Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:41:15 +0000 | Subject | [RFC PATCH 0/2] Providing mount for memfd_restricted() syscall | From | Ackerley Tng <> |
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Hello,
This patchset builds upon the memfd_restricted() system call that has been discussed in the ‘KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM’ patch series, at https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221202061347.1070246-1-chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com/T/#m7e944d7892afdd1d62a03a287bd488c56e377b0c
The tree can be found at: https://github.com/googleprodkernel/linux-cc/tree/restrictedmem-provide-mount-path
In this patchset, a modification to the memfd_restricted() syscall is proposed, which allows userspace to provide a mount, on which the file will be created and returned from the memfd_restricted().
Allowing userspace to provide a mount allows userspace to control various memory binding policies via tmpfs mount options, such as Transparent HugePage memory allocation policy through ‘huge=always/never’ and NUMA memory allocation policy through ‘mpol=local/bind:*’.
Dependencies: + Sean’s iteration of the ‘KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM’ patch series at https://github.com/sean-jc/linux/tree/x86/upm_base_support + Proposed fixes for these issues mentioned on the mailing list: + https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/diqzzga0fv96.fsf@ackerleytng-cloudtop-sg.c.googlers.com/
Future work/TODOs: + man page for the memfd_restricted() syscall + Support for per file Transparent HugePage allocation hints + Support for per file NUMA binding hints
Ackerley Tng (2): mm: restrictedmem: Allow userspace to specify mount_path for memfd_restricted selftests: restrictedmem: Check hugepage-ness of shmem file backing restrictedmem fd
include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/restrictedmem.h | 8 + mm/restrictedmem.c | 63 +++- tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + .../selftests/restrictedmem/.gitignore | 3 + .../testing/selftests/restrictedmem/Makefile | 14 + .../testing/selftests/restrictedmem/common.c | 9 + .../testing/selftests/restrictedmem/common.h | 8 + .../restrictedmem_hugepage_test.c | 344 ++++++++++++++++++ 9 files changed, 445 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/restrictedmem.h create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/restrictedmem/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/restrictedmem/Makefile create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/restrictedmem/common.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/restrictedmem/common.h create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/restrictedmem/restrictedmem_hugepage_test.c
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