io_uring: add flag for allocating a fully sparse direct descriptor space

Currently to setup a fully sparse descriptor space upfront, the app needs
to alloate an array of the full size and memset it to -1 and then pass
that in. Make this a bit easier by allowing a flag that simply does
this internally rather than needing to copy each slot separately.

This works with IORING_REGISTER_FILES2 as the flag is set in struct
io_uring_rsrc_register, and is only allow when the type is
IORING_RSRC_FILE as this doesn't make sense for registered buffers.

Reviewed-by: Hao Xu <howeyxu@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
index b7f02a55032a..36ec43dc7bf9 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
@@ -396,9 +396,15 @@ struct io_uring_files_update {
 	__aligned_u64 /* __s32 * */ fds;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Register a fully sparse file space, rather than pass in an array of all
+ * -1 file descriptors.
+ */
+#define IORING_RSRC_REGISTER_SPARSE	(1U << 0)
+
 struct io_uring_rsrc_register {
 	__u32 nr;
-	__u32 resv;
+	__u32 flags;
 	__u64 resv2;
 	__aligned_u64 data;
 	__aligned_u64 tags;