _fileindex_ field is set to a positive number, the
file won't be installed into the normal file table as usual
but will be placed into the fixed file table at index
_fileindex_ - 1. In this case, instead of returning a file
descriptor, the result will contain either 0 on success or
an error. If the index points to a valid empty slot, the
installation is guaranteed to not fail. If there is already
a file in the slot, it will be replaced, similar to
**IORING_OP_FILES_UPDATE.** Please note that only io_uring has
access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
**IOSQE_FIXED_FILE** and **IORING_REGISTER_FILES**.
Available since 5.5.
**IORING_OP_ASYNC_CANCEL**
Attempt to cancel an already issued request. _addr_ must
contain the _userdata_ field of the request that should be
canceled. The cancelation request will complete with one of
the following results codes. If found, the _res_ field of the
cqe will contain 0. If not found, _res_ will contain **-ENOENT**.
If found and attempted canceled, the _res_ field will contain
**-EALREADY**. In this case, the request may or may not
terminate. In general, requests that are interruptible
(like socket IO) will get canceled, while disk IO requests
cannot be canceled if already started. Available since
5.5.
**IORING_OP_LINK_TIMEOUT**
This request must be linked with another request through
**IOSQE_IO_LINK** which is described below. Unlike
**IORING_OP_TIMEOUT**, **IORING_OP_LINK_TIMEOUT** acts on the
linked request, not the completion queue. The format of the
command is otherwise like **IORING_OP_TIMEOUT**, except there's
no completion event count as it's tied to a specific
request. If used, the timeout specified in the command
will cancel the linked command, unless the linked command
completes before the timeout. The timeout will complete
with **-ETIME** if the timer expired and the linked request was
attempted canceled, or **-ECANCELED** if the timer got canceled
because of completion of the linked request. Like
**IORING_OP_TIMEOUT** the clock source used is **CLOCK_MONOTONIC**
Available since 5.5.
**IORING_OP_CONNECT**
Issue the equivalent of a [connect(2)](../man2/connect.2.html) system call. _fd_ must
be set to the socket file descriptor, _addr_ must contain the
const pointer to the sockaddr structure, and _off_ must
contain the socklen_t addrlen field. See also [connect(2)](../man2/connect.2.html)
for the general description of the related system call.
Available since 5.5.
**IORING_OP_FALLOCATE**
Issue the equivalent of a [fallocate(2)](../man2/fallocate.2.html) system call. _fd_
must be set to the file descriptor, _len_ must contain the
mode associated with the operation, _off_ must contain the
offset on which to operate, and _addr_ must contain the
length. See also [fallocate(2)](../man2/fallocate.2.html) for the general description
of the related system call. Available since 5.6.
**IORING_OP_FADVISE**
Issue the equivalent of a [posix_fadvise(2)](../man2/posix%5Ffadvise.2.html) system call. _fd_
must be set to the file descriptor, _off_ must contain the
offset on which to operate, _len_ must contain the length,
and _fadviseadvice_ must contain the advice associated with
the operation. See also [posix_fadvise(2)](../man2/posix%5Ffadvise.2.html) for the general
description of the related system call. Available since
5.6.
**IORING_OP_MADVISE**
Issue the equivalent of a [madvise(2)](../man2/madvise.2.html) system call. _addr_
must contain the address to operate on, _len_ must contain
the length on which to operate, and _fadviseadvice_ must
contain the advice associated with the operation. See also
[madvise(2)](../man2/madvise.2.html) for the general description of the related
system call. Available since 5.6.
**IORING_OP_OPENAT**
Issue the equivalent of a [openat(2)](../man2/openat.2.html) system call. _fd_ is the
_dirfd_ argument, _addr_ must contain a pointer to the
_*pathname_ argument, _openflags_ should contain any flags
passed in, and _len_ is access mode of the file. See also
[openat(2)](../man2/openat.2.html) for the general description of the related system
call. Available since 5.6.
If the _fileindex_ field is set to a positive number, the
file won't be installed into the normal file table as usual
but will be placed into the fixed file table at index
_fileindex - 1._ In this case, instead of returning a file
descriptor, the result will contain either 0 on success or
an error. If the index points to a valid empty slot, the
installation is guaranteed to not fail. If there is already
a file in the slot, it will be replaced, similar to
**IORING_OP_FILES_UPDATE.** Please note that only io_uring has
access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
**IOSQE_FIXED_FILE** and **IORING_REGISTER_FILES**.
Available since 5.15.
**IORING_OP_OPENAT2**
Issue the equivalent of a [openat2(2)](../man2/openat2.2.html) system call. _fd_ is
the _dirfd_ argument, _addr_ must contain a pointer to the
_*pathname_ argument, _len_ should contain the size of the
open_how structure, and _off_ should be set to the address of
the open_how structure. See also [openat2(2)](../man2/openat2.2.html) for the general
description of the related system call. Available since
5.6.
If the _fileindex_ field is set to a positive number, the
file won't be installed into the normal file table as usual
but will be placed into the fixed file table at index
_fileindex - 1._ In this case, instead of returning a file
descriptor, the result will contain either 0 on success or
an error. If the index points to a valid empty slot, the
installation is guaranteed to not fail. If there is already
a file in the slot, it will be replaced, similar to
**IORING_OP_FILES_UPDATE**. Please note that only io_uring has
access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
**IOSQE_FIXED_FILE** and **IORING_REGISTER_FILES**.
Available since 5.15.
**IORING_OP_CLOSE**
Issue the equivalent of a [close(2)](../man2/close.2.html) system call. _fd_ is the
file descriptor to be closed. See also [close(2)](../man2/close.2.html) for the
general description of the related system call. Available
since 5.6. If the _fileindex_ field is set to a positive
number, this command can be used to close files that were
direct opened through **IORING_OP_OPENAT**, **IORING_OP_OPENAT2**,
or **IORING_OP_ACCEPT** using the io_uring specific direct
descriptors. Note that only one of the descriptor fields
may be set. The direct close feature is available since the
5.15 kernel, where direct descriptors were introduced.
**IORING_OP_STATX**
Issue the equivalent of a [statx(2)](../man2/statx.2.html) system call. _fd_ is the
_dirfd_ argument, _addr_ must contain a pointer to the
_*pathname_ string, _statxflags_ is the _flags_ argument, _len_
should be the _mask_ argument, and _off_ must contain a pointer
to the _statxbuf_ to be filled in. See also [statx(2)](../man2/statx.2.html) for the
general description of the related system call. Available
since 5.6.
**IORING_OP_READ**
**IORING_OP_WRITE**
Issue the equivalent of a [pread(2)](../man2/pread.2.html) or [pwrite(2)](../man2/pwrite.2.html) system
call. _fd_ is the file descriptor to be operated on, _addr_
contains the buffer in question, _len_ contains the length of
the IO operation, and _offs_ contains the read or write
offset. If _fd_ does not refer to a seekable file, _off_ must
be set to zero or -1. If _offs_ is set to **-1** , the offset
will use (and advance) the file position, like the [read(2)](../man2/read.2.html)
and [write(2)](../man2/write.2.html) system calls. These are non-vectored versions
of the **IORING_OP_READV** and **IORING_OP_WRITEV** opcodes. See
also [read(2)](../man2/read.2.html) and [write(2)](../man2/write.2.html) for the general description of
the related system call. Available since 5.6.
**IORING_OP_SPLICE**
Issue the equivalent of a [splice(2)](../man2/splice.2.html) system call.
_splicefdin_ is the file descriptor to read from,
_spliceoffin_ is an offset to read from, _fd_ is the file
descriptor to write to, _off_ is an offset from which to
start writing to. A sentinel value of **-1** is used to pass
the equivalent of a NULL for the offsets to [splice(2)](../man2/splice.2.html). _len_
contains the number of bytes to copy. _spliceflags_
contains a bit mask for the flag field associated with the
system call. Please note that one of the file descriptors
must refer to a pipe. See also [splice(2)](../man2/splice.2.html) for the general
description of the related system call. Available since
5.7.
**IORING_OP_TEE**
Issue the equivalent of a [tee(2)](../man2/tee.2.html) system call. _splicefdin_
is the file descriptor to read from, _fd_ is the file
descriptor to write to, _len_ contains the number of bytes to
copy, and _spliceflags_ contains a bit mask for the flag
field associated with the system call. Please note that
both of the file descriptors must refer to a pipe. See
also [tee(2)](../man2/tee.2.html) for the general description of the related
system call. Available since 5.8.
**IORING_OP_FILES_UPDATE**
This command is an alternative to using
**IORING_REGISTER_FILES_UPDATE** which then works in an async
fashion, like the rest of the io_uring commands. The
arguments passed in are the same. _addr_ must contain a
pointer to the array of file descriptors, _len_ must contain
the length of the array, and _off_ must contain the offset at
which to operate. Note that the array of file descriptors
pointed to in _addr_ must remain valid until this operation
has completed. Available since 5.6.
**IORING_OP_PROVIDE_BUFFERS**
This command allows an application to register a group of
buffers to be used by commands that read/receive data.
Using buffers in this manner can eliminate the need to
separate the poll + read, which provides a convenient point
in time to allocate a buffer for a given request. It's
often infeasible to have as many buffers available as
pending reads or receive. With this feature, the
application can have its pool of buffers ready in the
kernel, and when the file or socket is ready to
read/receive data, a buffer can be selected for the
operation. _fd_ must contain the number of buffers to
provide, _addr_ must contain the starting address to add
buffers from, _len_ must contain the length of each buffer to
add from the range, _bufgroup_ must contain the group ID of
this range of buffers, and _off_ must contain the starting
buffer ID of this range of buffers. With that set, the
kernel adds buffers starting with the memory address in
_addr,_ each with a length of _len._ Hence the application
should provide _len * fd_ worth of memory in _addr._ Buffers
are grouped by the group ID, and each buffer within this
group will be identical in size according to the above
arguments. This allows the application to provide different
groups of buffers, and this is often used to have
differently sized buffers available depending on what the
expectations are of the individual request. When submitting
a request that should use a provided buffer, the
**IOSQE_BUFFER_SELECT** flag must be set, and _bufgroup_ must be
set to the desired buffer group ID where the buffer should
be selected from. Available since 5.7.
**IORING_OP_REMOVE_BUFFERS**
Remove buffers previously registered with
**IORING_OP_PROVIDE_BUFFERS**. _fd_ must contain the number of
buffers to remove, and _bufgroup_ must contain the buffer
group ID from which to remove the buffers. Available since
5.7.
**IORING_OP_SHUTDOWN**
Issue the equivalent of a [shutdown(2)](../man2/shutdown.2.html) system call. _fd_ is
the file descriptor to the socket being shutdown, and _len_
must be set to the _how_ argument. No no other fields should
be set. Available since 5.11.
**IORING_OP_RENAMEAT**
Issue the equivalent of a [renameat2(2)](../man2/renameat2.2.html) system call. _fd_
should be set to the _olddirfd_, _addr_ should be set to the
_oldpath_, _len_ should be set to the _newdirfd_, _addr_ should be
set to the _oldpath_, _addr2_ should be set to the _newpath_, and
finally _renameflags_ should be set to the _flags_ passed in
to [renameat2(2)](../man2/renameat2.2.html). Available since 5.11.
**IORING_OP_UNLINKAT**
Issue the equivalent of a [unlinkat(2)](../man2/unlinkat.2.html) system call. _fd_
should be set to the _dirfd_, _addr_ should be set to the
_pathname_, and _unlinkflags_ should be set to the _flags_ being
passed in to [unlinkat(2)](../man2/unlinkat.2.html). Available since 5.11.
**IORING_OP_MKDIRAT**
Issue the equivalent of a [mkdirat(2)](../man2/mkdirat.2.html) system call. _fd_
should be set to the _dirfd_, _addr_ should be set to the
_pathname_, and _len_ should be set to the _mode_ being passed in
to [mkdirat(2)](../man2/mkdirat.2.html). Available since 5.15.
**IORING_OP_SYMLINKAT**
Issue the equivalent of a [symlinkat(2)](../man2/symlinkat.2.html) system call. _fd_
should be set to the _newdirfd_, _addr_ should be set to the
_target_ and _addr2_ should be set to the _linkpath_ being passed
in to [symlinkat(2)](../man2/symlinkat.2.html). Available since 5.15.
**IORING_OP_LINKAT**
Issue the equivalent of a [linkat(2)](../man2/linkat.2.html) system call. _fd_ should
be set to the _olddirfd_, _addr_ should be set to the _oldpath_,
_len_ should be set to the _newdirfd_, _addr2_ should be set to
the _newpath_, and _hardlinkflags_ should be set to the _flags_
being passed in to [linkat(2)](../man2/linkat.2.html). Available since 5.15.
**IORING_OP_MSG_RING**
Send a message to an io_uring. _fd_ must be set to a file
descriptor of a ring that the application has access to,
_len_ can be set to any 32-bit value that the application
wishes to pass on, and _off_ should be set any 64-bit value
that the application wishes to send. On the target ring, a
CQE will be posted with the _res_ field matching the _len_ set,
and a _userdata_ field matching the _off_ value being passed
in. This request type can be used to either just wake or
interrupt anyone waiting for completions on the target
ring, or it can be used to pass messages via the two
fields. Available since 5.18.
**IORING_OP_SOCKET**
Issue the equivalent of a [socket(2)](../man2/socket.2.html) system call. _fd_ must
contain the communication domain, _off_ must contain the
communication type, _len_ must contain the protocol, and
_rwflags_ is currently unused and must be set to zero. See
also [socket(2)](../man2/socket.2.html) for the general description of the related
system call. Available since 5.19.
If the _fileindex_ field is set to a positive number, the
file won't be installed into the normal file table as usual
but will be placed into the fixed file table at index
_fileindex_ - 1. In this case, instead of returning a file
descriptor, the result will contain either 0 on success or
an error. If the index points to a valid empty slot, the
installation is guaranteed to not fail. If there is already
a file in the slot, it will be replaced, similar to
**IORING_OP_FILES_UPDATE**. Please note that only io_uring has
access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
**IOSQE_FIXED_FILE** and **IORING_REGISTER_FILES**.
Available since 5.19.
**IORING_OP_URING_CMD**
Issues an asynchronous, per-file private operation, similar
to [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html). Further information may be found in the
dedicated man page of **IORING_OP_URING_CMD**.
Available since 5.19.
**IORING_OP_SEND_ZC**
Issue the zerocopy equivalent of a [send(2)](../man2/send.2.html) system call.
Similar to **IORING_OP_SEND**, but tries to avoid making
intermediate copies of data. Zerocopy execution is not
guaranteed and may fall back to copying. The request may
also fail with **-EOPNOTSUPP**, when a protocol doesn't support
zerocopy, in which case users are recommended to use
copying sends instead.
The _flags_ field of the first _struct iouringcqe_ may likely
contain **IORING_CQE_F_MORE**, which means that there will be a
second completion event / notification for the request,
with the _userdata_ field set to the same value. The user
must not modify the data buffer until the notification is
posted. The first cqe follows the usual rules and so its
_res_ field will contain the number of bytes sent or a
negative error code. The notification's _res_ field will be
set to zero and the _flags_ field will contain
**IORING_CQE_F_NOTIF**. The two step model is needed because
the kernel may hold on to buffers for a long time, e.g.
waiting for a TCP ACK, and having a separate cqe for
request completions allows userspace to push more data
without extra delays. Note, notifications are only
responsible for controlling the lifetime of the buffers,
and as such don't mean anything about whether the data has
atually been sent out or received by the other end. Even
errored requests may generate a notification, and the user
must check for **IORING_CQE_F_MORE** rather than relying on the
result.
_fd_ must be set to the socket file descriptor, _addr_ must
contain a pointer to the buffer, _len_ denotes the length of
the buffer to send, and _msgflags_ holds the flags
associated with the system call. When _addr2_ is non-zero it
points to the address of the target with _addrlen_
specifying its size, turning the request into a [sendto(2)](../man2/sendto.2.html)
system call equivalent.
Available since 6.0.
This command also supports the following modifiers in
_ioprio:_
**IORING_RECVSEND_POLL_FIRST** If set, io_uring will
assume the socket is currently full and attempting to
send data will be unsuccessful. For this case,
io_uring will arm internal poll and trigger a send of
the data when there is enough space available. This
initial send attempt can be wasteful for the case
where the socket is expected to be full, setting this
flag will bypass the initial send attempt and go
straight to arming poll. If poll does indicate that
data can be sent, the operation will proceed.
**IORING_RECVSEND_FIXED_BUF** If set, instructs io_uring
to use a pre-mapped buffer. The _bufindex_ field should
contain an index into an array of fixed buffers. See
[io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html) for details on how to setup a
context for fixed buffer I/O.
**IORING_OP_SENDMSG_ZC**
Issue the zerocopy equivalent of a [sendmsg(2)](../man2/sendmsg.2.html) system call.
Works just like **IORING_OP_SENDMSG**, but like
**IORING_OP_SEND_ZC** supports **IORING_RECVSEND_FIXED_BUF**. For
additional notes regarding zero copy see **IORING_OP_SEND_ZC**.
Available since 6.1
**IORING_OP_WAITID**
Issue the equivalent of a [waitid(2)](../man2/waitid.2.html) system call. _len_ must
contain the idtype being queried/waited for and _fd_ must
contain the 'pid' (or id) being waited for. _fileindex_ is
the 'options' being set (the child state changes to wait
for). _addr2_ is a pointer to siginfo_t, if any, being
filled in. See also [waitid(2)](../man2/waitid.2.html) for the general description
of the related system call. Available since 6.5.
**IORING_OP_SETXATTR**
**IORING_OP_GETXATTR**
**IORING_OP_FSETXATTR**
**IORING_OP_FGETXATTR**
Issue the equivalent of a [setxattr(2)](../man2/setxattr.2.html) or [getxattr(2)](../man2/getxattr.2.html) or
[fsetxattr(2)](../man2/fsetxattr.2.html) or [fgetxattr(2)](../man2/fgetxattr.2.html) system call. _addr_ must
contain a pointer to a buffer containing the name of the
extended attribute. _addr2_ must contain a pointer to a
buffer of maximum length _len_, in which the value of the
extended attribute is to be placed or is read from.
Additional flags maybe provided in _xattrflags_. For
[setxattr(2)](../man2/setxattr.2.html) or [getxattr(2)](../man2/getxattr.2.html) _addr3_ must contain a pointer to
the path of the file. For [fsetxattr(2)](../man2/fsetxattr.2.html) or [fgetxattr(2)](../man2/fgetxattr.2.html) _fd_
must contain the file descriptor of the file.
Available since 5.19.
**IORING_OP_BIND**
Issues the equivalent of the [bind(2)](../man2/bind.2.html) system call. _fd_ must
contain the file descriptor of the socket, _addr_ must
contain a pointer to the sockaddr struct containing the
address to assign and _addr2_ must contain the length of the
address.
Available since 6.11.
**IORING_OP_LISTEN**
Issues the equivalent of the [listen(2)](../man2/listen.2.html) system call. _fd_
must contain the file descriptor of the socket and _addr_
must contain the backlog parameter, i.e. the maximum amount
of pending queued connections.
Available since 6.11.
**IORING_OP_FTRUNCATE**
Issues the equivalent of the [ftruncate(2)](../man2/ftruncate.2.html) system call. _fd_
must contain the file descriptor of the file to truncate
and _off_ must contain the length to which the file will be
truncated.
Available since 6.9.
**IORING_OP_READ_MULTISHOT**
Like **IORING_OP_READ**, but similar to requests prepared with
[io_uring_prep_multishot_accept(3)](../man3/io%5Furing%5Fprep%5Fmultishot%5Faccept.3.html) additional reads and thus
CQEs will be performed based on this single SQE once there
is more data available. Is restricted to pollable files
and will fall back to single shot if the file does not
support **NOWAIT**. Like other multishot type requests, the
application should look at the CQE flags and see if
**IORING_CQE_F_MORE** is set on completion as an indication of
whether or not the read request will generate further CQEs.
Available since 6.7.
**IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAIT**
Issues the equivalent of the **futex_wait**(2) system call.
_addr_ must hold a pointer to the futex, _addr2_ must hold the
value to which the futex has to be changed so this caller
to **futex_wait**(2) can be woken by a call to **futex_wake**(2),
_addr3_ must hold the bitmask of this **futex_wait**(2) caller.
For a caller of **futex_wake**(2) to wake a waiter additionally
the bitmask of the waiter and waker must have at least one
set bit in common. _fd_ must contain additional flags passed
in.
Available since 6.7.
**IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAKE**
Issues the equivalent of the **futex_wake**(2) system call.
_addr_ must hold a pointer to the futex, _addr2_ must hold the
maximum number of waiters waiting on this futex to wake,
_addr3_ must hold the bitmask of this **futex_wake**(2) call. To
wake a waiter additionally the bitmask of the waiter and
waker must have at least one set bit in common. _fd_ must
contain additional flags passed in.
Available since 6.7.
**IORING_OP_FUTEX_WAITV**
Issues the equivalent of the **futex_waitv**(2) system call.
_addr_ must hold a pointer to the futexv struct, _len_ must
hold the length of the futexv struct, which may not be 0
and must be smaller than **FUTEX_WAITV_MAX** (as of 6.11 ==
128).
Available since 6.7.
**IORING_OP_FIXED_FD_INSTALL**
This operation is used to insert a registered file into the
regular process file table. Consequently _fd_ must contain
the file index and **IOSQE_FIXED_FILE** must be set. The
resulting regular fd is returned via cqe->res. Additional
flags may be passed in via _installfdflags_. Currently
supported flags are: **IORING_FIXED_FD_NO_CLOEXEC**, which
overrides a potentially set **O_CLOEXEC** flag set on the
initial file.
Available since 6.8.
The _flags_ field is a bit mask. The supported flags are:
**IOSQE_FIXED_FILE**
When this flag is specified, _fd_ is an index into the files
array registered with the io_uring instance (see the
**IORING_REGISTER_FILES** section of the [io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html)
man page). Note that this isn't always available for all
commands. If used on a command that doesn't support fixed
files, the SQE will error with **-EBADF**. Available since
5.1.
**IOSQE_IO_DRAIN**
When this flag is specified, the SQE will not be started
before previously submitted SQEs have completed, and new
SQEs will not be started before this one completes.
Available since 5.2.
**IOSQE_IO_LINK**
When this flag is specified, the SQE forms a link with the
next SQE in the submission ring. That next SQE will not be
started before the previous request completes. This, in
effect, forms a chain of SQEs, which can be arbitrarily
long. The tail of the chain is denoted by the first SQE
that does not have this flag set. Chains are not supported
across submission boundaries. Even if the last SQE in a
submission has this flag set, it will still terminate the
current chain. This flag has no effect on previous SQE
submissions, nor does it impact SQEs that are outside of
the chain tail. This means that multiple chains can be
executing in parallel, or chains and individual SQEs. Only
members inside the chain are serialized. A chain of SQEs
will be broken if any request in that chain ends in error.
io_uring considers any unexpected result an error. This
means that, eg, a short read will also terminate the
remainder of the chain. If a chain of SQE links is broken,
the remaining unstarted part of the chain will be
terminated and completed with **-ECANCELED** as the error code.
Available since 5.3.
**IOSQE_IO_HARDLINK**
Like IOSQE_IO_LINK, but it doesn't sever regardless of the
completion result. Note that the link will still sever if
we fail submitting the parent request, hard links are only
resilient in the presence of completion results for
requests that did submit correctly. **IOSQE_IO_HARDLINK**
implies **IOSQE_IO_LINK**. Available since 5.5.
**IOSQE_ASYNC**
Normal operation for io_uring is to try and issue an sqe as
non-blocking first, and if that fails, execute it in an
async manner. To support more efficient overlapped
operation of requests that the application knows/assumes
will always (or most of the time) block, the application
can ask for an sqe to be issued async from the start.
Available since 5.6.
**IOSQE_BUFFER_SELECT**
Used in conjunction with the **IORING_OP_PROVIDE_BUFFERS**
command, which registers a pool of buffers to be used by
commands that read or receive data. When buffers are
registered for this use case, and this flag is set in the
command, io_uring will grab a buffer from this pool when
the request is ready to receive or read data. If
successful, the resulting CQE will have **IORING_CQE_F_BUFFER**
set in the flags part of the struct, and the upper
**IORING_CQE_BUFFER_SHIFT** bits will contain the ID of the
selected buffers. This allows the application to know
exactly which buffer was selected for the operation. If no
buffers are available and this flag is set, then the
request will fail with **-ENOBUFS** as the error code. Once a
buffer has been used, it is no longer available in the
kernel pool. The application must re-register the given
buffer again when it is ready to recycle it (eg has
completed using it). Available since 5.7.
**IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS**
Don't generate a CQE if the request completes successfully.
If the request fails, an appropriate CQE will be posted as
usual and if there is no **IOSQE_IO_HARDLINK,** CQEs for all
linked requests will be omitted. The notion of
failure/success is opcode specific and is the same as with
breaking chains of **IOSQE_IO_LINK**. One special case is when
the request has a linked timeout, then the CQE generation
for the linked timeout is decided solely by whether it has
**IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS** set, regardless whether it timed out
or was canceled. In other words, if a linked timeout has
the flag set, it's guaranteed to not post a CQE.
The semantics are chosen to accommodate several use cases.
First, when all but the last request of a normal link
without linked timeouts are marked with the flag, only one
CQE per link is posted. Additionally, it enables
suppression of CQEs in cases where the side effects of a
successfully executed operation is enough for userspace to
know the state of the system. One such example would be
writing to a synchronisation file.
This flag is incompatible with **IOSQE_IO_DRAIN**. Using both
of them in a single ring is undefined behavior, even when
they are not used together in a single request. Currently,
after the first request with **IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS**, all
subsequent requests marked with drain will be failed at
submission time. Note that the error reporting is best
effort only, and restrictions may change in the future.
Available since 5.17.
_ioprio_ specifies the I/O priority. See [ioprio_get(2)](../man2/ioprio%5Fget.2.html) for a
description of Linux I/O priorities.
_fd_ specifies the file descriptor against which the operation will
be performed, with the exception noted above.
If the operation is one of **IORING_OP_READ_FIXED** or
**IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED**, _addr_ and _len_ must fall within the buffer
located at _bufindex_ in the fixed buffer array. If the operation
is either **IORING_OP_READV** or **IORING_OP_WRITEV**, then _addr_ points to
an iovec array of _len_ entries.
_rwflags_, specified for read and write operations, contains a
bitwise OR of per-I/O flags, as described in the [preadv2(2)](../man2/preadv2.2.html) man
page.
The _fsyncflags_ bit mask may contain either 0, for a normal file
integrity sync, or **IORING_FSYNC_DATASYNC** to provide data sync only
semantics. See the descriptions of **O_SYNC** and **O_DSYNC** in the
[open(2)](../man2/open.2.html) manual page for more information.
The bits that may be set in _pollevents_ are defined in _<poll.h>_,
and documented in [poll(2)](../man2/poll.2.html).
_userdata_ is an application-supplied value that will be copied
into the completion queue entry (see below). _bufindex_ is an
index into an array of fixed buffers, and is only valid if fixed
buffers were registered. _personality_ is the credentials id to use
for this operation. See [io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html) for how to register
personalities with io_uring. If set to 0, the current personality
of the submitting task is used.
Once the submission queue entry is initialized, I/O is submitted
by placing the index of the submission queue entry into the tail
of the submission queue. After one or more indexes are added to
the queue, and the queue tail is advanced, the [io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html)
system call can be invoked to initiate the I/O.
Completions use the following data structure:
/*
* IO completion data structure (Completion Queue Entry)
*/
struct io_uring_cqe {
__u64 user_data; /* sqe->data submission passed back */
__s32 res; /* result code for this event */
__u32 flags;
};
_userdata_ is copied from the field of the same name in the
submission queue entry. The primary use case is to store data
that the application will need to access upon completion of this
particular I/O. The _flags_ is used for certain commands, like
**IORING_OP_POLL_ADD** or in conjunction with **IOSQE_BUFFER_SELECT** or
**IORING_OP_MSG_RING**, see those entries for details. _res_ is the
operation-specific result, but io_uring-specific errors (e.g.
flags or opcode invalid) are returned through this field. They
are described in section **CQE ERRORS**.
For read and write opcodes, the return values match _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ values
documented in the [preadv2(2)](../man2/preadv2.2.html) and [pwritev2(2)](../man2/pwritev2.2.html) man pages, with _res_
holding the equivalent of _-errno_ for error cases, or the
transferred number of bytes in case the operation is successful.
Hence both error and success return can be found in that field in
the CQE. For other request types, the return values are documented
in the matching man page for that type, or in the opcodes section
above for io_uring-specific opcodes.RETURN VALUE top
[io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html) returns the number of I/Os successfully
consumed. This can be zero if _tosubmit_ was zero or if the
submission queue was empty. Note that if the ring was created with
**IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL** specified, then the return value will
generally be the same as _tosubmit_ as submission happens outside
the context of the system call.
The errors related to a submission queue entry will be returned
through a completion queue entry (see section **CQE ERRORS**), rather
than through the system call itself.
Errors that occur not on behalf of a submission queue entry are
returned via the system call directly. On such an error, a
negative error code is returned. The caller should not rely on
_[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ variable.ERRORS top
These are the errors returned by [io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html) system call.
**EAGAIN** The kernel was unable to allocate memory for the request,
or otherwise ran out of resources to handle it. The
application should wait for some completions and try again.
**EBADF** _fd_ is not a valid file descriptor.
**EBADFD** _fd_ is a valid file descriptor, but the io_uring ring is not
in the right state (enabled). See [io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html) for
details on how to enable the ring.
**EBADR** At least one CQE was dropped even with the
**IORING_FEAT_NODROP** feature, and there are no otherwise
available CQEs. This clears the error state and so with no
other changes the next call to [io_uring_enter(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fenter.2.html) will not
have this error. This error should be extremely rare and
indicates the machine is running critically low on memory.
It may be reasonable for the application to terminate
running unless it is able to safely handle any CQE being
lost.
**EBUSY** If the **IORING_FEAT_NODROP** feature flag is set, then **EBUSY**
will be returned if there were overflow entries,
**IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS** flag is set and not all of the
overflow entries were able to be flushed to the CQ ring.
Without **IORING_FEAT_NODROP** the application is attempting to
overcommit the number of requests it can have pending. The
application should wait for some completions and try again.
May occur if the application tries to queue more requests
than we have room for in the CQ ring, or if the application
attempts to wait for more events without having reaped the
ones already present in the CQ ring.
**EEXIST** The thread submitting the work is invalid. This may occur
if **IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS** and **IORING_SETUP_DEFER_TASKRUN** is
set, but the submitting thread is not the thread that
initially created or enabled the io_uring associated with
_fd._
**EINVAL** Some bits in the _flags_ argument are invalid.
**EFAULT** An invalid user space address was specified for the _sig_
argument.
**ENXIO** The io_uring instance is in the process of being torn down.
**EOPNOTSUPP**
_fd_ does not refer to an io_uring instance.
**EINTR** The operation was interrupted by a delivery of a signal
before it could complete; see [signal(7)](../man7/signal.7.html). Can happen while
waiting for events with **IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS.**
**EOWNERDEAD**
The ring has been setup with **IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL** and the sq
poll kernel thread has been killed.CQE ERRORS top
These io_uring-specific errors are returned as a negative value in
the _res_ field of the completion queue entry.
**EACCES** The _flags_ field or _opcode_ in a submission queue entry is
not allowed due to registered restrictions. See
[io_uring_register(2)](../man2/io%5Furing%5Fregister.2.html) for details on how restrictions work.
**EBADF** The _fd_ field in the submission queue entry is invalid, or
the **IOSQE_FIXED_FILE** flag was set in the submission queue
entry, but no files were registered with the io_uring
instance.
**EFAULT** buffer is outside of the process' accessible address space
**EFAULT IORING_OP_READ_FIXED** or **IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED** was specified
in the _opcode_ field of the submission queue entry, but
either buffers were not registered for this io_uring
instance, or the address range described by _addr_ and _len_
does not fit within the buffer registered at _bufindex_.
**EINVAL** The _flags_ field or _opcode_ in a submission queue entry is
invalid.
**EINVAL** The _bufindex_ member of the submission queue entry is
invalid.
**EINVAL** The _personality_ field in a submission queue entry is
invalid.
**EINVAL IORING_OP_NOP** was specified in the submission queue entry,
but the io_uring context was setup for polling
(**IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL** was specified in the call to
io_uring_setup).
**EINVAL IORING_OP_READV** or **IORING_OP_WRITEV** was specified in the
submission queue entry, but the io_uring instance has fixed
buffers registered.
**EINVAL IORING_OP_READ_FIXED** or **IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED** was specified
in the submission queue entry, and the _bufindex_ is
invalid.
**EINVAL IORING_OP_READV**, **IORING_OP_WRITEV**, **IORING_OP_READ_FIXED**,
**IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED** or **IORING_OP_FSYNC** was specified in
the submission queue entry, but the io_uring instance was
configured for IOPOLLing, or any of _addr_, _ioprio_, _off_, _len_,
or _bufindex_ was set in the submission queue entry.
**EINVAL IORING_OP_POLL_ADD** or **IORING_OP_POLL_REMOVE** was specified
in the _opcode_ field of the submission queue entry, but the
io_uring instance was configured for busy-wait polling
(**IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL**), or any of _ioprio_, _off_, _len_, or
_bufindex_ was non-zero in the submission queue entry.
**EINVAL IORING_OP_POLL_ADD** was specified in the _opcode_ field of the
submission queue entry, and the _addr_ field was non-zero.
**EOPNOTSUPP**
_opcode_ is valid, but not supported by this kernel.
**EOPNOTSUPP**
**IOSQE_BUFFER_SELECT** was set in the _flags_ field of the
submission queue entry, but the _opcode_ doesn't support
buffer selection.
**EINVAL IORING_OP_TIMEOUT** was specified, but _timeoutflags_
specified more than one clock source or
**IORING_TIMEOUT_MULTISHOT** was set alongside
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Pages that refer to this page:io_uring_enter2(2), io_uring_enter(2), io_uring_register(2), io_uring_setup(2), syscalls(2), io_uring_prep_send_zc(3), io_uring_prep_send_zc_fixed(3), io_uring_register_ring_fd(3), io_uring(7)