hugetlbfs support for memfd_create was recently merged by Linus and
should be in the Linux 4.14 release. To request hugetlbfs support
a new memfd_create flag (MFD_HUGETLB) was added.
This patch documents the following commit:
commit 749df87bd7bee5a79cef073f5d032ddb2b211de8
Author: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 6 16:24:16 2017 -0700
mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
man2/memfd_create.2 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/memfd_create.2 b/man2/memfd_create.2
index 4dfd1bb2d..b61254bb8 100644
--- a/man2/memfd_create.2
+++ b/man2/memfd_create.2
@@ -100,6 +100,33 @@ If this flag is not set, the initial set of seals will be
meaning that no other seals can be set on the file.
.\" FIXME Why is the MFD_ALLOW_SEALING behavior not simply the default?
.\" Is it worth adding some text explaining this?
+.TP
+.BR MFD_HUGETLB " (since Linux 4.14)"
+The anonymous file will be created in the hugetlbfs filesystem using
+huge pages. See the Linux kernel source file
+.I Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+for more information about hugetlbfs. The hugetlbfs filesystem does
+not support file sealing operations. Therefore, specifying both
+.B MFD_HUGETLB
+and
+.B MFD_ALLOW_SEALING
+will result in an error
+.RB (EINVAL)
+being returned.
+
+.TP
+.BR MFD_HUGE_2MB ", " MFD_HUGE_1GB ", " "..."
+Used in conjunction with
+.B MFD_HUGETLB
+to select alternative hugetlb page sizes (respectively, 2 MB, 1 GB, ...)
+on systems that support multiple hugetlb page sizes. Definitions for known
+huge page sizes are included in the header file
+.I <sys/memfd.h>.
+
+For details on encoding huge page sizes not included in the header file,
+see the discussion of the similarly named constants in
+.BR mmap (2).
+
.PP
Unused bits in
.I flags
--
2.13.5
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