cube(2): CUBE_OP_PUT takes a class mask

The mask is the writer's and is stamped once, at the moment the record's
class is known for certain; every later reader is spared re-deriving it. It
means nothing to this side — which bits are which class is a vocabulary's
business, and a kernel that interpreted one would be inventing a vocabulary.

0 is "no class", which is what every record written before the field existed
reads as, so a caller that does not classify is not writing a special value.
A store whose image is the legacy packed layout has no field to put a mask in
and drops it: that layout cannot carry a class, and saying otherwise would be
a lie about the bytes on disk.

The field is appended, so sizeof(cube_args) grows from 80 to 88 — still
distinct from the other three argument blocks, which is what the size-first
dispatch depends on.

drivers/cube/cube_syscall.c

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  * encoding, which must produce exactly the key a userspace reader decodes.
  */
 int cubelinux_kernel_put(const __u8 *space, __u64 x, __u64 y, __u64 z,
-			 const void *value, size_t len);
+			 const void *value, size_t len, __u16 flags);
 ssize_t cubelinux_kernel_get(const __u8 *space, __u64 x, __u64 y, __u64 z,
 			     void *buf, size_t len);
 int cubelinux_kernel_del(const __u8 *space, __u64 x, __u64 y, __u64 z);
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ static long cube_args_op(unsigned int op, void __user *uargs)
 			break;
 		}
 		ret = cubelinux_kernel_put(args.coord.space, args.coord.x,
-					   args.coord.y, args.coord.z, buf, args.len);
+					   args.coord.y, args.coord.z, buf, args.len,
+					   args.flags);
 		break;
 
 	case CUBE_OP_GET: {

drivers/cube/cubelinux_store.rs

@@ -1696,7 +1696,12 @@ fn ensure_boot_record() {
     }
 }
 
-/// `CUBE_OP_PUT`: store bytes at a coordinate.
+/// `CUBE_OP_PUT`: store bytes at a coordinate, under a class mask.
+///
+/// The mask is the writer's and is stamped here, once — this is the moment the record's class is
+/// known for certain, and every later reader is spared re-deriving it. It means nothing to this
+/// side: which bits are which class is a vocabulary's business, and a kernel that interpreted one
+/// would be inventing a vocabulary.
 ///
 /// # Safety
 /// `space` must point to 32 readable bytes; `value` to `len` readable bytes when `len` is
@@ -1709,6 +1714,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn cubelinux_kernel_put(
     z: u64,
     value: *const u8,
     len: usize,
+    flags: u16,
 ) -> i32 {
     ensure_boot_record();
     let (sp, key) = unsafe { coord_key(space, x, y, z) };
@@ -1725,7 +1731,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn cubelinux_kernel_put(
     let mutation = Mutation {
         space: sp,
         key,
-        flags: 0,
+        flags,
         value: bytes,
     };
     let (device, layout) = match device_and_layout() {

include/uapi/linux/cube.h

@@ -34,6 +34,20 @@ struct cube_args {
 				 * out: on -ERANGE, the bytes that would be needed;
 				 *      on success for CUBE_OP_GET, the bytes read.
 				 */
+	__u16 flags;		/* in: CUBE_OP_PUT only — the class mask to stamp on the
+				 * record. The mask is written where the record is written,
+				 * which is the moment its class is known for certain; a
+				 * reader never has to re-derive it. 0 is "no class", which
+				 * is what every record written before the field existed
+				 * reads as, so a caller that does not classify is not
+				 * writing a special value.
+				 *
+				 * A store whose image is the legacy packed layout has no
+				 * field to put a mask in, and drops it: that layout cannot
+				 * carry a class and saying otherwise would be a lie about
+				 * the bytes on disk.
+				 */
+	__u16 reserved;		/* must be 0 */
 };
 
 #define CUBE_OP_PUT	1	/* store bytes at a coordinate */