[PATCH] mm: make MEMFD_CREATE into a selectable config option

Thomas Weißschuh
2023-06-30T09:09:11Z

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.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
---
fs/Kconfig | 5 ++---
mm/Kconfig | 3 +++
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

---
base-commit: e55e5df193d247a38a5e1ac65a5316a0adcc22fa
change-id: 20230629-config-memfd-be6af03b7dca

Best regards,
--
Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>