Linux provides SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT and __GFP_RECLAIMABLE flags to
mark memory allocations that can be freed via shinker calls. It
should allow kernel to tune and group such allocations for lower
memory fragmentation and better reclamation under pressure.
This patch marks as reclaimable most of ARC memory, directly
evictable via ZFS shrinker, plus also dnode/znode/sa memory,
indirectly evictable via kernel's superblock shrinker.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Allan Jude <allan@klarasystems.com>
Linux 6.10 change kmem_cache_alloc to be a macro, rather than a
function, such that the old #undef for it in spl-kmem-cache.c would
remove its definition completely, breaking the build.
This inverts the model used before. Rather than always defining the
kmem_cache_* macro, then undefining then inside spl-kmem-cache.c,
instead we make a special tag to indicate we're currently inside
spl-kmem-cache.c, and not defining those in macros in the first place,
so we can use the kernel-supplied kmem_cache_* functions to implement
spl_kmem_cache_*, as we expect.
For all other callers, we create the macros as normal and remove access
to the kernel's own conflicting names.
Signed-off-by: Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com>
Sponsored-by: https://despairlabs.com/sponsor/
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Linux has removed strlcpy in favour of strscpy. This implements a
fallback implementation of strlcpy for this case.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com>
Sponsored-by: https://despairlabs.com/sponsor/Closes#15805
On Linux x86_64, kmem cache can have size up to 4M,
however increasing spl_kmem_cache_slab_limit can lead
to crash due to the size check inconsistency.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Youzhong Yang <yyang@mathworks.com>
Closes#15757
It is unused for 3 years since #10576.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Closes#15507
When a kmem cache is exhausted and needs to be expanded a new
slab is allocated. KM_SLEEP callers can block and wait for the
allocation, but KM_NOSLEEP callers were incorrectly allowed to
block as well.
Resolve this by attempting an emergency allocation as a best
effort. This may fail but that's fine since any KM_NOSLEEP
consumer is required to handle an allocation failure.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Adam Moss <c@yotes.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Reviewed-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Reviewed-by: Brian Atkinson <batkinson@lanl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Youzhong Yang <yyang@mathworks.com>
Closes#14891
I recently gained the ability to run Clang's static analyzer on the
linux kernel modules via a few hacks. This extended coverage to code
that was previously missed since Clang's static analyzer only looked at
code that we built in userspace. Running it against the Linux kernel
modules built from my local branch produced a total of 72 reports
against my local branch. Of those, 50 were reports of logic errors and
22 were reports of dead code. Since we already had cleaned up all of
the previous dead code reports, I felt it would be a good next step to
clean up these dead code reports. Clang did a further breakdown of the
dead code reports into:
Dead assignment 15
Dead increment 2
Dead nested assignment 5
The benefit of cleaning these up, especially in the case of dead nested
assignment, is that they can expose places where our error handling is
incorrect. A number of them were fairly straight forward. However
several were not:
In vdev_disk_physio_completion(), not only were we not using the return
value from the static function vdev_disk_dio_put(), but nothing used it,
so I changed it to return void and removed the existing (void) cast in
the other area where we call it in addition to no longer storing it to a
stack value.
In FSE_createDTable(), the function is dead code. Its helper function
FSE_freeDTable() is also dead code, as are the CPP definitions in
`module/zstd/include/zstd_compat_wrapper.h`. We just delete it all.
In zfs_zevent_wait(), we have an optimization opportunity. cv_wait_sig()
returns 0 if there are waiting signals and 1 if there are none. The
Linux SPL version literally returns `signal_pending(current) ? 0 : 1)`
and FreeBSD implements the same semantics, we can just do
`!cv_wait_sig()` in place of `signal_pending(current)` to avoid
unnecessarily calling it again.
zfs_setattr() on FreeBSD version did not have error handling issue
because the code was removed entirely from FreeBSD version. The error is
from updating the attribute directory's files. After some thought, I
decided to propapage errors on it to userspace.
In zfs_secpolicy_tmp_snapshot(), we ignore a lack of permission from the
first check in favor of checking three other permissions. I assume this
is intentional.
In zfs_create_fs(), the return value of zap_update() was not checked
despite setting an important version number. I see no backward
compatibility reason to permit failures, so we add an assertion to catch
failures. Interestingly, Linux is still using ASSERT(error == 0) from
OpenSolaris while FreeBSD has switched to the improved ASSERT0(error)
from illumos, although illumos has yet to adopt it here. ASSERT(error ==
0) was used on Linux while ASSERT0(error) was used on FreeBSD since the
entire file needs conversion and that should be the subject of
another patch.
dnode_move()'s issue was caused by us not having implemented
POINTER_IS_VALID() on Linux. We have a stub in
`include/os/linux/spl/sys/kmem_cache.h` for it, when it really should be
in `include/os/linux/spl/sys/kmem.h` to be consistent with
Illumos/OpenSolaris. FreeBSD put both `POINTER_IS_VALID()` and
`POINTER_INVALIDATE()` in `include/os/freebsd/spl/sys/kmem.h`, so we
copy what it did.
Whenever a report was in platform-specific code, I checked the FreeBSD
version to see if it also applied to FreeBSD, but it was only relevant a
few times.
Lastly, the patch that enabled Clang's static analyzer to be run on the
Linux kernel modules needs more work before it can be put into a PR. I
plan to do that in the future as part of the on-going static analysis
work that I am doing.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Closes#14380
The Linux 5.16.14 kernel's coccicheck caught these. The semantic patch
that caught them was:
./scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/alloc_cast.cocci
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Closes#14372
This patch inserts the `static` keyword to non-global variables,
which where found by the analysis tool smatch.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tino Reichardt <milky-zfs@mcmilk.de>
Closes#13970
Coverity found a bug in `zfs_secpolicy_create_clone()` where it is
possible for us to pass an unterminated string when `zfs_get_parent()`
returns an error. Upon inspection, it is clear that using `strlcpy()`
would have avoided this issue.
Looking at the codebase, there are a number of other uses of `strncpy()`
that are unsafe and even when it is used safely, switching to
`strlcpy()` would make the code more readable. Therefore, we switch all
instances where we use `strncpy()` to use `strlcpy()`.
Unfortunately, we do not portably have access to `strlcpy()` in
tests/zfs-tests/cmd/zfs_diff-socket.c because it does not link to
libspl. Modifying the appropriate Makefile.am to try to link to it
resulted in an error from the naming choice used in the file. Trying to
disable the check on the file did not work on FreeBSD because Clang
ignores `#undef` when a definition is provided by `-Dstrncpy(...)=...`.
We workaround that by explictly including the C file from libspl into
the test. This makes things build correctly everywhere.
We add a deprecation warning to `config/Rules.am` and suppress it on the
remaining `strncpy()` usage. `strlcpy()` is not portably avaliable in
tests/zfs-tests/cmd/zfs_diff-socket.c, so we use `snprintf()` there as a
substitute.
This patch does not tackle the related problem of `strcpy()`, which is
even less safe. Thankfully, a quick inspection found that it is used far
more correctly than strncpy() was used. A quick inspection did not find
any problems with `strcpy()` usage outside of zhack, but it should be
said that I only checked around 90% of them.
Lastly, some of the fields in kstat_t varied in size by 1 depending on
whether they were in userspace or in the kernel. The origin of this
discrepancy appears to be 04a479f706 where
it was made for no apparent reason. It conflicts with the comment on
KSTAT_STRLEN, so we shrink the kernel field sizes to match the userspace
field sizes.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Closes#13876
Upon inspection of our code, I noticed that we assume that
__alloc_percpu() cannot fail, and while it probably never has failed in
practice, technically, it can fail, so we should handle that.
Additionally, we incorrectly assume that `taskq_create()` in
spl_kmem_cache_init() cannot fail. The same remark applies to it.
Lastly, `spl-init()` failures should always return negative error
values, but in some places, we are returning positive 1, which is
incorrect. We change those values to their correct error codes.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@alumni.stonybrook.edu>
Closes#13847
clang-15 emits the following error message for functions without
a prototype:
fs/zfs/os/linux/spl/spl-kmem-cache.c:1423:27: error:
a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated
in all versions of C [-Werror,-Wstrict-prototypes]
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Aidan Harris <me@aidanharr.is>
Closes#13421
69 CSTYLED BEGINs remain, appx. 30 of which can be removed if cstyle(1)
had a useful policy regarding
CALL(ARG1,
ARG2,
ARG3);
above 2 lines. As it stands, it spits out *both*
sysctl_os.c: 385: continuation line should be indented by 4 spaces
sysctl_os.c: 385: indent by spaces instead of tabs
which is very cool
Another >10 could be fixed by removing "ulong" &al. handling.
I don't foresee anyone actually using it intentionally
(does it even exist in modern headers? why did it in the first place?).
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Closes#12993
Evaluated every variable that lives in .data (and globals in .rodata)
in the kernel modules, and constified/eliminated/localised them
appropriately. This means that all read-only data is now actually
read-only data, and, if possible, at file scope. A lot of previously-
global-symbols became inlinable (and inlined!) constants. Probably
not in a big Wowee Performance Moment, but hey.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Closes#12899
For small objects the kernel's slab implementation is very fast and
space efficient. However, as the allocation size increases to
require multiple pages performance suffers. The SPL kmem cache
allocator was designed to better handle these large allocation
sizes. Therefore, on Linux the kmem_cache_* compatibility wrappers
prefer to use the kernel's slab allocator for small objects and
the custom SPL kmem cache allocator for larger objects.
This logic was effectively disabled for all architectures using
a non-4K page size which caused all kmem caches to only use the
SPL implementation. Functionally this is fine, but the SPL code
which calculates the target number of objects per-slab does not
take in to account that __vmalloc() always returns page-aligned
memory. This can result in a massive amount of wasted space when
allocating tiny objects on a platform using large pages (64k).
To resolve this issue we set the spl_kmem_cache_slab_limit cutoff
to 16K for all architectures.
This particular change does not attempt to update the logic used
to calculate the optimal number of pages per slab. This remains
an issue which should be addressed in a future change.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Nguyen <tony.nguyen@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#12152Closes#11429Closes#11574Closes#12150
Both were removed in 4fbdb10c7b ("remove
kmem_cache module parameter KMC_EXPIRE_AGE")
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Closes#12157
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
`KMC_KMEM` and `KMC_VMEM` are now unused since all SPL-implemented
caches are `KMC_KVMEM`.
KMC_KMEM: Given the default value of `spl_kmem_cache_kmem_limit`, we
don't use kmalloc to back the SPL caches, instead we use kvmalloc
(KMC_KVMEM). The flag, module parameter, /proc entries, and associated
code are removed.
KMC_VMEM: This flag is not used, and kvmalloc() is always preferable to
vmalloc(). The flag, /proc entries, and associated code are removed.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#10673
Remove dead code to make the implementation easier to understand.
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Closes#10650
Remove dead code to make the implementation easier to understand.
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Closes#10650
Remove dead code to make the implementation easier to understand.
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Closes#10650
Remove dead code to make the implementation easier to understand.
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Closes#10650
Remove dead code to make the implementation easier to understand.
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Closes#10650
By default, `spl_kmem_cache_expire` is `KMC_EXPIRE_MEM`, meaning that
objects will be removed from kmem cache magazines by
`spl_kmem_cache_reap_now()`.
There is also a module parameter to change this to `KMC_EXPIRE_AGE`,
which establishes a maximum lifetime for objects to stay in the
magazine. This setting has rarely, if ever, been used, and is not
regularly tested.
This commit removes the code for `KMC_EXPIRE_AGE`, and associated module
parameters.
Additionally, the unused module parameter
`spl_kmem_cache_obj_per_slab_min` is removed.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#10608
The SPL kmem_cache implementation provides a mechanism, `skc_reclaim`,
whereby individual caches can register a callback to be invoked when
there is memory pressure. This mechanism is used in only one place: the
ARC registers the `hdr_recl()` reclaim function. This function wakes up
the `arc_reap_zthr`, whose job is to call `kmem_cache_reap()` and
`arc_reduce_target_size()`.
The `skc_reclaim` callbacks are invoked only by shrinker callbacks and
`arc_reap_zthr`, and only callback only wakes up `arc_reap_zthr`. When
called from `arc_reap_zthr`, waking `arc_reap_zthr` is a no-op. When
called from shrinker callbacks, we are already aware of memory pressure
and responding to it. Therefore there is little benefit to ever calling
the `hdr_recl()` `skc_reclaim` callback.
The `arc_reap_zthr` also wakes once a second, and if memory is low when
allocating an ARC buffer. Therefore, additionally waking it from the
shrinker calbacks has little benefit.
The shrinker callbacks can be invoked very frequently, e.g. 10,000 times
per second. Additionally, for invocation of the shrinker callback,
skc_reclaim is invoked many times. Therefore, this mechanism consumes
significant amounts of CPU time.
The kmem_cache shrinker calls `spl_kmem_cache_reap_now()`, which,
in addition to invoking `skc_reclaim()`, does two things to attempt to
free pages for use by the system:
1. Return free objects from the magazine layer to the slab layer
2. Return entirely-free slabs to the page layer (i.e. free pages)
These actions apply only to caches implemented by the SPL, not those
that use the underlying kernel SLAB/SLUB caches. The SPL caches are
used for objects >=32KB, which are primarily linear ABD's cached in the
DBUF cache.
These actions (freeing objects from the magazine layer and returning
entirely-free slabs) are also taken whenever a `kmem_cache_free()` call
finds a full magazine. So there would typically be zero entirely-free
slabs, and the number of objects in magazines is limited (typically no
more than 64 objects per magazine, and there's one magazine per CPU).
Therefore the benefit of `spl_kmem_cache_reap_now()`, while nonzero, is
modest.
We also call `spl_kmem_cache_reap_now()` from the `arc_reap_zthr`, when
memory pressure is detected. Therefore, calling
`spl_kmem_cache_reap_now()` from the kmem_cache shrinker is not needed.
This commit removes the `skc_reclaim` mechanism, its only callback
`hdr_recl()`, and the kmem_cache shrinker callback.
Reviewed-By: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#10576
Move/add include of <linux/percpu_compat.h> to satisfy missing
requirements.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>
Closes#10568Closes#10569
OS-specific code (e.g. under `module/os/linux`) does not need to share
its code structure with any other operating systems. In particular, the
ARC and kmem code need not be similar to the code in illumos, because we
won't be syncing this OS-specific code between operating systems. For
example, if/when illumos support is added to the common repo, we would
add a file `module/os/illumos/zfs/arc_os.c` for the illumos versions of
this code.
Therefore, we can simplify the code in the OS-specific ARC and kmem
routines.
These changes do not impact system behavior, they are purely code
cleanup. The changes are:
Arenas are not used on Linux or FreeBSD (they are always `NULL`), so
`heap_arena`, `zio_arena`, and `zio_alloc_arena` can be removed, along
with code that uses them.
In `arc_available_memory()`:
* `desfree` is unused, remove it
* rename `freemem` to avoid conflict with pre-existing `#define`
* remove checks related to arenas
* use units of bytes, rather than converting from bytes to pages and
then back to bytes
`SPL_KMEM_CACHE_REAP` is unused, remove it.
`skc_reap` is unused, remove it.
The `count` argument to `spl_kmem_cache_reap_now()` is unused, remove
it.
`vmem_size()` and associated type and macros are unused, remove them.
In `arc_memory_throttle()`, use a less confusing variable name to store
the result of `arc_free_memory()`.
Reviewed-by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#10499
The SPL provides a wrapper for the kernel's shrinker callbacks, which
enables the ZFS code to interface with multiple versions of the shrinker
API's from different kernel versions. Specifically, Linux kernels 3.0 -
3.11 has a single "combined" callback, and Linux kernels 3.12 and later
have two "split" callbacks. The SPL provides a wrapper function so that
the ZFS code only needs to implement one version of the callbacks.
Currently the SPL's wrappers are designed such that the ZFS code
implements the older, "combined" callback. There are a few downsides to
this approach:
* The general design within ZFS is for the latest Linux kernel to be
considered the "first class" API.
* The newer, "split" callback API is easier to understand, because each
callback has one purpose.
* The current wrappers do not completely abstract out the differing
API's, so ZFS code needs `#ifdef` code to handle the differing return
values required for different kernel versions.
This commit addresses these drawbacks by having the ZFS code provide the
latest, "split" callbacks, and the SPL provides a wrapping function for
the older, "combined" API.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Closes#10502
A previous commit enabled the tracking of object allocations
in Linux-backed caches from the SPL layer for debuggability.
The commit is: 9a170fc6fe54f1e852b6c39630fe5ef2bbd97c16
Unfortunately, it also introduced minor performance regressions
that were highlighted by the ZFS perf test-suite. Within Delphix
we found that the regression would be from -1%, all the way up
to -8% for some workloads.
This commit brings performance back up to par by creating a
separate counter for those caches and making it a percpu in
order to avoid lock-contention.
The initial performance testing was done by myself, and the
final round was conducted by @tonynguien who was also the one
that discovered the regression and highlighted the culprit.
Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
Closes#10397
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
When growing the size of a (VMEM or KVMEM) kmem cache, spl_cache_grow()
always does taskq_dispatch(spl_cache_grow_work), and then waits for the
KMC_BIT_GROWING to be cleared by the taskq thread.
The taskq thread (spl_cache_grow_work()) does:
1. allocate new slab and add to list
2. wake_up_all(skc_waitq)
3. clear_bit(KMC_BIT_GROWING)
Therefore, the waiting thread can wake up before GROWING has been
cleared. It will see that the growing has not yet completed, and go
back to sleep until it hits the 100ms timeout.
This can have an extreme performance impact on workloads that alloc/free
more than fits in the (statically-sized) magazines. These workloads
allocate and free slabs with high frequency.
The problem can be observed with `funclatency spl_cache_grow`, which on
some workloads shows that 99.5% of the time it takes <64us to allocate
slabs, but we spend ~70% of our time in outliers, waiting for the 100ms
timeout.
The fix is to do `clear_bit(KMC_BIT_GROWING)` before
`wake_up_all(skc_waitq)`.
A future investigation should evaluate if we still actually need to
taskq_dispatch() at all, and if so on which kernel versions.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@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#9989
On kernels with KASAN enabled the following failure can be observed as
soon as the zfs module is loaded:
VERIFY(IS_P2ALIGNED(ptr, PAGE_SIZE)) failed
PANIC at spl-kmem-cache.c:228:kv_alloc()
The problem is kmalloc() has never guaranteed aligned allocations; this
requirement resulted in zfsonlinux/spl@8b45dda which removed all
kmalloc() usage in kv_alloc().
Until a GFP_ALIGNED flag (or equivalent functionality) is provided by
the kernel this commit partially reverts 66955885 and 6d948c35 to
prevent k(v)malloc() allocations in kv_alloc().
Reviewed-by: Kjeld Schouten <kjeld@schouten-lebbing.nl>
Reviewed-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: loli10K <ezomori.nozomu@gmail.com>
Closes#9813
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
This adds a new KMC_KVMEM flag was added to enforce use of the
kvmalloc allocator in kmem_cache_create even for large blocks, which
may also increase performance in some specific cases (e.g. zstd), too.
Default to KVMEM instead of VMEM in spl_kmem_cache_create.
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
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
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
Increase the minimum supported kernel version from 2.6.32 to 3.10.
This removes support for the following Linux enterprise distributions.
Distribution | Kernel | End of Life
---------------- | ------ | -------------
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | 3.2 | Apr 28, 2017
SLES 11 | 3.0 | Mar 32, 2019
RHEL / CentOS 6 | 2.6.32 | Nov 30, 2020
The following changes were made as part of removing support.
* Updated `configure` to enforce a minimum kernel version as
specified in the META file (Linux-Minimum: 3.10).
configure: error:
*** Cannot build against kernel version 2.6.32.
*** The minimum supported kernel version is 3.10.
* Removed all `configure` kABI checks and matching C code for
interfaces which solely predate the Linux 3.10 kernel.
* Updated all `configure` kABI checks to fail when an interface is
missing which was in the 3.10 kernel up to the latest 5.1 kernel.
Removed the HAVE_* preprocessor defines for these checks and
updated the code to unconditionally use the verified interface.
* Inverted the detection logic in several kABI checks to match
the new interface as it appears in 3.10 and newer and not the
legacy interface.
* Consolidated the following checks in to individual files. Due
the large number of changes in the checks it made sense to handle
this now. It would be desirable to group other related checks in
the same fashion, but this as left as future work.
- config/kernel-blkdev.m4 - Block device kABI checks
- config/kernel-blk-queue.m4 - Block queue kABI checks
- config/kernel-bio.m4 - Bio interface kABI checks
* Removed the kABI checks for sops->nr_cached_objects() and
sops->free_cached_objects(). These interfaces are currently unused.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#9566
Currently, for certain sizes and classes of allocations we use
SPL caches that are backed by caches in the Linux Slab allocator
to reduce fragmentation and increase utilization of memory. The
way things are implemented for these caches as of now though is
that we don't keep any statistics of the allocations that we
make from these caches.
This patch enables the tracking of allocated objects in those
SPL caches by making the trade-off of grabbing the cache lock
at every object allocation and free to update the respective
counter.
Additionally, this patch makes those caches visible in the
/proc/spl/kmem/slab special file.
As a side note, enabling the specific counter for those caches
enables SDB to create a more user-friendly interface than
/proc/spl/kmem/slab that can also cross-reference data from
slabinfo. Here is for example the output of one of those
caches in SDB that outputs the name of the underlying Linux
cache, the memory of SPL objects allocated in that cache,
and the percentage of those objects compared to all the
objects in it:
```
> spl_kmem_caches | filter obj.skc_name == "zio_buf_512" | pp
name ... source total_memory util
----------- ... ----------------- ------------ ----
zio_buf_512 ... kmalloc-512[SLUB] 16.9MB 8
```
Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
Closes#9474
Make the metaslab platform agnostic again by adding
accessor functions which can be implemented by each
platform.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@ixsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Macy <mmacy@FreeBSD.org>
Closes#9404
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
