With hugetlbfs, a common pattern for mapping anonymous huge pages
is to create a temporary file first. Currently libraries like
libhugetlbfs and seastar create these with a standard mkstemp+unlink
trick, but it would be more robust to be able to simply pass
the O_TMPFILE flag to open(). O_TMPFILE is already supported by several
file systems like ext4 and xfs. The implementation simply uses the existing
d_tmpfile utility function to instantiate the dcache entry for the file.
Tested manually by successfully creating a temporary file by opening
it with (O_TMPFILE|O_RDWR) on mounted hugetlbfs and successfully
mapping 2M huge pages with it. Without the patch, trying to open
a file with O_TMPFILE results in -ENOSUP.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 1dcc57189382..277b7d231db8 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -815,8 +815,11 @@ static struct inode *hugetlbfs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb,
/*
* File creation. Allocate an inode, and we're done..
*/
-static int hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
- struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t dev)
+static int do_hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
+ struct dentry *dentry,
+ umode_t mode,
+ dev_t dev,
+ bool tmpfile)
{
struct inode *inode;
int error = -ENOSPC;
@@ -824,13 +827,22 @@ static int hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
inode = hugetlbfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, dir, mode, dev);
if (inode) {
dir->i_ctime = dir->i_mtime = current_time(dir);
- d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
+ if (tmpfile)
+ d_tmpfile(dentry, inode);
+ else
+ d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
dget(dentry); /* Extra count - pin the dentry in core */
error = 0;
}
return error;
}
+static int hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
+ struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t dev)
+{
+ return do_hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode, dev, false);
+}
+
static int hugetlbfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
{
int retval = hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode | S_IFDIR, 0);
@@ -844,6 +856,12 @@ static int hugetlbfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mo
return hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode | S_IFREG, 0);
}
+static int hugetlbfs_tmpfile(struct inode *dir,
+ struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
+{
+ return do_hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode | S_IFREG, 0, true);
+}
+
static int hugetlbfs_symlink(struct inode *dir,
struct dentry *dentry, const char *symname)
{
@@ -1102,6 +1120,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations hugetlbfs_dir_inode_operations = {
.mknod = hugetlbfs_mknod,
.rename = simple_rename,
.setattr = hugetlbfs_setattr,
+ .tmpfile = hugetlbfs_tmpfile,
};
static const struct inode_operations hugetlbfs_inode_operations = {
--
2.21.0
