mm: make MEMFD_CREATE into a selectable config option
The memfd_create() syscall, enabled by CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE, is useful on its own even when not required by CONFIG_TMPFS or CONFIG_HUGETLBFS. Split it into its own proper bool option that can be enabled by users. Move that option into mm/ where the code itself also lies. Also add "select" statements to CONFIG_TMPFS and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS so they automatically enable CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE as before. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230630-config-memfd-v1-1-9acc3ae38b5a@weissschuh.netSigned-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Tested-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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