CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace

CUSE enables implementing character devices in userspace.  With recent
additions of ioctl and poll support, FUSE already has most of what's
necessary to implement character devices.  All CUSE has to do is
bonding all those components - FUSE, chardev and the driver model -
nicely.

When client opens /dev/cuse, kernel starts conversation with
CUSE_INIT.  The client tells CUSE which device it wants to create.  As
the previous patch made fuse_file usable without associated
fuse_inode, CUSE doesn't create super block or inodes.  It attaches
fuse_file to cdev file->private_data during open and set ff->fi to
NULL.  The rest of the operation is almost identical to FUSE direct IO
case.

Each CUSE device has a corresponding directory /sys/class/cuse/DEVNAME
(which is symlink to /sys/devices/virtual/class/DEVNAME if
SYSFS_DEPRECATED is turned off) which hosts "waiting" and "abort"
among other things.  Those two files have the same meaning as the FUSE
control files.

The only notable lacking feature compared to in-kernel implementation
is mmap support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 9f7270f36b2a..525da2e8f73b 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ source "fs/autofs/Kconfig"
 source "fs/autofs4/Kconfig"
 source "fs/fuse/Kconfig"
 
+config CUSE
+        tristate "Character device in Userpace support"
+        depends on FUSE_FS
+        help
+          This FUSE extension allows character devices to be
+          implemented in userspace.
+
+          If you want to develop or use userspace character device
+          based on CUSE, answer Y or M.
+
 config GENERIC_ACL
         bool
         select FS_POSIX_ACL