linux-kernel - [PATCH] kcmp: add separate Kconfig symbol for kcmp syscall

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Message-Id: <20200710075632.14661-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:56:31 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kcmp: add separate Kconfig symbol for kcmp syscall

The ability to check open file descriptions for equality (without
resorting to unreliable fstat() and fcntl(F_GETFL) comparisons) can be
useful outside of the checkpoint/restore use case - for example,
systemd uses kcmp() to deduplicate the per-service file descriptor
store.

Make it possible to have the kcmp() syscall without the full
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
---
I deliberately drop the ifdef in the eventpoll.h header rather than
replace with KCMP_SYSCALL; it's harmless to declare a function that
isn't defined anywhere.

 fs/eventpoll.c            |  4 ++--
 include/linux/eventpoll.h |  2 --
 init/Kconfig              | 11 +++++++++++
 kernel/Makefile           |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 12eebcdea9c8..b0313ce2df73 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ static struct epitem *ep_find(struct eventpoll *ep, struct file *file, int fd)
 	return epir;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+#ifdef CONFIG_KCMP_SYSCALL
 static struct epitem *ep_find_tfd(struct eventpoll *ep, int tfd, unsigned long toff)
 {
 	struct rb_node *rbp;
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ struct file *get_epoll_tfile_raw_ptr(struct file *file, int tfd,
 
 	return file_raw;
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_KCMP_SYSCALL */
 
 /**
  * Adds a new entry to the tail of the list in a lockless way, i.e.
diff --git a/include/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
index 8f000fada5a4..aa799295e373 100644
--- a/include/linux/eventpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ struct file;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
 struct file *get_epoll_tfile_raw_ptr(struct file *file, int tfd, unsigned long toff);
-#endif
 
 /* Used to initialize the epoll bits inside the "struct file" */
 static inline void eventpoll_init_file(struct file *file)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 0498af567f70..95e9486d4217 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1158,9 +1158,20 @@ config NET_NS
 
 endif # NAMESPACES
 
+config KCMP_SYSCALL
+	bool "kcmp system call"
+	help
+	  Enable the kcmp system call, which allows one to determine
+	  whether to tasks share various kernel resources, for example
+	  whether they share address space, or if two file descriptors
+	  refer to the same open file description.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
 	bool "Checkpoint/restore support"
 	select PROC_CHILDREN
+	select KCMP_SYSCALL
 	default n
 	help
 	  Enables additional kernel features in a sake of checkpoint/restore.
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index f3218bc5ec69..3daedba2146a 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ obj-y += rcu/
 obj-y += livepatch/
 obj-y += dma/
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) += kcmp.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_KCMP_SYSCALL) += kcmp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PROFILING) += profile.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_STACKTRACE) += stacktrace.o
-- 
2.23.0