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authorThomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>2023-06-30 12:08:53 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-18 20:12:01 +0300
commit626e98cb0366e66bdc2088918aecabee1fc6c4b2 (patch)
treef8304287af8e22300aaf0c1bc4609e24aa825f3f
parentfc1878ec70ede56ee48f2d65525d4f7c6888b496 (diff)
downloadlinux-626e98cb0366e66bdc2088918aecabee1fc6c4b2.tar.xz
mm: make MEMFD_CREATE into a selectable config option
The memfd_create() syscall, enabled by CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE, is useful on its own even when not required by CONFIG_TMPFS or CONFIG_HUGETLBFS. Split it into its own proper bool option that can be enabled by users. Move that option into mm/ where the code itself also lies. Also add "select" statements to CONFIG_TMPFS and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS so they automatically enable CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE as before. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230630-config-memfd-v1-1-9acc3ae38b5a@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Tested-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/Kconfig5
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 18d034ec7953..19975b104bc3 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ source "fs/sysfs/Kconfig"
config TMPFS
bool "Tmpfs virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)"
depends on SHMEM
+ select MEMFD_CREATE
help
Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
@@ -240,6 +241,7 @@ config HUGETLBFS
bool "HugeTLB file system support"
depends on X86 || IA64 || SPARC64 || ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS || BROKEN
depends on (SYSFS || SYSCTL)
+ select MEMFD_CREATE
help
hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
@@ -264,9 +266,6 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON
enable HVO by default. It can be disabled via hugetlb_free_vmemmap=off
(boot command line) or hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap (sysctl).
-config MEMFD_CREATE
- def_bool TMPFS || HUGETLBFS
-
config ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
bool
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 09130434e30d..22acffd9009d 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1144,6 +1144,9 @@ config KMAP_LOCAL_NON_LINEAR_PTE_ARRAY
config IO_MAPPING
bool
+config MEMFD_CREATE
+ bool "Enable memfd_create() system call" if EXPERT
+
config SECRETMEM
default y
bool "Enable memfd_secret() system call" if EXPERT