io_uring can currently open/close regular files or fixed/direct
descriptors. Or you can instantiate a fixed descriptor from a regular
one, and then close the regular descriptor. But you currently can't turn
a purely fixed/direct descriptor into a regular file descriptor.
IORING_OP_FIXED_FD_INSTALL adds support for installing a direct
descriptor into the normal file table, just like receiving a file
descriptor or opening a new file would do. This is all nicely abstracted
into receive_fd(), and hence adding support for this is truly trivial.
Since direct descriptors are only usable within io_uring itself, it can
be useful to turn them into real file descriptors if they ever need to
be accessed via normal syscalls. This can either be a transitory thing,
or just a permanent transition for a given direct descriptor.
By default, new fds are installed with O_CLOEXEC set. The application
can disable O_CLOEXEC by setting IORING_FIXED_FD_NO_CLOEXEC in the
sqe->install_fd_flags member.
Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Put it with the filetable code, which is where it belongs. While doing
so, have the helpers take a ctx rather than an io_kiocb. It doesn't make
sense to use a request, as it's not an operation on the request itself.
It applies to the ring itself.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
