Tag ABD pages for exclusion in kernel crash dumps

Tag the ABD data pages so that they can be identified for exclusion 
from kernel crash dumps. Eliminating the zfs file data allows for 
significantly smaller crash dump files. Note that ZFS in illumos has 
always excluded the zfs data pages from a kernel crash dump.

This change tags ARC scatter data pages so they can be identified from 
the makedumpfile(8) command. That command is used to create smaller 
dump files by ignoring some memory regions and using compression. It 
already filters file data from the VFS page cache and will now be able 
to exclude ZFS file data pages from the dump file.

A corresponding change to makeumpfile(8) is required to identify ZFS 
data pages.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dagnelie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Don Brady <[email protected]>
Closes #8899 

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/module/zfs/abd.c b/module/zfs/abd.c
index 8b2514404..ac6b0b742 100644
--- a/module/zfs/abd.c
+++ b/module/zfs/abd.c
@@ -245,6 +245,32 @@ abd_chunkcnt_for_bytes(size_t size)
 }
 
 #ifdef _KERNEL
+/*
+ * Mark zfs data pages so they can be excluded from kernel crash dumps
+ */
+#ifdef _LP64
+#define	ABD_FILE_CACHE_PAGE	0x2F5ABDF11ECAC4E
+
+static inline void
+abd_mark_zfs_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	get_page(page);
+	SetPagePrivate(page);
+	set_page_private(page, ABD_FILE_CACHE_PAGE);
+}
+
+static inline void
+abd_unmark_zfs_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	set_page_private(page, 0UL);
+	ClearPagePrivate(page);
+	put_page(page);
+}
+#else
+#define	abd_mark_zfs_page(page)
+#define	abd_unmark_zfs_page(page)
+#endif /* _LP64 */
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 
 #ifndef __GFP_RECLAIM
@@ -318,6 +344,7 @@ abd_alloc_pages(abd_t *abd, size_t size)
 		size_t sg_size = MIN(PAGESIZE << compound_order(page),
 		    remaining_size);
 		sg_set_page(sg, page, sg_size, 0);
+		abd_mark_zfs_page(page);
 		remaining_size -= sg_size;
 
 		sg = sg_next(sg);
@@ -404,6 +431,7 @@ abd_alloc_pages(abd_t *abd, size_t size)
 
 		ABDSTAT_BUMP(abdstat_scatter_orders[0]);
 		sg_set_page(sg, page, PAGESIZE, 0);
+		abd_mark_zfs_page(page);
 	}
 
 	if (nr_pages > 1) {
@@ -430,6 +458,7 @@ abd_free_pages(abd_t *abd)
 
 	abd_for_each_sg(abd, sg, nr_pages, i) {
 		page = sg_page(sg);
+		abd_unmark_zfs_page(page);
 		order = compound_order(page);
 		__free_pages(page, order);
 		ASSERT3U(sg->length, <=, PAGE_SIZE << order);