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Brian Behlendorf
c3eabc75b1 Refactor generic memory allocation interfaces
This patch achieves the following goals:

1. It replaces the preprocessor kmem flag to gfp flag mapping with
   proper translation logic. This eliminates the potential for
   surprises that were previously possible where kmem flags were
   mapped to gfp flags.

2. It maps vmem_alloc() allocations to kmem_alloc() for allocations
   sized less than or equal to the newly-added spl_kmem_alloc_max
   parameter.  This ensures that small allocations will not contend
   on a single global lock, large allocations can still be handled,
   and potentially limited virtual address space will not be squandered.
   This behavior is entirely different than under Illumos due to
   different memory management strategies employed by the respective
   kernels.  However, this functionally provides the semantics required.

3. The --disable-debug-kmem, --enable-debug-kmem (default), and
   --enable-debug-kmem-tracking allocators have been unified in to
   a single spl_kmem_alloc_impl() allocation function.  This was
   done to simplify the code and make it more maintainable.

4. Improve portability by exposing an implementation of the memory
   allocations functions that can be safely used in the same way
   they are used on Illumos.   Specifically, callers may safely
   use KM_SLEEP in contexts which perform filesystem IO.  This
   allows us to eliminate an entire class of Linux specific changes
   which were previously required to avoid deadlocking the system.

This change will be largely transparent to existing callers but there
are a few caveats:

1. Because the headers were refactored and extraneous includes removed
   callers may find they need to explicitly add additional #includes.
   In particular, kmem_cache.h must now be explicitly includes to
   access the SPL's kmem cache implementation.  This behavior is
   different from Illumos but it was done to avoid always masking
   the Linux slab functions when kmem.h is included.

2. Callers, like Lustre, which made assumptions about the definitions
   of KM_SLEEP, KM_NOSLEEP, and KM_PUSHPAGE will need to be updated.
   Other callers such as ZFS which did not will not require changes.

3. KM_PUSHPAGE is no longer overloaded to imply GFP_NOIO.  It retains
   its original meaning of allowing allocations to access reserved
   memory.  KM_PUSHPAGE callers can be converted back to KM_SLEEP.

4. The KM_NODEBUG flags has been retired and the default warning
   threshold increased to 32k.

5. The kmem_virt() functions has been removed.  For callers which
   need to distinguish between a physical and virtual address use
   is_vmalloc_addr().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
b34b95635a Fix kmem cstyle issues
Address all cstyle issues in the kmem, vmem, and kmem_cache source
and headers.  This will done to make it easier to review subsequent
changes which will rework the kmem/vmem implementation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
e5b9b344c7 Refactor existing code
This change introduces no functional changes to the memory management
interfaces.  It only restructures the existing codes by separating the
kmem, vmem, and kmem cache implementations in the separate source and
header files.

Splitting this functionality in to separate files required the addition
of spl_vmem_{init,fini}() and spl_kmem_cache_{initi,fini}() functions.

Additionally, several minor changes to the #include's were required to
accommodate the removal of extraneous header from kmem.h.

But again, while large this patch introduces no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:08 -08:00