dataset_remove_clones_key does recursion, so if the recursion goes
deep it can overrun the linux kernel stack size of 8KB. I have seen
this happen in the actual deployment, and subsequently confirmed it by
running a test workload on a custom-built kernel that uses 32KB stack.
See the following stack trace as an example of the case where it would
have run over the 8KB stack kernel:
Depth Size Location (42 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 11192 72 __kmalloc+0x2e/0x240
1) 11120 144 kmem_alloc_debug+0x20e/0x500
2) 10976 72 dbuf_hold_impl+0x4a/0xa0
3) 10904 120 dbuf_prefetch+0xd3/0x280
4) 10784 80 dmu_zfetch_dofetch.isra.5+0x10f/0x180
5) 10704 240 dmu_zfetch+0x5f7/0x10e0
6) 10464 168 dbuf_read+0x71e/0x8f0
7) 10296 104 dnode_hold_impl+0x1ee/0x620
8) 10192 16 dnode_hold+0x19/0x20
9) 10176 88 dmu_buf_hold+0x42/0x1b0
10) 10088 144 zap_lockdir+0x48/0x730
11) 9944 128 zap_cursor_retrieve+0x1c4/0x2f0
12) 9816 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0xab/0x190
13) 9424 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
14) 9032 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
15) 8640 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
16) 8248 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
17) 7856 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
18) 7464 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
19) 7072 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
20) 6680 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
21) 6288 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
22) 5896 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
23) 5504 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
24) 5112 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
25) 4720 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
26) 4328 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
27) 3936 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
28) 3544 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
29) 3152 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
30) 2760 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
31) 2368 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
32) 1976 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
33) 1584 392 dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key.isra.14+0x10c/0x190
34) 1192 232 dsl_dataset_destroy_sync+0x311/0xf60
35) 960 72 dsl_sync_task_group_sync+0x12f/0x230
36) 888 168 dsl_pool_sync+0x48b/0x5c0
37) 720 184 spa_sync+0x417/0xb00
38) 536 184 txg_sync_thread+0x325/0x5b0
39) 352 48 thread_generic_wrapper+0x7a/0x90
40) 304 128 kthread+0xc0/0xd0
41) 176 176 ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
This change reduces the stack usage in dsl_dataset_remove_clones_key
by allocating structures in heap, not in stack. This is not a fundamental
fix, as one can create an arbitrary large data set that runs over any
fixed size stack, but this will make the problem far less likely.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kk@kohsuke.org>
Closes#1726