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Brian Behlendorf e7b75d9b46 Limit maximum object size in kmem tests
Limit the maximum object size to 1/128 of total system memory for
the kmem cache tests.  Large values can result in out of memory errors
for systems with less the 512M of memory.  Additionally, use the
known number of objects per-slab for calculating the number of
objects to use for a test.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-11-16 15:02:24 -08:00
loli10K 31f24932a4 Remove superfluous `newline` character
Remove superfluous `newline` character from spl_kmem_cache_magazine_size
module parameter description.

Signed-off-by: loli10K <ezomori.nozomu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #499
2015-11-13 15:27:45 -08:00
tuxoko f5f2b87df0 Fix taskq dynamic spawning
Currently taskq_dispatch() will spawn new task with a condition that the caller
is also a member of the taskq. However, under this condition, it will still
cause deadlock where a task on tq1 is waiting another thread, who is trying to
dispatch a task on tq1. So this patch removes the check.

For example when you do:
zfs send pp/fs0@001 | zfs recv pp/fs0_copy

This will easily deadlock before this patch.

Also, move the seq_task check from taskq_thread_spawn() to taskq_thread()
because it's not used by the caller from taskq_dispatch().

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #496
2015-11-13 15:02:55 -08:00
Chunwei Chen 3e7e6f34d0 Don't call kmem_cache_shrink from shrinker
Linux slab will automatically free empty slab when number of partial slab is
over min_partial, so we don't need to explicitly shrink it. In fact, calling
kmem_cache_shrink from shrinker will cause heavy contention on
kmem_cache_node->list_lock, to the point that it might cause __slab_free to
livelock (see zfsonlinux/zfs#3936)

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#3936
Closes #487
2015-11-11 13:48:31 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 9b13f65d28 Fix CPU hotplug
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
2015-10-13 09:50:40 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2ebe396046 Fix PAX Patch/Grsec SLAB_USERCOPY panic
Support grsecurity/PaX kernel configurations where
CONFIG_PAX_USERCOPY_SLABS are enabled.  When this kernel option
is enabled slabs which are used to copy between user and kernel
space must be created with SLAB_USERCOPY.

Stock Linux kernels do not have a SLAB_USERCOPY definition so
this causes no change in behavior for non-PAX-enabled kernels.

Verified-by: Wuffleton <null@wuffleton.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2977
Issue #3796
2015-09-28 09:18:29 -07:00
Richard Yao d4bf6d8429 Disable direct reclaim in taskq worker threads on Linux 3.9+
Illumos does not have direct reclaim and code run inside taskq worker
threads is not designed to deal with it. Allowing direct reclaim inside
a worker thread can therefore deadlock. We set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO through
memalloc_noio_save() to indicate to the kernel's reclaim code that we
are inside a context where memory allocations cannot be allowed to block
on filesystem activity.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#1274
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#2390
Closes #474
2015-09-09 14:30:47 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 4fa4cab972 Linux 4.2 compat: misc_deregister()
The misc_deregister() function was changed to a void return type.
Rather than add compatibility code to detect this change simply
ignore the return code on all kernels.  It was only used to log
an informational error message of no real value.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-09-01 09:20:45 -07:00
Tim Chase a64e55752f Create a new thread during recursive taskq dispatch if necessary
When dynamic taskq is enabled and all threads for a taskq are occupied,
a recursive dispatch can cause a deadlock if calling thread depends on
the recursively-dispatched thread for its return condition.

This patch attempts to create a new thread for recursive dispatch when
none are available.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #472
2015-09-01 08:46:41 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 801b56090b Revert "Create a new thread during recursive taskq dispatch if necessary"
This reverts commit 076821e due to a locking issue uncovered in
subsequent testing.  An ASSERT is hit due to tq->tq_nspawn being
updated outside the lock.  The patch will need to be reworked.

VERIFY3(0 == tq->tq_nspawn) failed (0 == -1)

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #472
2015-08-31 17:03:01 -07:00
Tim Chase 076821eaff Create a new thread during recursive taskq dispatch if necessary
When dynamic taskq is enabled and all threads for a taskq are occupied,
a recursive dispatch can cause a deadlock if calling thread depends on
the recursively-dispatched thread for its return condition.

This patch attempts to create a new thread for recursive dispatch when
none are available.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #472
2015-08-31 15:52:06 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf ebc2c9374b Linux 4.2 compat: vfs_rename()
Attempting to perform a vfs_rename() on Linux 4.2 and newer kernels
results in an EACCES error.  Rather than attempting to add and
maintain more ugly compatibility code it's best to just retire
this interface.  As a first step the SPLAT test is disabled for
Linux 4.2 and newer kernels.

  vn_rename: Failed vn_rename /tmp/vn.tmp.1 -> /tmp/vn.tmp.2 (13)

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#3653
2015-08-19 16:03:29 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 9dc5ffbec8 Invert minclsyspri and maxclsyspri
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
2015-07-28 13:59:03 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 4699d76d19 Remove skc_ref from alloc/free paths
As described in spl_kmem_cache_destroy() the ->skc_ref count was
added to address the case of a cache reap or grow racing with a
destroy.  They are not strictly needed in the alloc/free paths
because consumers of the cache are responsible for not using it
while it's being destroyed.

Removing this code is desirable because there is some evidence that
contention on this atomic negative impacts performance on large-scale
NUMA systems.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #463
2015-07-24 11:11:45 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 62aa81a577 Add defclsyspri macro
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>
2015-07-23 13:25:49 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 9eb361aaa5 Default to --disable-debug-kmem
The default kmem debugging (--enable-debug-kmem) can severely impact
performance on large-scale NUMA systems due to the atomic operations
used in the memory accounting. A 32-thread fio test running on a
40-core 80-thread system and performing 100% cached reads with kmem
debugging is:

Enabled:
READ: io=177071MB, aggrb=2951.2MB/s, minb=2951.2MB/s, maxb=2951.2MB/s,

Disabled:
READ: io=271454MB, aggrb=4524.4MB/s, minb=4524.4MB/s, maxb=4524.4MB/s,

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issues #463
2015-07-21 11:47:10 -07:00
Turbo Fredriksson 37d7cd94f3 Support parallel build trees (VPATH builds)
Build products from an out of tree build should be written
relative to the build directory.  Sources should be referred
to by their locations in the source directory.

This is accomplished by adding the 'src' and 'obj' variables
for the module Makefile.am, using relative paths to reference
source files, and by setting VPATH when source files are not
co-located with the Makefile.  This enables the following:

  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build
  $ ../configure
  $ make -s

This change also has the advantage of resolving the following
warning which is generated by modern versions of automake.

  Makefile.am:00: warning: source file 'xxx' is in a subdirectory,
  Makefile.am:00: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#1082
2015-07-17 12:53:11 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 3c82160ff2 Set TASKQ_DYNAMIC for kmem and system taskqs
Add the TASKQ_DYNAMIC flag to the kmem_cache and system taskqs
to reduce the number of idle threads on the system.  Additional
threads will be created on demand up to the previous maximum
thread counts.  This should have minimal, if any, impact on
performance.

This makes the system taskq consistent with illumos which is
always created as a dynamic taskq with up to 64 threads.

The task limits for the kmem_cache have been increased to avoid
any unnessisary throttling and to keep a larger reserve of
task_t structures on the free list.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #458
2015-06-24 15:14:25 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf f7a973d99b Add TASKQ_DYNAMIC feature
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
2015-06-24 15:14:18 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2345368646 Rename cv_wait_interruptible() to cv_wait_sig()
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
2015-06-10 16:36:12 -07:00
Chris Dunlop a876b0305e Make taskq_wait() block until the queue is empty
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
2015-06-09 12:20:12 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 62e2eb2329 Fix cstyle issues in spl-tsd.c
This patch only addresses the issues identified by the style checker
in spl-tsd.c.  It contains no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-04-24 14:23:07 -07:00
Chunwei Chen 3d39d0afab Make tsd_set(key, NULL) remove the tsd entry for current thread
To prevent leaking tsd entries, we make tsd_set(key, NULL) remove the tsd
entry for the current thread. This is alright since tsd_get() returns NULL
when the entry doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #443
2015-04-24 14:15:22 -07:00
Richard Yao d3c677bcd3 Implement areleasef()
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #449
2015-04-24 13:02:37 -07:00
Richard Yao 313b1ea622 vn_getf/vn_releasef should not accept negative file descriptors
C type coercion rules require that negative numbers be converted into
positive numbers via wraparound such that a negative -1 becomes a
positive 1. This causes vn_getf to return a file handle when it should
return NULL whenever a positive file descriptor existed with the same
value. We should check for a negative file descriptor and return NULL
instead.

This was caught by ClusterHQ's unit testing.

Reference:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50605/signed-to-unsigned-conversion-in-c-is-it-always-safe

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #450
2015-04-24 13:02:00 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2a5d574eca Clear PF_FSTRANS over vfs_sync()
When layered on XFS the following warning will be emitted under CentOS7
when entering vfs_fsync() with PF_FSTRANS already set.  This is not an
issue for other stock Linux file systems and the warning was removed
for newer kernels.  However, to avoid triggering this error PF_FSTRANS
is cleared and then reset in vn_fsync().

WARNING: at fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:968 xfs_vm_writepage+0x5ab/0x5c0

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8105dee1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80
 [<ffffffffa01706fb>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x5ab/0x5c0 [xfs]
 [<ffffffff8114b833>] __writepage+0x13/0x50
 [<ffffffff8114c341>] write_cache_pages+0x251/0x4d0
 [<ffffffff8114c60d>] generic_writepages+0x4d/0x80
 [<ffffffffa016fc93>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x43/0x50 [xfs]
 [<ffffffff8114d68e>] do_writepages+0x1e/0x40
 [<ffffffff81142bd5>] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x65/0x80
 [<ffffffff81142cea>] filemap_write_and_wait_range+0x2a/0x70
 [<ffffffffa017a5b6>] xfs_file_fsync+0x66/0x1f0 [xfs]
 [<ffffffff811df54b>] vfs_fsync+0x2b/0x40
 [<ffffffffa03a88bd>] vn_fsync+0x2d/0x90 [spl]
 [<ffffffffa0520c33>] spa_config_sync+0x503/0x680 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa0520ee4>] spa_config_update+0x134/0x170 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa0520eba>] spa_config_update+0x10a/0x170 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa051c54f>] spa_import+0x5bf/0x7b0 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa055c754>] zfs_ioc_pool_import+0x104/0x150 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa056294f>] zfsdev_ioctl+0x4cf/0x5c0 [zfs]
 [<ffffffffa0562480>] ? pool_status_check+0xf0/0xf0 [zfs]
 [<ffffffff811c2c85>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e5/0x4c0
 [<ffffffff811c2f01>] SyS_ioctl+0xa1/0xc0
 [<ffffffff815f3219>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-04-07 15:03:47 -07:00
Tim Chase ae26dd0039 Don't allow shrinking a PF_FSTRANS context
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
2015-04-03 11:32:31 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 6ab08667a4 Reduce splat_taskq_test2_impl() stack frame size
Slightly increasing the size of a kmutex_t has caused us to exceed
the stack frame warning size in splat_taskq_test2_impl().  To address
this the tq_args have been moved to the heap.

  cc1: warnings being treated as errors
  spl-0.6.3/module/splat/splat-taskq.c:358:
  error: the frame size of 1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #435
2015-03-03 10:18:31 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf d0d5dd7144 Add MUTEX_FSTRANS mutex type
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
2015-03-03 10:18:24 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf c1bc8e610b Retire spl_module_init()/spl_module_fini()
In the original implementation of the SPL wrappers were provided
for module initialization and cleanup.  This was done to abstract
away any compatibility code which might be needed for the SPL.

As it turned out the only significant compatibility issue was that
the default pwd during module load differed under Illumos and Linux.
Since this is such as minor thing and the wrappers complicate the
code they are being retired.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#2985
2015-02-27 13:43:39 -08:00
Chunwei Chen 086476f920 Fix spl_hostid module parameter
Currently, spl_hostid module parameter doesn't do anything, because it will
always be overwritten when calling into hostid_read().
Instead, we should only call into hostid_read() when spl_hostid is not zero,
just as the comment describes.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #427
2015-02-04 16:42:25 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf c7db36a3c4 Optimize vmem_alloc() retry path
For performance reasons the reworked kmem code maps vmem_alloc() to
kmalloc_node() for allocations less than spa_kmem_alloc_max.  This
allows for more concurrency in the system and less contention of
the virtual address space.  Generally, this is a good thing.

However, in the case when the kmalloc_node() fails it makes little
sense to retry it using kmalloc_node() again.  It will likely fail
in exactly the same way.  A smarter strategy is to abandon this
optimization and retry using spl_vmalloc() which is very likely
to succeed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Closes #428
2015-02-02 10:57:56 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 54cccfc2e3 Fix GFP_KERNEL allocations flags
The kmem_vasprintf(), kmem_vsprintf(), kobj_open_file(), and vn_openat()
functions should all use the kmem_flags_convert() function to generate
the GFP_* flags.  This ensures that they can be safely called in any
context and the correct flags will be used.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #426
2015-01-21 15:25:19 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf ee33517452 Use __get_free_pages() for emergency objects
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>
2015-01-16 13:58:11 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 436ad60faa Fix kmem cache deadlock logic
The kmem cache implementation always adds new slabs by dispatching a
task to the spl_kmem_cache taskq to perform the allocation.  This is
done because large slabs must be allocated using vmalloc().  It is
possible these allocations will block on IO because the GFP_NOIO flag
is not honored.  This can result in a deadlock.

Therefore, a deadlock detection strategy was implemented to deal with
this case.  When it is determined, by timeout, that the spl_kmem_cache
thread has deadlocked attempting to add a new slab.  Then all callers
attempting to allocate from the cache fall back to using kmalloc()
which does honor all passed flags.

This logic was correct but an optimization in the code allowed for a
deadlock.  Because only slabs backed by vmalloc() can deadlock in the
way described above.  An optimization was made to only invoke this
deadlock detection code for vmalloc() backed caches.  This had the
advantage of making it easy to distinguish these objects when they
were freed.

But this isn't strictly safe.  If all the spl_kmem_cache threads end
up deadlocked than we can't grow any of the other caches either.  This
can once again result in a deadlock if memory needs to be allocated
from one of these other caches to ensure forward progress.

The fix here is to remove the optimization which limits this fall back
allocation stratagy to vmalloc() backed caches.  Doing this means we
may need to take the cache lock in spl_kmem_cache_free() call path.
But this small cost can be mitigated by ignoring objects with virtual
addresses.

For good measure the default number of spl_kmem_cache threads has been
increased from 1 to 4, and made tunable.  This alone wouldn't resolve
the original issue since it's still possible for all the threads to be
deadlocked.  However, it does help responsiveness by ensuring that a
single deadlocked spl_kmem_cache thread doesn't block allocations from
other caches until the timeout is reached.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 3018bffa9b Refine slab cache sizing
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>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf e50e6cc958 Reduce kmem cache deadlock threshold
Reduce the threshold for detecting a kmem cache deadlock by 10x
from HZ to HZ/10.  The reduced value is still several orders of
magnitude large enough to avoid being triggered incorrectly.  By
reducing it we allow the system to resolve the issue more quickly.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 1a20496834 Make slab reclaim more aggressive
Many people have noticed that the kmem cache implementation is slow
to release its memory.  This patch makes the reclaim behavior more
aggressive by immediately freeing a slab once it is empty.  Unused
objects which are cached in the magazines will still prevent a slab
from being freed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Richard Yao a988a35a93 Enforce architecture-specific barriers around clear_bit()
The comment above the Linux 3.16 kernel's clear_bit() states:

/**
 * clear_bit - Clears a bit in memory
 * @nr: Bit to clear
 * @addr: Address to start counting from
 *
 * clear_bit() is atomic and may not be reordered.  However, it does
 * not contain a memory barrier, so if it is used for locking purposes,
 * you should call smp_mb__before_atomic() and/or smp_mb__after_atomic()
 * in order to ensure changes are visible on other processors.
 */

This comment does not make sense in the context of x86 because x86 maps the
operations to barrier(), which is a compiler barrier. However, it does make
sense to me when I consider architectures that reorder around atomic
instructions. In such situations, a processor is allowed to execute the
wake_up_bit() before clear_bit() and we have a race. There are a few
architectures that suffer from this issue.

In such situations, the other processor would wake-up, see the bit is still
taken and go to sleep, while the one responsible for waking it up will
assume that it did its job and continue.

This patch implements a wrapper that maps smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() to
smp_mb__{before,after}_clear_bit() on older kernels and changes our code to
leverage it in a manner consistent with the mainline kernel.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
Richard Yao c2fa09454e Add hooks for disabling direct reclaim
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>
2015-01-16 13:55:09 -08:00
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
Brian Behlendorf 03a783534a Fix debug object on stack warning
When running the SPLAT tests on a kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y
enabled the following warning is generated.

  ODEBUG: object is on stack, but not annotated
  WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:300 __debug_object_init+0x221/0x480()

This is caused by the test cases placing a debug object on the stack
rather than the heap.  This isn't harmful since they are small objects
but to make CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y happy the objects have been relocated
to the heap.  This impacted taskq tests 1, 3, and 7.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #424
2015-01-07 13:52:20 -08:00
Ned Bass 52479ecf58 Remove compat includes from sys/types.h
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
2014-11-19 10:35:12 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 8d9a23e82c Retire legacy debugging infrastructure
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
2014-11-19 10:35:07 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 917fef2732 Lower minimum objects/slab threshold
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>
2014-11-05 10:08:21 -08:00
Alexander Pyhalov 3f4a13c497 Fix modules installation directory
When building zfs modules with kernel, compiled from deb.src, the
packaging process ends up installing the modules in the wrong place.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Pyhalov <apyhalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#2822
2014-10-28 09:49:24 -07:00
Richard Yao ad9863e80b kmem_cache: Call constructor/destructor on each alloc/free
This has a few benefits. First, it fixes a regression that "Rework
generic memory allocation interfaces" appears to have triggered in
splat's slab_reap and slab_age tests. Second, it makes porting code from
Illumos to ZFSOnLinux easier. Third, it has the side effect of making
reclaim from slab caches that specify reclaim functions an order of
magnitude faster. The splat slab_reap test usually took 30 to 40
seconds. With this change, it takes 3 to 4.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #369
2014-10-28 09:21:08 -07:00
Tim Chase 802a4a2ad5 Linux 3.12 compat: shrinker semantics
The new shrinker API as of Linux 3.12 modifies "struct shrinker" by
replacing the @shrink callback with the pair of @count_objects and
@scan_objects.  It also requires the return value of @count_objects to
return the number of objects actually freed whereas the previous @shrink
callback returned the number of remaining freeable objects.

This patch adds support for the new @scan_objects return value semantics
and updates the splat shrinker test case appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #403
2014-10-28 09:20:13 -07:00