Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] hugetlb: use f_mode & FMODE_HUGETLBFS to identify hugetlbfs files

[Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:53 AM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:12 PM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/12/20 11:53 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>
> > As a hugetlbfs developer, I do not know of a use case for interoperability
> > with overlayfs.  So yes, I am not too interested in making them work well
> > together.  However, if there was an actual use case I would be more than
> > happy to consider doing the work.  Just hate to put effort into fixing up
> > two 'special' filesystems for functionality that may not be used.
> >
> > I can't speak for overlayfs developers.
>
> As I said, I only know of tmpfs being upper layer as a valid use case.
>    Does that work with hugepages?  How would I go about testing that?

Simple, after enabling CONFIG_HUGETLBFS:

diff --git a/mount_union.py b/mount_union.py
index fae8899..4070c70 100644
--- a/mount_union.py
+++ b/mount_union.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def mount_union(ctx):
         snapshot_mntroot = cfg.snapshot_mntroot()
         if cfg.should_mount_upper():
             system("mount " + upper_mntroot + " 2>/dev/null"
-                    " || mount -t tmpfs upper_layer " + upper_mntroot)
+                    " || mount -t hugetlbfs upper_layer " + upper_mntroot)
         layer_mntroot = upper_mntroot + "/" + ctx.curr_layer()
         upperdir = layer_mntroot + "/u"
         workdir = layer_mntroot + "/w"

It fails colossally, because hugetlbfs, does not have write_iter().
It is only meant as an interface to create named maps of huge pages.
So I don't really see the use case for using it as upper.

Thanks,
Amir.