xfs: can't use kmem_zalloc() for attribute buffers

Because heap allocation of 64kB buffers will fail:

....
 XFS: fs_mark(8414) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8417) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8409) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8428) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8430) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8437) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8433) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8406) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8412) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8432) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
 XFS: fs_mark(8424) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65768 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d40)
....

I'd use kvmalloc() instead, but....

- 48.19% xfs_attr_create_intent
  - 46.89% xfs_attri_init
     - kvmalloc_node
	- 46.04% __kmalloc_node
	   - kmalloc_large_node
	      - 45.99% __alloc_pages
		 - 39.39% __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0
		    - 38.89% __alloc_pages_direct_compact
		       - 38.71% try_to_compact_pages
			  - compact_zone_order
			  - compact_zone
			     - 21.09% isolate_migratepages_block
				  10.31% PageHuge
				  5.82% set_pfnblock_flags_mask
				  0.86% get_pfnblock_flags_mask
			     - 4.48% __reset_isolation_suitable
				  4.44% __reset_isolation_pfn
			     - 3.56% __pageblock_pfn_to_page
				  1.33% pfn_to_online_page
			       2.83% get_pfnblock_flags_mask
			     - 0.87% migrate_pages
				  0.86% compaction_alloc
			       0.84% find_suitable_fallback
		 - 6.60% get_page_from_freelist
		      4.99% clear_page_erms
		    - 1.19% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
		       - do_raw_spin_lock
			    __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
	- 0.86% __vmalloc_node_range
	     0.65% __alloc_pages_bulk

.... this is just yet another reminder of how much kvmalloc() sucks.
So lift xlog_cil_kvmalloc(), rename it to xlog_kvmalloc() and use
that instead....

We also clean up the attribute name and value lengths as they no
longer need to be rounded out to sizes compatible with log vectors.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
index 70f718d76ceb..6ca6fe8f2747 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
@@ -135,39 +135,6 @@ xlog_cil_iovec_space(
 }
 
 /*
- * shadow buffers can be large, so we need to use kvmalloc() here to ensure
- * success. Unfortunately, kvmalloc() only allows GFP_KERNEL contexts to fall
- * back to vmalloc, so we can't actually do anything useful with gfp flags to
- * control the kmalloc() behaviour within kvmalloc(). Hence kmalloc() will do
- * direct reclaim and compaction in the slow path, both of which are
- * horrendously expensive. We just want kmalloc to fail fast and fall back to
- * vmalloc if it can't get somethign straight away from the free lists or buddy
- * allocator. Hence we have to open code kvmalloc outselves here.
- *
- * Also, we are in memalloc_nofs_save task context here, so despite the use of
- * GFP_KERNEL here, we are actually going to be doing GFP_NOFS allocations. This
- * is actually the only way to make vmalloc() do GFP_NOFS allocations, so lets
- * just all pretend this is a GFP_KERNEL context operation....
- */
-static inline void *
-xlog_cil_kvmalloc(
-	size_t		buf_size)
-{
-	gfp_t		flags = GFP_KERNEL;
-	void		*p;
-
-	flags &= ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
-	flags |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY;
-	do {
-		p = kmalloc(buf_size, flags);
-		if (!p)
-			p = vmalloc(buf_size);
-	} while (!p);
-
-	return p;
-}
-
-/*
  * Allocate or pin log vector buffers for CIL insertion.
  *
  * The CIL currently uses disposable buffers for copying a snapshot of the
@@ -283,7 +250,7 @@ xlog_cil_alloc_shadow_bufs(
 			 * storage.
 			 */
 			kmem_free(lip->li_lv_shadow);
-			lv = xlog_cil_kvmalloc(buf_size);
+			lv = xlog_kvmalloc(buf_size);
 
 			memset(lv, 0, xlog_cil_iovec_space(niovecs));