hugetlbfs: add O_TMPFILE support

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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 existi= ng 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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bc9383eff6e1374d79f3a92257ae829ba1e6ae60.1573285189.git.p.sarna@tlen.pl
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@tlen.pl>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Piotr Sarna 2019-11-30 17:56:43 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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