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Brian Behlendorf
dba79fcbf2 Add KSTAT_TYPE_TXG type
Add a new kstat type for tracking useful statistics about a TXG.
The new KSTAT_TYPE_TXG type can be used to tracks the following
statistics per-txg.

  txg          - Unique txg number
  state        - State (O)pen/(Q)uiescing/(S)yncing/(C)ommitted
  birth;       - Creation time
  nread        - Bytes read
  nwritten;    - Bytes written
  reads        - IOPs read
  writes       - IOPs write
  open_time;   - Length in nanoseconds the txg was open
  quiesce_time - Length in nanoseconds the txg was quiescing
  sync_time;   - Length in nanoseconds the txg was syncing

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-11-02 15:17:40 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
71c9f0b003 Make kstat.ks_update() callback atomic
Move the kstat ks_update() callback under the ks_lock.  This
enables dynamically sized kstats without modification to the
kstat API.

  * Create a kstat with the KSTAT_FLAG_VIRTUAL flag.
  * Register a ->ks_update() callback which does:
    o Frees any existing ks_data buffer.
    o Set ks_data_size to the kstat array size.
    o Set ks_data to an allocated buffer of size ks_data_size
    o Populate the array of buffers with the required data.

The buffer allocated in the ks_update() callback is guaranteed
to remain allocated and valid while the proc sequence handler
iterates over the buffer.  The lock will not be dropped until
kstat_seq_stop() function is run making it safe for concurrent
access.  To allow the ks_update() callback to perform memory
allocations the lock was changed to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-10-23 09:36:19 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
1e0c2c2ccf Linux 3.7 compat, __clear_close_on_exec() removed
Commit torvalds/linux@b8318b0 moved the __clear_close_on_exec()
function out of include/linux/fdtable.h and in to fs/file.c
making it unavailable to the SPL.

Now as it turns out we only used this function to tear down
some test infrastructure for the vn_getf()/vn_releasef() SPLAT
regression tests.  Rather than implement even more autoconf
compatibilty code to handle this we just remove the test case.
This also allows us to drop three existing autoconf tests.

This does mean the SPLAT tests will no longer verify these
functions but historically they have never been a problem.
And if we feel we absolutely need this test coverage I'm
sure a more portable version of the test case could be added.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #183
2012-10-18 13:36:44 -07:00
Yuxuan Shui
bcb15891ab Linux 3.6 compat, kern_path_locked() added
The kern_path_parent() function was removed from Linux 3.6 because
it was observed that all the callers just want the parent dentry.
The simpler kern_path_locked() function replaces kern_path_parent()
and does the lookup while holding the ->i_mutex lock.

This is good news for the vn implementation because it removes the
need for us to handle the locking.  However, it makes it harder to
implement a single readable vn_remove()/vn_rename() function which
is usually what we prefer.

Therefore, we implement a new version of vn_remove()/vn_rename()
for Linux 3.6 and newer kernels.  This allows us to leave the
existing working implementation untouched, and to add a simpler
version for newer kernels.

Long term I would very much like to see all of the vn code removed
since what this code enabled is generally frowned upon in the kernel.
But that can't happen util we either abondon the zpool.cache file
or implement alternate infrastructure to update is correctly in
user space.

Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #154
2012-10-14 16:26:21 -07:00
Massimo Maggi
dea3505dff Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE
In this particular instance the allocation occurred in the context
of sys_msync()->...->zpl_putpage() where we must be careful not to
initiate additional I/O.

Signed-off-by: Massimo Maggi <massimo@mmmm.it>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-10-11 16:22:29 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
bbdc6ae495 Add interface for file hole punching.
This adds an interface to "punch holes" (deallocate space) in VFS
files. The interface is identical to the Solaris VOP_SPACE interface.
This interface is necessary for TRIM support on file vdevs.

This is implemented using Linux fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE), which
was introduced in 2.6.38. For a brief time before 2.6.38 this was done
using the truncate_range inode operation, which was quickly deprecated.
This patch only supports FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE.

This adds support for the truncate_range() inode operation to
VOP_SPACE() for file hole punching. This API is deprecated and removed
in 3.5, so it's only useful for old kernels.

On tmpfs, the truncate_range() inode operation translates to
shmem_truncate_range(). Unfortunately, this function expects the end
offset to be inclusive and aligned to the end of a page. If it is not,
the kernel will stop with a BUG_ON().

This patch fixes the issue by adapting to the constraints set forth by
shmem_truncate_range().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #168
2012-10-04 16:22:07 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
a6c6839a88 SPL 0.6.0-rc11 2012-09-18 11:28:57 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3050c9314f Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE
Under certain circumstances the following functions may be called
in a context where KM_SLEEP is unsafe and can result in a deadlocked
system.  To avoid this problem the unconditional KM_SLEEPs are
converted to KM_PUSHPAGEs.  This will prevent them from attempting
to initiate any I/O during direct reclaim.

This change was originally part of cd5ca4b but was reverted by
330fe01.  It always should have had its own commit for exactly
this reason.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-09-12 12:27:09 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
9b51f21841 Remove TQ_SLEEP -> KM_SLEEP mapping
When the taskq code was originally written it seemed like a good
idea to simply map TQ_SLEEP to KM_SLEEP.  Unfortunately, this
assumed that the TQ_* flags would never confict with any of the
Linux GFP_* flags.  When adding the TQ_PUSHPAGE support in commit
cd5ca4b this invariant was accidentally broken.

Therefore to support TQ_PUSHPAGE, which is needed for Linux, and
prevent any further confusion I have removed this direct mapping.
The TQ_SLEEP, TQ_NOSLEEP, and TQ_PUSHPAGE are no longer defined
in terms of their KM_* counterparts.  Instead a simple mapping
function is introduce to convert TQ_* -> KM_* where needed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #171
2012-09-12 11:41:42 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
330fe010e4 Revert "Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE"
This reverts commit cd5ca4b2f8
due to conflicts in the higher TQ_ bits which caused incorrect
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-09-12 10:07:48 -07:00
Chris Dunlop
dd87332f47 Remove autotools products
spl_config.h.in is a generated file: remove and .gitignore it

Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-09-11 10:12:47 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3c60f5054c Debug cv_destroy() with mutex held
There still appears to be a race in the condition variables where
->cv_mutex is set after we are woken from the cv_destroy wait queue.
This might be possible when cv_destroy() is called immediately after
cv_broadcast().  We had some troubles with this previously but
there may still be a small race, see commit d599e4f.

The following patch closes one small race and improves the ASSERTs
such that they log the offending value.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
zfsonlinux/zfs#943
2012-09-10 10:23:26 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
95331f4437 Set KMC_NOEMERGENCY for zlib workspaces
The workspace required by zlib to perform compression is roughly
512MB (order-7).  These allocations are so large that we should
never attempt to directly kmalloc an emergency object for them.

It is far preferable to asynchronously vmalloc an additional slab
in case it's needed.  Then simply block waiting for an existing
object to be released or for the new slab to be allocated.

This can be accomplished by disabling emergency slab objects by
passing the KMC_NOEMERGENCY flag at slab creation time.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
zfsonlinux/zfs#917
2012-09-07 14:36:26 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
cb5c2acebb Add KMC_NOEMERGENCY slab flag
Provide a flag to disable the use of emergency objects for a
specific kmem cache.  There may be instances where under no
circumstances should you kmalloc() an emergency object.  For
example, when you cache contains very large objects (>128k).

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-09-07 14:27:03 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
ac8ca67a88 Add DKIOCTRIM for TRIM support.
See dechamps/zfs@cc6cd40ad7 for details.

This harmless addition was merged to simplify testing the ZFS TRIM
support patches.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #167
2012-09-02 14:22:01 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
46b3945d5d Suppress task_hash_table_init() large allocation warning
When various kernel debuging options are enabled this allocation
may be larger than usual as shown by the following warning.  It
is in no way harmful so we suppress the warning.

  SPL: large kmem_alloc(40960, 0x80d0) at
  tsd_hash_table_init:358 (76495/76495)

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #93
2012-08-30 21:02:52 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
efcd0ca32d Enhance SPLAT kmem:slab_overcommit test
After the emergency slab objects were merged I started observing
timeout failures in the kmem:slab_overcommit test.  These were
due to the ineffecient way the slab_overcommit reclaim function
was implemented.  And due to the additional cost of potentially
allocating ten of thousands of emergency objects and tracking
them on a single list.

This patch addresses the first concern by enhansing the test
case to trace all of the allocations objects as a linked list.
This allows for a cleaner version of the reclaim function to
simply release SPLAT_KMEM_OBJ_RECLAIM objects.

Since this touches some common code all the tests which share
these data structions were also updated.  After making these
changes slab_overcommit is reliably passing.  However, there
is certainly additional cleanup which could be done here.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-30 15:49:00 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
cd5ca4b2f8 Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE
Under certain circumstances the following functions may be called
in a context where KM_SLEEP is unsafe and can result in a deadlocked
system.  To avoid this problem the unconditional KM_SLEEPs are
converted to KM_PUSHPAGEs.  This will prevent them from attempting
to initiate any I/O during direct reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3e904f40b4 Mutex ASSERT on self deadlock
Generate an assertion if we're going to deadlock the system by
attempting to acquire a mutex the process is already holding.

There are currently no known instances of this under normal
operation, but it _might_ be possible when using a ZVOL as a
swap device.  I want to ensure we catch this immediately if it
were to occur.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
eb0f407a2b Add PF_NOFS debugging flag
PF_NOFS is a per-process debug flag which is set in current->flags to
detect when a process is performing an unsafe allocation.  All tasks
with PF_NOFS set must strictly use KM_PUSHPAGE for allocations because
if they enter direct reclaim and initiate I/O they may deadlock.

When debugging is disabled, any incorrect usage will be detected and
a call stack with a warning will be printed to the console.  The flags
will then be automatically corrected to allow for safe execution.  If
debugging is enabled this will be treated as a fatal condition.

To avoid any risk of conflicting with the existing PF_ flags.  The
PF_NOFS bit shadows the rarely used PF_MUTEX_TESTER bit.  Only when
CONFIG_RT_MUTEX_TESTER is not set, and we know this bit is unused,
will the PF_NOFS bit be valid.  Happily, most existing distributions
ship a kernel with CONFIG_RT_MUTEX_TESTER disabled.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
500e95c884 Revert "Disable vmalloc() direct reclaim"
This reverts commit 2092cf68d8.  The
use of the PF_MEMALLOC flag was always a hack to work around memory
reclaim deadlocks.  Those issues are believed to be resolved so this
workaround can be safely reverted.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
617f79de6a Revert "Fix NULL deref in balance_pgdat()"
This reverts commit b8b6e4c453.  The
use of the PF_MEMALLOC flag was always a hack to work around memory
reclaim deadlocks.  Those issues are believed to be resolved so this
workaround can be safely reverted.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
bc03e07a7c Revert "Detect kernels that honor gfp flags passed to vmalloc()"
This reverts commit 36811b4430.
Which is no longer required because there is now SPL code in
place to safely handle the deadlocks the kernel patch was designed
to address.  Therefore we can unconditionally use vmalloc() and
drop all the PF_MEMALLOC code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
d47e664ad4 Revert "Add TASKQ_NORECLAIM flag"
This reverts commit 372c257233.  The
use of the PF_MEMALLOC flag was always a hack to work around memory
reclaim deadlocks.  Those issues are believed to be resolved so this
workaround can be safely reverted.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:42 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
e2dcc6e2b8 Emergency slab objects
This patch is designed to resolve a deadlock which can occur with
__vmalloc() based slabs.  The issue is that the Linux kernel does
not honor the flags passed to __vmalloc().  This makes it unsafe
to use in a writeback context.  Unfortunately, this is a use case
ZFS depends on for correct operation.

Fixing this issue in the upstream kernel was pursued and patches
are available which resolve the issue.

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416685

However, these changes were rejected because upstream felt that
using __vmalloc() in the context of writeback should never be done.
Their solution was for us to rewrite parts of ZFS to accomidate
the Linux VM.

While that is probably the right long term solution, and it is
something we want to pursue, it is not a trivial task and will
likely destabilize the existing code.  This work has been planned
for the 0.7.0 release but in the meanwhile we want to improve the
SPL slab implementation to accomidate this expected ZFS usage.

This is accomplished by performing the __vmalloc() asynchronously
in the context of a work queue.  This doesn't prevent the posibility
of the worker thread from deadlocking.  However, the caller can now
safely block on a wait queue for the slab allocation to complete.

Normally this will occur in a reasonable amount of time and the
caller will be woken up when the new slab is available,.  The objects
will then get cached in the per-cpu magazines and everything will
proceed as usual.

However, if the __vmalloc() deadlocks for the reasons described
above, or is just very slow, then the callers on the wait queues
will timeout out.  When this rare situation occurs they will attempt
to kmalloc() a single minimally sized object using the GFP_NOIO flags.
This allocation will not deadlock because kmalloc() will honor the
passed flags and the caller will be able to make forward progress.

As long as forward progress can be maintained then even if the
worker thread is deadlocked the critical thread will make progress.
This will eventually allow the deadlocked worker thread to complete
and normal operation will resume.

These emergency allocations will likely be slow since they require
contiguous pages.  However, their use should be rare so the impact
is expected to be minimal.  If that turns out not to be the case in
practice further optimizations are possible.

One additional concern is if these emergency objects are long lived.
Right now they are simply tracked on a list which must be walked when
an object is freed.  Is they accumulate on a system and the list
grows freeing objects will become more expensive.  This could be
handled relatively easily by using a hash instead of a list, but that
optimization (if needed) is left for a follow up patch.

Additionally, these emeregency objects could be repacked in to existing
slabs as objects are freed if the kmem_cache_set_move() functionality
was implemented.  See issue https://github.com/zfsonlinux/spl/issues/26
for full details.  This work would also help reduce ZFS's memory
fragmentation problems.

The /proc/spl/kmem/slab file has had two new columns added at the
end.  The 'emerg' column reports the current number of these emergency
objects in use for the cache, and the following 'max' column shows
the historical worst case.  These value should give us a good idea
of how often these objects are needed.  Based on these values under
real use cases we can tune the default behavior.

Lastly, as a side benefit using a single work queue for the slab
allocations should reduce cpu contention on the global virtual address
space lock.   This should manifest itself as reduced cpu usage for
the system.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:00:42 -07:00
Prakash Surya
587045a638 Remove SPL_LINUX_CONFIG autoconf macro
Since removing the check for CONFIG_PREEMPT, there are no consumers of
the SPL_LINUX_CONFIG macro. As such, there is no reason to keep it
around.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #164
2012-08-27 11:58:37 -07:00
Prakash Surya
e3a4360702 Revert "Make CONFIG_PREEMPT Fatal"
This reverts commit 7731d46b69.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 11:52:53 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
c638e9ad04 Remove autotools products
Remove all of the generated autotools products from the repository
and update the .gitignore files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#718
2012-08-27 11:46:23 -07:00
Prakash Surya
45324c7c41 Add kpreempt_[dis|en]able macros in <sys/disp.h>
To support preempt enabled kernels in ZFS on Linux, there are a couple
places where the ZFS code needs to disable interrupts. This change adds
the Solaris preempt functions and maps them to the equivalent ZFS
functions, allowing the ZFS to make use of them.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #98
2012-08-24 15:18:38 -07:00
Prakash Surya
08850eddcb Avoid calling smp_processor_id in spl_magazine_age
The spl_magazine_age function had the implied assumption that it will
remain on its current cpu through its execution. In order to support
preempt enabled kernels, this assumption had to be removed.

The spl_kmem_magazine structure now holds the cpu id of the cpu it is
local to. This allows spl_magazine_age to use this field when scheduling
work to be done by the magazine's local cpu.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #98
2012-08-24 09:43:22 -07:00
Richard Yao
15d0411297 Remove Makefile from non-toplevel .gitignore files
When building SPL support into the kernel, ./copy-builtin will copy
non-toplevel .gitignore files. These files list /Makefile, which causes
git-archive to omit ./module/{spl,splat}/Makefile. The absence of these
files result in build failures when SPL is selected. ZFS is unaffected
because it puts Makefile in the toplevel .gitignore, which is not
copied. We fix SPL by emulating that behavior.

Reported-by: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #152
2012-08-23 12:49:04 -07:00
Prakash Surya
9baf44bc17 Wrap trace_set_debug_header in trace_[get|put]_tcd
To properly support CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled kernels, we must refrain from
using a CPU index when preemption is enabled. As a result, this change
moves the trace_set_debug_header call (which calls smp_processor_id)
within trace_get_tcd and trace_put_tcd (which disable and enable
preemption respectively).

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #160
2012-08-23 10:01:20 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
039bae18ca Add copy-builtin to EXTRA_DIST
The copy-builtin script was accidentally not being included in
the tarballs.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #159
2012-08-23 09:59:40 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3a9c241e55 SPL 0.6.0-rc10 2012-08-13 16:34:39 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3679829092 Cleanly remove spl-modules-devel headers
Add the /usr/src/spl-<version>-<release>/<kernel> directory to
the spl-modules-devel package.  This ensures that this directory
will be removed when the package is removed.

We do not include the higher level /usr/src/spl-<version>-<release>
directory since there may be builds for multiple kernels.  Instead,
a %postun rmdir is added which attempts to remove this directory.
It will only succeed when the last spl-modules-devel-* package
for this specific release is removed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-13 16:34:32 -07:00
Prakash Surya
d83d25c2f8 Support building a spl-modules-dkms sub package
This commit adds support for building a spl-modules-dkms sub package
built around Dynamic Kernel Module Support. This is to allow building
packages using the DKMS infrastructure which is intended to ease the
burden of kernel version changes, upgrades, etc.

By default spl-modules-dkms-* sub package will be built as part of
the 'make rpm' target.  Alternately, you can build only the DKMS
module package using the 'make rpm-dkms' target.

Examples:

    # To build packaged binaries as well as a dkms packages
    $ ./configure && make rpm

    # To build only the packaged binary utilities and dkms packages
    $ ./configure && make rpm-utils rpm-dkms

Note: Only the RHEL 5/6, CHAOS 5, and Fedora distributions are
      supported for building the dkms sub package.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#535
2012-08-08 13:49:40 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
476ff5a4da Handle any invalidate_inodes_check prototype.
In the comments of commit 723aa3b0c2,
mmatuska reported that the test for invalidate_inodes_check() is broken
if invalidate_inodes() takes two arguments.

This patch fixes the issue by resorting to another approach for
detecting invalidate_inodes_check(): is simply checks if
invalidate_inodes is defined as a macro. If it is, then it concludes
that invalidate_inodes_check() is available. This will continue to work
even if the prototype of invalidate_inodes_check() changes over time.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #148
2012-08-06 11:39:49 -07:00
Richard Yao
6576a1a70d Fix incorrect type in spl_kmem_cache_set_move() parameter
A preprocessor definition renders this harmless. However, it is a good
idea to change this to be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-08-01 16:35:18 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
744038069d Merge branch 'builtin-clean'
Support in-tree builtin module building.

These commits add support for compiling the SPL module as a built-in
kernel module by copying the module code into the kernel source tree.
Here's the procedure:

  - Create your kernel configuration (`.config` file) as usual. This
    has to be done first so that SPL's configure script is able to
    detect kernel features correctly.
  - Run `make prepare scripts` inside the kernel source tree.
  - Run `./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...`
    inside the SPL directory.
  - Run `./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...` inside the SPL directory.
  - In the kernel source tree, enable the `CONFIG_SPL` option
    (e.g. using `make menuconfig`).
  - Build the kernel as usual.

SPL module parameters can be set at boot time using the following syntax
on the kernel command line: `spl.parameter_name=parameter_value`.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 15:31:02 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
a9f2397ee9 Determine the hostid on demand.
Currently, the SPL tries to determine the hostid at module load. The
hostid is usually determined by running the userland program "hostid"
during module initialization.

Unfortunately, when the module initializes, it may be way too soon to be
able to run any userland programs. This is especially true when the
module is compiled directly inside the kernel (built-in); in that case,
the SPL would try to run hostid when the kernel is still initializing,
which of course is doomed to fail.

This patch fixes the issue by deferring hostid generation until
something actually needs the hostid (that is, when zone_get_hostid() is
called), thus switching to a "on-initialization" model to a "on-demand"
(lazy loading) model. ZFS only needs the hostid when some pool
operations are requested, and this always happens way after the kernel
has finished initialization, thus solving the problem.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 15:14:02 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
c167aadb27 Add script for builtin module building.
This commit introduces a "copy-builtin" script designed to prepare a
kernel source tree for building SPL as a builtin module. The script
makes a full copy of all needed files, thus making the kernel source
tree fully independent of the spl source package.

To achieve that, some compilation flags (-include, -I) have been moved
to module/Makefile. This Makefile is only used when compiling external
modules; when compiling builtin modules, a Kbuild file generated by the
configure-builtin script is used instead. This makes sure Makefiles
inside the kernel source tree does not contain references to the spl
source package.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 15:13:09 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
723aa3b0c2 When checking for symbol exports, try compiling.
This patch adds a new autoconf function: SPL_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE_SYMBOL.
This new function does the following:

 - Call LINUX_TRY_COMPILE with the specified parameters.
 - If unsuccessful, return false.
 - If successful and we're configuring with --enable-linux-builtin,
   return true.
 - Else, call CHECK_SYMBOL_EXPORT with the specified parameters and
   return the result.

All calls to CHECK_SYMBOL_EXPORT are converted to
LINUX_TRY_COMPILE_SYMBOL so that the tests work even when configuring
for builtin on a kernel which doesn't have loadable module support, or
hasn't been built yet.

The only exception are:

 - AC_GET_VMALLOC_INFO, because we don't even have a public header to
include in the test case, but that's okay considering this symbol can
be ignored just fine.

- SPL_AC_DEVICE_CREATE, which is legacy API for 2.6.18 kernels.  Since
kernels this old are no longer supported it should arguably just be
removed entirely from the build system.

Note that we're also checking for the correct prototype with an actual
call, which was not the case with CHECK_SYMBOL_EXPORT. However, for
"complicated" test cases like with multiple symbol versions (e.g.
vfs_fsync), we stick with the original behavior and only check for the
function's existence.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 15:12:35 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
df7cc5bc71 Fake modpost stage for LINUX_COMPILE.
Currently, when building a test case, we're compiling an entire Linux
module from beginning to end. This includes the MODPOST stage, which
generates a "conftest.mod.c" file with some boilerplate module
declaration code.

This poses a problem when configuring for built-in on kernels which have
loadable module support disabled. In this case conftest.mod.c is
referencing disabled code, resulting in a compilation failure, thus
breaking the tests.

This patch fixes the issue by faking the modpost stage when the
--enable-linux-builtin option is provided.  It does so by forcing the
modpost command to be /bin/true, and using an empty conftest.mod.c file.
The test module still compiles fine, although the result isn't loadable,
but we don't really care at this point.

Note it is important to preserve the modpost stage when building out of
tree.  This allows for the posibility of configure checks to leverage
this phase to identify GPL-only symbols.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 15:12:10 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
0408008b33 Make configure builtin-aware.
This patch adds a new option to configure: --enable-linux-builtin. When
this option is used, the following happens:

 - Compilation of kernel modules is disabled.

 - A failure to find UTS_RELEASE is followed by a suggestion to run
   "make prepare" on the kernel source tree.

This patch also adds a new test which tries to compile an empty module
as a basic toolchain sanity test. If it fails and the option was
specified, the error is followed by a suggestion to run "make scripts"
on the kernel source tree.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 14:55:20 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
38b5ff4d07 Fix undefined reference on spl_mutex_spin_max().
Commit 3160d4f56b changed the set of
conditions under which spl_mutex_spin_max would be implemented as a
function by changing an #if in sys/mutex.h. The corresponding
implementation file spl-mutex.c, however, has not been updated to
reflect the change. This results in undefined reference errors on
spl_mutex_spin_max under the following condition:

((!CONFIG_SMP || CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES) && HAVE_MUTEX_OWNER && HAVE_TASK_CURR)

This patch fixes the issue by using the same #if in sys/mutex.h and
spl-mutex.c.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 14:54:53 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
016432fbeb Don't build packages that haven't been selected.
Currently, when configure --with-config is used, selective compilation
is only effective for the simple "make" case. Package builders (e.g.
make rpm) still build everything (utils and modules). This patch fixes
that.

This patch also drops the duplicate rpm-modules build target.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 14:54:32 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
94aac9c9bc Use MODULE variable in module Makefile like zfs.
In zfs, each module Makefile contains a MODULE variable which contains
the name of the module, and the following declarations reference this
variable.

In spl, there is a MODULES variable which is never used. Rename it to
MODULE and use it like in zfs. This improves consistency between the two
build systems.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#851
2012-07-26 14:53:48 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
e8267acd25 32-bit compat, hostid_read()
Explicitly cast the sizeof in hostid_read() to prevent the
following compiler warning on 32-bit systems.

  module/spl/spl-generic.c:490:10: error: format '%lu' expects
  argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type
  'unsigned int' [-Werror=format]

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-07-20 11:14:04 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
d503b971f4 Optimize spl_rwsem_is_locked()
The spl_rwsem_is_locked() compatibility function has been observed
to be a hot spot.  The root cause of this is that we must check the
rwsem activity under the rwsem->wait_lock to avoid a race.  When
the lock is busy significant contention can occur.

The upstream kernel fix for this race had the insight that by using
spin_trylock_irqsave() this contention could be avoided.  When the
lock is contended it's reasonable to return that it is locked.

This change updates the SPLs implemention to be like the upstream
kernel.  Since the kernel code has been in use for years now this
a low risk change.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-07-13 13:07:39 -07:00
Prakash Surya
d801db1487 Move spl.release generation to configure step
Previously, the spl.release file was created at 'make install' time.
This is slightly problematic when the file is needed without running
'make install'. Because of this, the step creating the file was removed
from 'make install' and replaced with a more appropriate spl.release.in
file.

As a result, the spl.release file will now be created earlier as part
of the 'configure' step as opposed to the 'make install' step.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #135
2012-07-12 12:13:47 -07:00