Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] mm: restructure memfd code | From | Khalid Aziz <> | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:42:57 -0600 |
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On 04/15/2018 12:21 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote: > With the addition of memfd hugetlbfs support, we now have the situation > where memfd depends on TMPFS -or- HUGETLBFS. Previously, memfd was only > supported on tmpfs, so it made sense that the code resided in shmem.c. > In the current code, memfd is only functional if TMPFS is defined. If > HUGETLFS is defined and TMPFS is not defined, then memfd functionality > will not be available for hugetlbfs. This does not cause BUGs, just a > lack of potentially desired functionality. > > Code is restructured in the following way: > - include/linux/memfd.h is a new file containing memfd specific > definitions previously contained in shmem_fs.h. > - mm/memfd.c is a new file containing memfd specific code previously > contained in shmem.c. > - memfd specific code is removed from shmem_fs.h and shmem.c. > - A new config option MEMFD_CREATE is added that is defined if TMPFS > or HUGETLBFS is defined. > > No functional changes are made to the code: restructuring only. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> > --- > fs/Kconfig | 3 + > fs/fcntl.c | 2 +- > include/linux/memfd.h | 16 +++ > include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 13 -- > mm/Makefile | 1 + > mm/memfd.c | 345 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > mm/shmem.c | 324 -------------------------------------------- > 7 files changed, 366 insertions(+), 338 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 include/linux/memfd.h > create mode 100644 mm/memfd.c
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
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