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Brian Behlendorf 19ea3d25df Use zio buffers in zil_itx_create()
The zil_itx_create() function uses the vmem_alloc() allocator for
its buffers because when logging a write that buffer may be as large
as 64K.  This is non-optimal because we may need to allocate many of
of these buffers and this interface has the potential to be slow.
Instead, use zio_data_buf_alloc() which is specifically designed to
be able to efficiently allocate a wide range of buffer sizes.

In addition, do some cleanup and use the zil_itx_destroy() function
to always free an itx structure.  This way we're always sure the
right allocation functions are used.  Notice that in the current
code kmem_free() and vmem_free() were both used.  This happened to
work because these wrappers map to the same internal SPL function.

This was identified as a potential problem when a low-end memory
constrained system began logging the following warnings.  There
was no deadlock here just repeated allocation failures resulting
in increased latency.

Possible memory allocation deadlock: size=65792 lflags=0x42d0
Pid: 20118, comm: kvm Tainted: P           O 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa040b834>] ? spl_kmem_alloc_impl+0x115/0x127 [spl]
 [<ffffffffa040b84f>] ? spl_kmem_alloc_debug+0x9/0x36 [spl]
 [<ffffffffa05d8a0b>] ? zil_itx_create+0x2d/0x59 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa05c71e6>] ? zfs_log_write+0x13a/0x2f0 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa05d41bc>] ? zfs_write+0x85b/0x9bb [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa05e37ec>] ? zpl_aio_write+0xca/0x110 [zfs]
 [<ffffffff811088e5>] ? do_sync_readv_writev+0xa3/0xde
 [<ffffffff81108f41>] ? do_readv_writev+0xaf/0x125
 [<ffffffff81109055>] ? sys_pwritev+0x55/0x9a
 [<ffffffff813721d2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Closes #3059
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