On 06.07.22 10:20, Chao Peng wrote: > Normally, a write to unallocated space of a file or the hole of a sparse > file automatically causes space allocation, for memfd, this equals to > memory allocation. This new seal prevents such automatically allocating, > either this is from a direct write() or a write on the previously > mmap-ed area. The seal does not prevent fallocate() so an explicit > fallocate() can still cause allocating and can be used to reserve > memory. > > This is used to prevent unintentional allocation from userspace on a > stray or careless write and any intentional allocation should use an > explicit fallocate(). One of the main usecases is to avoid memory double > allocation for confidential computing usage where we use two memfds to > back guest memory and at a single point only one memfd is alive and we > want to prevent memory allocation for the other memfd which may have > been mmap-ed previously. More discussion can be found at: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/6/14/1255 > > Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 1 + > mm/memfd.c | 3 ++- > mm/shmem.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- > 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h > index 2f86b2ad6d7e..98bdabc8e309 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h > @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ > #define F_SEAL_GROW 0x0004 /* prevent file from growing */ > #define F_SEAL_WRITE 0x0008 /* prevent writes */ > #define F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE 0x0010 /* prevent future writes while mapped */ > +#define F_SEAL_AUTO_ALLOCATE 0x0020 /* prevent allocation for writes */ Why only "on writes" and not "on reads". IIRC, shmem doesn't support the shared zeropage, so you'll simply allocate a new page via read() or on read faults. Also, I *think* you can place pages via userfaultfd into shmem. Not sure if that would count "auto alloc", but it would certainly bypass fallocate(). -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
