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 <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/module/spl/spl-proc.c b/module/spl/spl-proc.c
index e5712aee0..a434ef54f 100644
--- a/module/spl/spl-proc.c
+++ b/module/spl/spl-proc.c
@@ -354,26 +354,6 @@ static struct ctl_table spl_kmem_table[] = {
                 .proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
         },
         {
-                .procname = "vmem_used",
-                .data     = &vmem_alloc_used,
-# ifdef HAVE_ATOMIC64_T
-                .maxlen   = sizeof(atomic64_t),
-# else
-                .maxlen   = sizeof(atomic_t),
-# endif /* HAVE_ATOMIC64_T */
-                .mode     = 0444,
-                .proc_handler = &proc_domemused,
-        },
-        {
-                .procname = "vmem_max",
-                .data     = &vmem_alloc_max,
-                .maxlen   = sizeof(unsigned long),
-                .extra1   = &table_min,
-                .extra2   = &table_max,
-                .mode     = 0444,
-                .proc_handler = &proc_doulongvec_minmax,
-        },
-        {
                 .procname = "slab_kmem_total",
 		.data     = (void *)(KMC_KMEM | KMC_TOTAL),
                 .maxlen   = sizeof(unsigned long),