util: add linux-only memfd fallback

Implement memfd_create() fallback if not available in system libc.
memfd_create() is still not included in glibc today, atlhough it's been
available since Linux 3.17 in Oct 2014.

memfd has numerous advantages over traditional shm/mmap for ipc memory
sharing with fd handler, which we are going to make use of for
vhost-user logging memory in following patches.

The next patches are going to introduce helpers to use best practices of
memfd usage and provide some compatibility fallback. memfd.c is thus
temporarily useless and eventually empty if memfd_create() is provided
by the system.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Thibaut Collet <thibaut.collet@6wind.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/memfd.h b/include/qemu/memfd.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b1fe6ad66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/qemu/memfd.h
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#ifndef QEMU_MEMFD_H
+#define QEMU_MEMFD_H
+
+#include "config-host.h"
+
+#ifndef F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE
+#define F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE 1024
+#endif
+
+#ifndef F_ADD_SEALS
+#define F_ADD_SEALS (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 9)
+#define F_GET_SEALS (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 10)
+
+#define F_SEAL_SEAL     0x0001  /* prevent further seals from being set */
+#define F_SEAL_SHRINK   0x0002  /* prevent file from shrinking */
+#define F_SEAL_GROW     0x0004  /* prevent file from growing */
+#define F_SEAL_WRITE    0x0008  /* prevent writes */
+#endif
+
+#endif /* QEMU_MEMFD_H */