[PATCH] hugetlbfs: add O_TMPFILE support

[Piotr Sarna]

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 existing
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.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 1dcc57189382..277b7d231db8 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -815,8 +815,11 @@ static struct inode *hugetlbfs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb,
 /*
  * File creation. Allocate an inode, and we're done..
  */
-static int hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
-			struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t dev)
+static int do_hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
+			struct dentry *dentry,
+			umode_t mode,
+			dev_t dev,
+			bool tmpfile)
 {
 	struct inode *inode;
 	int error = -ENOSPC;
@@ -824,13 +827,22 @@ static int hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
 	inode = hugetlbfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, dir, mode, dev);
 	if (inode) {
 		dir->i_ctime = dir->i_mtime = current_time(dir);
-		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
+		if (tmpfile)
+			d_tmpfile(dentry, inode);
+		else
+			d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 		dget(dentry);	/* Extra count - pin the dentry in core */
 		error = 0;
 	}
 	return error;
 }
 
+static int hugetlbfs_mknod(struct inode *dir,
+			struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t dev)
+{
+	return do_hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode, dev, false);
+}
+
 static int hugetlbfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
 {
 	int retval = hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode | S_IFDIR, 0);
@@ -844,6 +856,12 @@ static int hugetlbfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mo
 	return hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode | S_IFREG, 0);
 }
 
+static int hugetlbfs_tmpfile(struct inode *dir,
+			struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
+{
+	return do_hugetlbfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode | S_IFREG, 0, true);
+}
+
 static int hugetlbfs_symlink(struct inode *dir,
 			struct dentry *dentry, const char *symname)
 {
@@ -1102,6 +1120,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations hugetlbfs_dir_inode_operations = {
 	.mknod		= hugetlbfs_mknod,
 	.rename		= simple_rename,
 	.setattr	= hugetlbfs_setattr,
+	.tmpfile	= hugetlbfs_tmpfile,
 };
 
 static const struct inode_operations hugetlbfs_inode_operations = {
-- 
2.21.0