SchOS/include/file.h
Nexoniarz a79dfac32b memfd: a shared memory object you reach by descriptor
Gate 1, item 2, and the thing a Wayland buffer crosses on.

memfd_create(2) is the same segment machinery shmget() already had -- pages,
refcounts, no_free VMAs, the fork and exit accounting -- reached by
**descriptor** rather than by System V key. That difference is the entire
point and the reason it exists on Linux at all: two processes share memory by
passing the fd over a socket, so neither has to agree on a path or race to
invent a key. It is also why SCM_RIGHTS had to be item 1.

docs/plan/foundations.md proposed exactly this and it was right: what memfd
adds on top of shmget is a segment that starts empty and is sized by
ftruncate(), and a file that owns one reference to it. FD_MEMFD, and
read/write/lseek/fstat all learn about it -- a descriptor that refuses read()
is a surprise nobody needs.

Three things are refused rather than faked, each the honest version of
something this kernel cannot do:

  - MAP_PRIVATE on a memfd. Every caller is sharing on purpose; a private
    mapping of an anonymous object is an expensive MAP_ANONYMOUS.
  - Mapping past the end. Linux faults those pages in; there is no handler
    here that could.
  - Shrinking while mapped. Linux truncates the pages out from under the
    mapper; here a freed page would stay mapped to memory somebody else now
    owns.

Writable MAP_SHARED of a *real file* is still ENODEV. That needs a page cache,
and an anonymous object has no such contract to break -- which is precisely
why memfd is the narrow answer.

**cmd/memfdtest**, seventeen checks, written so a permissive implementation
cannot pass: an mmap that quietly returned private zeroed pages satisfies every
return code and fails the one assertion that matters, because the reader is a
different process. It ends with the combination the plan singled out -- a memfd
sent over a socketpair to a receiver that closes every inherited copy first,
maps only the descriptor that arrived, reads what the sender wrote and writes
back where the sender can see it.

Two things were found by writing that test, both of which had been refusing
everything that was not FD_INODE:

  - sys_fstat() never reached filestat(), so the memfd branch there was
    unreachable from the syscall that needs it. It also refused pipes and
    sockets, and returned -1 (which musl reads as EPERM) rather than an errno.
  - sys_lseek() the same, and SEEK_END needs a length that is not in an inode.

Verified: 40 consecutive runs leave MemFree at exactly the value it started
at -- 936656 kB before and after -- so nothing leaks across creation, dual
mapping, descriptor passing and exit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 09:47:31 +02:00

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struct file {
// FD_MEMFD: an anonymous shared memory object, the thing memfd_create(2)
// returns. It is a descriptor with no name and no inode behind it, which is
// the entire reason memfd exists -- two processes share memory by passing
// the descriptor, not by agreeing on a path or a System V key.
enum { FD_NONE, FD_PIPE, FD_INODE, FD_SOCKET, FD_MEMFD } type;
int ref; // reference count
char readable;
char writable;
// O_NONBLOCK. A property of the open file description, not of the
// descriptor, which is why it lives here and not in myproc()->ofile_flags --
// dup() shares it and F_SETFL on either fd changes it for both, exactly as
// POSIX says.
char nonblock;
struct pipe *pipe;
struct inode *ip;
struct socket *sock;
// The shared segment behind an FD_MEMFD, as an index into the table in
// kernel/sys/sys_mem.c. Not a pointer, because the segment table is where
// the reference counting lives and handing out pointers into it would
// invite somebody to keep one.
int memfd_seg;
uint64 off;
};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Filesystem operations
//
// One table per filesystem, chosen by iget() from the device number and hung
// off the inode. Everything above this line -- the syscall layer, exec, the
// page cache -- calls the wrappers in fs.c and never learns which filesystem it
// is talking to.
//
// A vtable rather than a chain of `if (dev == SCHFS_DEV)` because there are two
// filesystems today and there will be more: the whole point of the exercise is
// that adding one is a new table, not another branch in fifteen functions.
//
// Every hook takes an inode that is already locked, except ialloc (which has no
// inode yet) and iload (which is what makes one valid in the first place).
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
struct stat;
struct fs_ops {
const char *name;
// Fill in the type/size/link fields of a freshly iget()'d inode.
void (*iload)(struct inode *);
// Write those fields back to disk.
void (*istore)(struct inode *);
// The last link is gone and nobody has it open: release the object.
void (*ifree)(struct inode *);
int (*read)(struct inode *, int user_dst, uint64 dst, uint64 off, uint n);
int (*write)(struct inode *, int user_src, uint64 src, uint64 off, uint n);
// Set the length. Growing is allowed only where the filesystem can represent
// the gap; v1 cannot and ignores it.
void (*truncate)(struct inode *, uint64 newsize);
// Directory operations. `poff` is an opaque cookie identifying where the
// entry lives, meaningful only to the same filesystem's dirunlink.
struct inode *(*dirlookup)(struct inode *dp, char *name, uint *poff);
int (*dirlink)(struct inode *dp, char *name, uint64 inum);
int (*dirunlink)(struct inode *dp, char *name, uint off);
int (*dirempty)(struct inode *dp);
// Create an object with no name yet. The caller sets nlink and calls
// dirlink; until it does, the object is unreachable.
struct inode *(*ialloc)(uint dev, short type);
// Read directory entries into a getdents64-shaped stream. `off` is an opaque
// position that starts at 0 and is echoed back; returns bytes written, 0 at
// the end of the directory, or negative on error.
int (*getdents)(struct inode *dp, char *out, int cap, uint64 *off);
// The largest write this filesystem wants in one call, or 0 for "no limit".
//
// v1 needs one: a write has to fit in the on-disk log, so filewrite splits
// anything larger and each piece is its own transaction. That limit is a
// property of the journal, not of writing, and applying it to SchFS was
// actively harmful -- SchFS makes one transaction out of whatever it is
// handed, so chopping a 1 MB write into 6 KB pieces bought 170 commits and
// the flushes that go with them for nothing.
uint max_write;
};
// In-memory inode.
//
// `inum` and `size` are 64-bit because the filesystem underneath may be: SchFS
// object ids and file sizes are both uint64 on disk, and a 32-bit copy here
// would silently truncate them into a different file. The v1 filesystem uses a
// small fraction of the range and is unaffected.
struct inode {
uint dev;
uint64 inum;
int ref;
struct sleeplock lock;
int valid;
const struct fs_ops *ops; // chosen by iget from dev; never null once held
short type;
short major;
short minor;
// int, not short. SchFS stores a uint32 link count and this truncated it, so
// a file that passed 32767 names came back with a negative one -- and iput
// frees an object whose count reaches zero. Signed rather than unsigned on
// purpose: `nlink--` on a count that is somehow already zero should land
// somewhere a check can see it, not wrap to four billion.
int nlink;
uint64 size;
uint rwmode;
uint supermode;
uint showmode;
uint atime;
uint mtime;
uint ctime;
uint addrs[NDIRECT+3];
};
#define I_VALID 0x2
// Device numbers for filesystems that are not a raw disk. Real disks are 0..3,
// and these are deliberately far from them so a stray value never looks like a
// SchFS inode. Nothing on any disk records them -- they are runtime identities
// for the inode cache, so the numbering can be rearranged freely.
//
// Mounted SchFS volumes: SCHFS_DEV through SCHFS_DEV + SCHFS_VOL_SLOTS - 1.
//
// This was a single number, because there was a single volume: kmount.c held
// one `kvol` and every write entry point named it directly, so `mount -t schfs
// /dev/hdb /mnt` ignored its source argument entirely and handed back whichever
// disk the kernel had found at boot. Slot 0 is that boot volume, which is why
// SCHFS_DEV alone still means "the root" everywhere that only ever wanted it.
#define SCHFS_VOL_SLOTS 4
#define SCHFS_DEV 64
#define SCHFS_IS_VOL_DEV(d) \
((d) >= SCHFS_DEV && (d) < SCHFS_DEV + SCHFS_VOL_SLOTS)
// Mounted snapshots. Same block device, an older tree root, read-only.
//
// Each needs its own device number because an inode is identified by
// (dev, inum) and a snapshot's object ids are the *same numbers* as the live
// tree's -- one number would make the views alias in the inode cache and hand
// a reader whichever was cached first. So a slot is a device: SCHFS_SNAP_DEV
// through SCHFS_SNAP_DEV + SCHFS_SNAP_SLOTS - 1.
//
// Four rather than one because "one at a time" is an odd thing to explain and
// the cost is two scratch pages per slot, allocated on first use. Four rather
// than many because each is a device number and they are a fixed, small space.
#define SCHFS_SNAP_SLOTS 4
#define SCHFS_SNAP_DEV 96
#define SCHFS_IS_SNAP_DEV(d) \
((d) >= SCHFS_SNAP_DEV && (d) < SCHFS_SNAP_DEV + SCHFS_SNAP_SLOTS)
// Anything SchFS answers for, live volume or snapshot.
#define SCHFS_IS_ANY_DEV(d) (SCHFS_IS_VOL_DEV(d) || SCHFS_IS_SNAP_DEV(d))
// The synthetic /proc.
#define PROCFS_DEV 80
// The synthetic /dev. See kernel/fs/devfs.c.
#define DEVFS_DEV 81
// table mapping major device number to
// device functions
struct devsw {
int (*read)(struct inode*, uint64, char*, int);
int (*write)(struct inode*, uint64, char*, int);
// Optional. Returns 0 when a read would block, which is the only thing
// fileread needs to know to honour O_NONBLOCK without every device driver
// growing a flags argument. A device that omits this is treated as always
// ready, which is the right answer for a disk and for /dev/zero.
int (*ready)(struct inode*);
// Optional. The last descriptor for this open file is going away. A device
// that hands a program exclusive-feeling control of the hardware needs this
// to put the hardware back -- /dev/fb0 uses it to give the text console its
// screen back when whatever was drawing on it exits.
void (*close)(struct inode*);
// Optional. A descriptor has just been opened on this device. /dev/input
// uses it to discard events that arrived while nobody was listening -- see
// inputopen().
void (*open)(struct inode*);
};
extern struct devsw devsw[];
#define CONSOLE 1
// Major number of /dev/input/eventN. The minor is the device index.
#define INPUT_MAJOR 7