`kmem_alloc(size>PAGESIZE, KM_SLEEP)` is backed by `kmalloc()`, which
finds contiguous physical memory. If there isn't enough contiguous
physical memory available (e.g. due to physical page fragmentation), the
OOM killer will be invoked to make more memory available. This is not
ideal because processes may be killed when there is still plenty of free
memory (it just happens to be in individual pages, not contiguous runs
of pages). We have observed this when allocating the ~13KB `zfs_cmd_t`,
for example in `zfsdev_ioctl()`.
This commit changes the behavior of
`kmem_alloc(size>PAGESIZE, KM_SLEEP)` when there are insufficient
contiguous free pages. In this case we will find individual pages and
stitch them together using virtual memory. This is accomplished by
using `kvmalloc()`, which implements the described behavior by trying
`kmalloc(__GFP_NORETRY)` and falling back on `vmalloc()`.
The behavior of `kmem_alloc(KM_NOSLEEP)` is not changed; it continues to
use `kmalloc(GPF_ATOMIC | __GFP_NORETRY)`. This is because `vmalloc()`
may sleep.
Reviewed-by: Tony Nguyen <tony.nguyen@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#11461
This change updates the documentation to refer to the project
as OpenZFS instead ZFS on Linux. Web links have been updated
to refer to https://github.com/openzfs/zfs. The extraneous
zfsonlinux.org web links in the ZED and SPL sources have been
dropped.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#11007
Move the GFP flags kernel compat code from c file to kmem header.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
Closes#10424
The `pgprot` argument has been removed from `__vmalloc` in Linux 5.8,
being `PAGE_KERNEL` always now [1].
Detect this during configure and define a wrapper for older kernels.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/mm/vmalloc.c?h=next-20200605&id=88dca4ca5a93d2c09e5bbc6a62fbfc3af83c4fca
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
Closes#10422
As of cppcheck 1.82 warnings are issued when using the list_for_each_*
functions with an uninitialized variable. Functionally, this is fine
but to resolve the warning initialize these variables.
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#9732
Check for __GFP_RECLAIM instead of GFP_KERNEL because zfs modifies
IO and FS flags which breaks the check for GFP_KERNEL.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
Closes#9034
This patch implements use of kvmalloc for GFP_KERNEL allocations, which
may increase performance if the allocator is able to allocate physical
memory, if kvmalloc is available as a public kernel interface (since
v4.12). Otherwise it will simply fall back to virtual memory (vmalloc).
Also fix vmem_alloc implementation which can lead to slow allocations
since the first attempt with kmalloc does not make use of the noretry
flag but tells the linux kernel to retry several times before it fails.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
Closes#9034
In the FreeBSD kernel the strdup signature is:
```
char *strdup(const char *__restrict, struct malloc_type *);
```
It's unfortunate that the developers have chosen to change
the signature of libc functions - but it's what I have to
deal with.
Reviewed-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>
Closes#9433
Move platform specific Linux source under module/os/linux/
and update the build system accordingly. Additional code
restructuring will follow to make the common code fully
portable.
Reviewed-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Reviewed-by: Igor Kozhukhov <igor@dilos.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>
Closes#9206
