The SPL fails to build with some "Configured" kernels (ex. openSUSE
xen Kernel) this change should make same binaries with C compiler
optimization.
Signed-off-by: zgock <zgock@nuc.base.zgock-lab.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#510
For some arm, powerpc, and sparc platforms it was possible that
neither _ILP32 of _LP64 would be defined. Update the isa_defs.h
header to explicitly set these macros and generate a compile error
in the case neither are defined.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: tuxoko <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#4048
This reverts commit a430c11f0b. Using
journal_info like this can cause a BUG at kernel fs/jbd2/transaction.c:425!
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #500
The ->journal_info pointer in the task_struct is reserved for use by
filesystems and because the kernel can have multiple file systems on the
same stack due to direct reclaim, each filesystem that touches
->journal_info in a callback function will save the value at the start
of its frame and restore it at the end of its frame. This allows us to
safely use ->journal_info to store a pointer to the taskq's struct in
taskq threads so that ZFS code paths can detect the presence of a taskq.
This could break if the ZFS code were to use taskq_member from the
context of direct reclaim. However, there are no such uses of it in that
manner, so this is safe.
This eliminates an O(N) list traversal under a spinlock with an O(1)
unlocked pointer comparison.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: tuxoko <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#500
If a vnode is released asynchronously through areleasef(), it is
possible for the user process to reuse the file descriptor before
areleasef is called. When this happens, getf() will return a stale
reference, any operations in the kernel on that file descriptor will
fail (as it is closed) and the operations meant for that fd will
never occur from userspace's perspective.
We correct this by detecting this condition in getf(), doing a putf
on the old file handle, updating the file descriptor and proceeding
as if everything was fine. When the areleasef() is done, it will
harmlessly decrement the reference counter on the Illumos file handle.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#492
Replace DKIOCTRIM with DKIOCFREE and add additional support required
for Nextenta's TRIM support.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#469
The original P2ROUNDUP and P2ROUNDUP_TYPED macros contain -x which
triggers PaX's integer overflow detection for unsigned integers.
Replace the macros with an equivalent version that does not trigger
the overflow.
Axioms:
A. (-(x)) === (~((x) - 1)) === (~(x) + 1) under two's complement.
B. ~(x & y) === ((~(x)) | (~(y))) under De Morgan's law.
C. ~(~x) === x under the law of excluded middle.
Proof:
0. (-(-(x) & -(align))) original
1. (~(-(x) & -(align)) + 1) by A
2. (((~(-(x))) | (~(-(align)))) + 1) by B
3. (((~(~((x) - 1))) | (~(~((align) - 1)))) + 1) by A
4. (((((x) - 1)) | (((align) - 1))) + 1) by C
Q.E.D.
Signed-off-by: Jason Zaman <jason@perfinion.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Reviewed-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#2505
Closes#488
Allocate a kmem cache magazine for every possible CPU which might
be added to the system. This ensures that when one of these CPUs
is enabled it can be safely used immediately.
For many systems the number of online CPUs is identical to the
number of present CPUs so this does imply an increased memory
footprint. In fact, dynamically allocating the array of magazine
pointers instead of using the worst case NR_CPUS can end up
decreasing our memory footprint.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes#482
If CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER is defined, rw_semaphore will have an owner
field, so we don't need our own.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #473
The spin lock around rw_owner is completely unnecessary. The reason is that it
is only modified in the down_write context. If you race against another thread
modifying it, that means that you aren't holding the rwlock, so taking the
spin lock don't eliminate the race.
Also, we only check rw_owner in RW_WRITE_HELD because spl_rwsem_is_locked
is unnecessary and might need to take spin lock.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #473
Starting from Linux 4.1, bio_vec will be allowed to pass into filesystem via
iter_read/iter_write, so we add a bio_vec field in uio_t to hold it, and use
UIO_BVEC in segflg to determine which "vec".
Also, to be consistent to newer kernel, we make iovec and bio_vec immutable,
and make uio act as an iterator with the new uio_skip field indicating number
of bytes to skip in the first segment.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#3511
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#3640
Closes#468
Prevents ARC collapse when non-ZFS filesystems, the block layer or other
memory consumers use a lot of reclaimable memory in the page cache.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#3680
Closes#471
This patch reverts 77ab5dd. This is now possible because upstream has
refactored the ARC in such a way that these values are only used in a
few key places. Those places have subsequently been updated to use
the Linux equivalent Linux functionality.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#3637
On Linux the meaning of a processes priority is inverted with respect
to illumos. High values on Linux indicate a _low_ priority while high
value on illumos indicate a _high_ priority.
In order to preserve the logical meaning of the minclsyspri and
maxclsyspri macros when they are used by the illumos wrapper functions
their values have been inverted. This way when changes are merged
from upstream illumos we won't need to remember to invert the macro.
It could also lead to confusion.
Note this change also reverts some of the priorities changes in prior
commit 62aa81a. The rational is as follows:
spl_kmem_cache - High priority may result in blocked memory allocs
spl_system_taskq - May perform I/O for file backed VDEVs
spl_dynamic_taskq - New taskq threads should be spawned promptly
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#3607
Add a new defclsyspri macro which can be used to request the default
Linux scheduler priority. Neither the minclsyspri or maxclsyspri map
to the default Linux kernel thread priority. This makes it awkward to
create taskqs which run with the same priority as the rest of the kernel
threads on the system which can lead to performance issues.
All SPL callers which previously used minclsyspri or maxclsyspri have
been changed to use defclsyspri. The vast majority of callers were
part of the test suite which won't have an external impact. The few
places where it could impact performance the change was from maxclsyspri
to defclsyspri. This makes it more likely the process will be scheduled
which may help performance.
To facilitate further performance analysis the spl_taskq_thread_priority
module option has been added. When disabled (0) all newly created kernel
threads will use the default kernel thread priority. When enabled (1)
the specified taskq priority will be used. By default this value is
enabled (1).
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The function vmem_qcache_reap() and global variables 'needfree',
'desfree', and 'lotsfree' are all used in the upstream. While
these variables have no meaning under Linux they're being defined
as 0's to avoid needing to make additional changes to the ARC code.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Setting the TASKQ_DYNAMIC flag will create a taskq with dynamic
semantics. Initially only a single worker thread will be created
to service tasks dispatched to the queue. As additional threads
are needed they will be dynamically spawned up to the max number
specified by 'nthreads'. When the threads are no longer needed,
because the taskq is empty, they will automatically terminate.
Due to the low cost of creating and destroying threads under Linux
by default new threads and spawned and terminated aggressively.
There are two modules options which can be tuned to adjust this
behavior if needed.
* spl_taskq_thread_sequential - The number of sequential tasks,
without interruption, which needed to be handled by a worker
thread before a new worker thread is spawned. Default 4.
* spl_taskq_thread_dynamic - Provides the ability to completely
disable the use of dynamic taskqs on the system. This is provided
for the purposes of debugging and troubleshooting. Default 1
(enabled).
This behavior is fundamentally consistent with the dynamic taskq
implementation found in both illumos and FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#458
Added for upstream compatibility, they are of the form:
* IMPLY(a, b) - if (a) then (b)
* EQUIV(a, b) - if (a) then (b) *AND* if (b) then (a)
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Commit f752b46e added the cv_wait_interruptible() function to allow
condition variables to be woken by signals. This function and its
timed wait counterpart should have been named cv_wait_sig() to match
the illumos interface which provides the same functionality.
This patch renames the symbol but leaves a #define compatibility
wrapper in place until the ZFS code can be moved to the correct
name.
This patch also makes a small number of cosmetic changes to make
the condvar source and header cstyle clean.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#456
Stock Linux 2.6.32 and earlier kernels contained a broken version of
rwsem_is_locked() which could return an incorrect value. Because of
this compatibility code was added to detect the broken implementation
and replace it with our own if needed.
The fix for this issue was merged in to the mainline Linux kernel as
of 2.6.33 and the major enterprise distributions based on 2.6.32 have
all backported the fix. Therefore there is no longer a need to carry
this code and it can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#454
Under Illumos taskq_wait() returns when there are no more tasks
in the queue. This behavior differs from ZoL and FreeBSD where
taskq_wait() returns when all the tasks in the queue at the
beginning of the taskq_wait() call are complete. New tasks
added whilst taskq_wait() is running will be ignored.
This difference in semantics makes it possible that new subtle
issues could be introduced when porting changes from Illumos.
To avoid that possibility the taskq_wait() function is being
updated such that it blocks until the queue in empty.
The previous behavior remains available through the
taskq_wait_outstanding() interface. Note that this function
was previously called taskq_wait_all() but has been renamed
to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#455
Avoid deadlocks when entering the shrinker from a PF_FSTRANS context.
This patch also reverts commit d0d5dd7 which added MUTEX_FSTRANS. Its
use has been deprecated within ZFS as it was an ineffective mechanism
to eliminate deadlocks. Among other things, it introduced the need for
strict ordering of mutex locking and unlocking in order that the
PF_FSTRANS flag wouldn't set incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#446
Also add support for the "name" parameter in mutex_init(). The name
allows for better diagnostics, namely in /proc/lock_stats when
lock debugging is enabled. Nested mutexes are necessary to support
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING. ZoL can use mutex_enter_nested()'s "class" argument
to to convey the locking hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#439
There are regions in the ZFS code where it is desirable to be able
to be set PF_FSTRANS while a specific mutex is held. The ZFS code
could be updated to set/clear this flag in all the correct places,
but this is undesirable for a few reasons.
1) It would require changes to a significant amount of the ZFS
code. This would complicate applying patches from upstream.
2) It would be easy to accidentally miss a critical region in
the initial patch or to have an future change introduce a
new one.
Both of these concerns can be addressed by adding a new mutex type
which is responsible for managing PF_FSTRANS, support for which was
added to the SPL in commit 9099312 - Merge branch 'kmem-rework'.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #435
To minimize the size of a kmutex_t a MUTEX_OWNER check was added.
It allowed the kmutex_t wrapper to leverage the mutex owner which was
already stored in the mutex for certain kernel configurations.
The upside to this was that it reduced the size of the kmutex_t wrapper
structure by the size of a task_struct pointer (4/8 bytes). The
downside was that two mutex implementations needed to be maintained.
Depending on your exact kernel configuration the correct one would
be selected.
Over the years this solution worked but it could be fragile since it
depending heavily on assumed kernel mutex implementation details. For
example the SPL_AC_MUTEX_OWNER_TASK_STRUCT configure check needed to
be added when the kernel changed how the owner was stored. It also
made the code more complicated than it needed to be.
Therefore, in the name of simplicity and portability this optimization
is being retired. It will slightly increase the memory requirements
for a kmutex_t but only very slightly.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #435
This patch only addresses the issues identified by the style checker
in mutex.h. It contains no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #435
The __get_free_pages() function must be used in place of kmalloc()
to ensure the __GFP_COMP is strictly honored. This is due to
kmalloc() being layered on the generic Linux slab caches. It
wasn't until recently that all caches were created using __GFP_COMP.
This means that it is possible for a kmalloc() which passed the
__GFP_COMP flag to be returned a non-compound allocation.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This change is designed to improve the memory utilization of
slabs by more carefully setting their size. The way the code
currently works is problematic for slabs which contain large
objects (>1MB). This is due to slabs being unconditionally
rounded up to a power of two which may result in unused space
at the end of the slab.
The reason the existing code rounds up every slab is because it
assumes it will backed by the buddy allocator. Since the buddy
allocator can only performs power of two allocations this is
desirable because it avoids wasting any space. However, this
logic breaks down if slab is backed by vmalloc() which operates
at a page level granularity. In this case, the optimal thing to
do is calculate the minimum required slab size given certain
constraints (object size, alignment, objects/slab, etc).
Therefore, this patch reworks the spl_slab_size() function so
that it sizes KMC_KMEM slabs differently than KMC_VMEM slabs.
KMC_KMEM slabs are rounded up to the nearest power of two, and
KMC_VMEM slabs are allowed to be the minimum required size.
This change also reduces the default number of objects per slab.
This reduces how much memory a single cache object can pin, which
can result in significant memory saving for highly fragmented
caches. But depending on the workload it may result in slabs
being allocated and freed more frequently. In practice, this
has been shown to be a better default for most workloads.
Also the maximum slab size has been reduced to 4MB on 32-bit
systems. Due to the limited virtual address space it's critical
the we be as frugal as possible. A limit of 4M still lets us
reasonably comfortably allocate a limited number of 1MB objects.
Finally, the kmem:slab_small and kmem:slab_large SPLAT tests
were extended to provide better test coverage of various object
sizes and alignments. Caches are created with random parameters
and their basic functionality is verified by allocating several
slabs worth of objects.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The port of XFS to Linux introduced a thread-specific PF_FSTRANS bit
that is used to mark contexts which are processing transactions. When
set, allocations in this context can dip into kernel memory reserves
to avoid deadlocks during writeback. Linux 3.9 provided the additional
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO for disabling __GFP_IO in page allocations, which XFS
began using in 3.15.
This patch implements hooks for marking transactions via PF_FSTRANS.
When an allocation is performed in the context of PF_FSTRANS, any
KM_SLEEP allocation is transparently converted to a GFP_NOIO allocation.
Additionally, when using a Linux 3.9 or newer kernel, it will set
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent direct reclaim from entering pageout() on
on any KM_PUSHPAGE or KM_NOSLEEP allocation. This effectively allows
the spl_vmalloc() helper function to be used safely in a thread which
is responsible for IO.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
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>
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>
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>
This reverts commit eb0f407a2b in
preperation for updating the kmem/vmem infrastructure to use the
PF_FSTRANS flag.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Since the Linux kernel's utimens family of functions uses
current_kernel_time(), we need to do the same in the context of ZFS
or else there can be discrepencies in timestamps (they go backward)
if userland code does:
fd = creat(FNAME, 0600);
(void) futimens(fd, NULL);
The getnstimeofday() function generally returns a slightly lower time
value.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closeszfsonlinux/zfs#3006
It is known that mutexes in Linux are not safe when using them to
synchronize the freeing of object in which the mutex is embedded:
http://lwn.net/Articles/575477/
The known places in ZFS which are suspected to suffer from the race
condition are zio->io_lock and dbuf->db_mtx.
* zio uses zio->io_lock and zio->io_cv to synchronize freeing
between zio_wait() and zio_done().
* dbuf uses dbuf->db_mtx to protect reference counting.
This patch fixes this kind of race by forcing serialization on
mutex_exit() with a spin lock, making the mutex safe by sacrificing
a bit of performance and memory overhead.
This issue most commonly manifests itself as a deadlock in the zio
pipeline caused by a process spinning on the damaged mutex. Similar
deadlocks have been reported for the dbuf->db_mtx mutex. And it can
also cause a NULL dereference or bad paging request under the right
circumstances.
This issue any many like it are linked off the zfsonlinux/zfs#2523
issue. Specifically this fix resolves at least the following
outstanding issues:
zfsonlinux/zfs#401
zfsonlinux/zfs#2523
zfsonlinux/zfs#2679
zfsonlinux/zfs#2684
zfsonlinux/zfs#2704
zfsonlinux/zfs#2708
zfsonlinux/zfs#2517
zfsonlinux/zfs#2827
zfsonlinux/zfs#2850
zfsonlinux/zfs#2891
zfsonlinux/zfs#2897
zfsonlinux/zfs#2247
zfsonlinux/zfs#2939
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Closes#421
Don't include the compatibility code in linux/*_compat.h in the public
header sys/types.h. This causes problems when an external code base
includes the ZFS headers and has its own conflicting compatibility code.
Lustre, in particular, defined SHRINK_STOP for compatibility with
pre-3.12 kernels in a way that conflicted with the SPL's definition.
Because Lustre ZFS OSD includes ZFS headers it fails to build due to a
'"SHRINK_STOP" redefined' compiler warning. To avoid such conflicts
only include the compat headers from .c files or private headers.
Also, for consistency, include sys/*.h before linux/*.h then sort by
header name.
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#411
When the SPL was originally written Linux tracepoints were still
in their infancy. Therefore, an entire debugging subsystem was
added to facilite tracing which served us well for many years.
Now that Linux tracepoints have matured they provide all the
functionality of the previous tracing subsystem. Rather than
maintain parallel functionality it makes sense to fully adopt
tracepoints. Therefore, this patch retires the legacy debugging
infrastructure.
See zfsonlinux/zfs@bc9f413 for the tracepoint changes.
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#408
As long as we can fit a minimum of one object/slab there's no reason
to prevent the creation of the cache. This effectively pushes the
maximum object size up to 32MB. The splat cache tests were extended
accordingly to verify this functionality.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This is the upstream component of work that enables preliminary support
for building Gentoo's ZFS packaging on other Linux systems via Gentoo
Prefix.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <richard.yao@clusterhq.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#384
As of Linux 2.6.32 the proc handlers where updated to expect only
five arguments. Therefore there is no longer a need to maintain
this compatibility code and this infrastructure can be simplified.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The groups_search() function was never exported by a mainline kernel
therefore we drop this compatibility code and always provide our own
implementation.
Additionally, the cred_t structure has been available since 2.6.29
so there is no longer a need to maintain compatibility code.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
After the removable of get_vmalloc_info(), the unused global memory
variables, and the optional dcache/icache shrinkers there is no
longer a need for the kallsyms compatibility code. This allows
us to eliminate another brittle area of the code by removing the
kernel upcall this functionality depended on for older kernels.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This is optional functionality which may or may not be useful to
ZFS when using older kernels. It is never a hard requirement.
Therefore this functionality is being removed from the SPL and
a simpler slimmed down version will be added to ZFS.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Platforms such as Illumos and FreeBSD have historically provided
global variables which summerize the memory state of a system.
Linux on the otherhand doesn't expose any of this information
to kernel modules and uses entirely different mechanisms for
memory management.
In order to simplify the original ZFS port to Linux these global
variables were emulated by the SPL for the benefit of ZFS. As ZoL
has matured over the years it has moved steadily away from these
interfaces and now no longer depends on them at all.
Therefore, this patch completely removes the global variables
availrmem, minfree, desfree, lotsfree, needfree, swapfs_minfree,
and swapfs_reserve. This greatly simplifies the memory management
code and eliminates a common area of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The get_vmalloc_info() function was used to back the vmem_size()
function. This was always problematic and resulted in brittle
code because the kernel never provided a clean interface for
modules.
However, it turns out that the only caller of this function in
ZFS uses it to determine the total virtual address space size.
This can be determined easily without get_vmalloc_info() so
vmem_size() has been updated to take this approach which allows
us to shed the get_vmalloc_info() dependency.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The on_each_cpu() function has been available since Linux 2.6.27.
There is no longer a need to maintain this compatibility code.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
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Brian Behlendorf
Richard Yao
Tim Chase
Jason Zaman
Chunwei Chen
Chris Dunlop
Tim Chase
Richard Yao
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