splat kmem:slab_reclaim: Test cleanup

By setting __GFP_NORETRY the kernel memory reclaim logic was allowed to
abort early and dump a falled allocation stack to the console.  Since
this was done in a tight loop to fill memory it could result in a large
number of stacks being dumped to the console.  This in turn slowed down
the test sufficiently so it exceeded the time limit and failed.

To resolve this issue the __GFP_NORETRY flag is being removed.  This is
how it should have been called originally to ensure we're simulating
the behavior of most callers which will use the GFP_KERNEL flag.

In addition, the reclaim granularity of 1000 objects was far to coarse
for this to be a realistic test.  For kmem:slab_reclaim there might
only be a few thousand objects total in the cache.  Therefore, the
SPLAT_KMEM_OBJ_RECLAIM constant for these tests was lowered.  This
will cause the reclaim callback to run more frequently which makes
for a better test case.

The frequency of the cache reaping in kmem:slab_reap was increased
to accommodate the reduced number of objects released during the
reclaim.

These changes only impact the test cases and were done to remove
false positives caused by the test case itself.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
splat cred:groupmember: Fix false positives

Due to certain assumptions made in the the cred:groupmember test it
could result in false positives when run on specific distributions.
This was solely a bug in the test case and not in the groupmember()
function which the test case was validating.

To prevent future false positives the test case has been rewritten
to be both more rigerous and to make fewer assumptions about the
system.

Minor style cleanup was done to cr_groups_search() and groupmember()
functions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Support post-3.13 kthread_create() semantics.

Provide spl_kthread_create() as a wrapper to the kernel's kthread_create()
to provide pre-3.13 semantics.  Re-try if the call is interrupted or if it
would have returned -ENOMEM.  Otherwise return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #339
De-inline spl_kthread_create().

The function was defined as a static inline with variable arguments
which causes gcc to generate errors on some distros.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #346
Call kthread_create() correctly with fixed arguments.

The kernel's kthread_create() function is defined as "..." and there is
no va_list variant at the moment.  The task name is pre-formatted into
a local buffer and passed to kthread_create() with fixed arguments.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #347
Simplify hostid logic

There is plenty of compatibility code for a hw_hostid
that isn't used by anything. At the same time, there are apparently
issues with the current hostid logic. coredumb in #zfsonlinux on
freenode reported that Fedora 17 changes its hostid on every boot, which
required force importing his pool. A suggestion by wca was to adopt
FreeBSD's behavior, where it treats hostid as zero if /etc/hostid does
not exist

Adopting FreeBSD's behavior permits us to eliminate plenty of code,
including a userland helper that invokes the system's hostid as a
fallback.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #224
This patch add a CTASSERT macro for compile time assertion.

This macro makes the compile to spit "mixed definition and code"
warning, I can't find a way to avoid it.

This patch lays some groundwork for the persistent l2arc feature.
See https://www.illumos.org/issues/3525.

Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #303
Add ddi_time_after and friends

When comparing times gotten from ddi_get_lbolt, we have to take account of
wrap around of jiffies. Therefore, we cannot use 't1 < t2'. Instead we should
use 't1 - t2 < 0'.

This patch add ddi_time_after and friends to address this issue. They have
strict type restriction, clock_t for vanilla and int64_t for 64 version, to
prevent type conversion from screwing things.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #335
Expose max/min objs per slab and max slab size

By default maximal number of objects in slab can't exceed (16*2 - 1) and slab
size can't exceed 32M.
Today's high end servers having couple hundreds of RAM available for ARC may
run into a trouble with virtual memory because of the restriction mentioned
above.

Problem:
Reasons for very high number of virtual memory allocations:
	* Real slab size very small relative to the size of the entire RAM
	* Slabs allocated on virtual memory and fill entire ARC

The result is very high number of allocated virtual memory ranges (hundreds of
ranges). When virtual memory subsystem manages high number of ranges its
performance become so poor that it freezes from time to time.

Solution:
Number of objects per slab should be increased taking into account maximal
slab size which can also be increased if needed.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #337
Change spl_kmem_cache_expire default setting to 2

This behavior is more consistent with the way memory reclaim
is expected to work under Linux.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #349
Add support for aarch64 (ARMv8)

Using the ARM reference simulation (fast model foundation v8) I
cross compiled spl and zfs, to confirm it works on ARMv8 (64 bit
arm architecture, called aarch64 in Linux).

As it is based on previous ARM porting, the resulting patch is
disappointingly small, there was very little to do. The code fixes
the compile issues and has light testing done.

Signed-off-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #351
Fix crash when using ZFS on Ceph rbd

When using __get_free_pages to get high order memory, only the first page's
_count will set to 1, other's will be 0. When an internal page get passed into
rbd, it will eventully go into tcp_sendpage. There, it will be called with
get_page and put_page, and get freed erroneously when _count jump back to 0.

The solution to this problem is to use compound page. All pages in a
high order compound page share a single _count. So get_page and put_page in
tcp_sendpage will not cause _count jump to 0.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #251
Evenly distribute the taskq threads across available CPUs

The problem is described in commit aeeb4e0c0ae75b99ebbaa3056f0afc8e12949532.
However, instead of disabling the binding to CPU altogether we just keep the
last CPU index across calls to taskq_create() and thus achieve even
distribution of the taskq threads across all available CPUs.

The implementation based on assumption that task queues initialization
performed in serial manner.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andreyv@infinidat.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #336
Linux 3.15 compat: NICE_TO_PRIO and PRIO_TO_NICE

These macro's were exposed to make them available to other
parts of the kernel and modules.

References:
  torvalds/linux@6b6350f

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #355
Linux 3.15: vfs_rename() added a flags argument

Detect the updated vfs_rename() interface and call it with an
extra flags argument.

References:
  torvalds/linux@520c8b1

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #355
Add KMC_SLAB cache type

For small objects the Linux slab allocator has several advantages
over its counterpart in the SPL.  These include:

1) It is more memory-efficient and packs objects more tightly.
2) It is continually tuned to maximize performance.

Therefore it makes sense to layer the SPLs slab allocator on top
of the Linux slab allocator.  This allows us to leverage the
advantages above while preserving the Illumos semantics we depend
on.  However, there are some things we need to be careful of:

1) The Linux slab allocator was never designed to work well with
   large objects.  Because the SPL slab must still handle this use
   case a cut off limit was added to transition from Linux slab
   backed objects to kmem or vmem backed slabs.

   spl_kmem_cache_slab_limit - Objects less than or equal to this
   size in bytes will be backed by the Linux slab.  By default
   this value is zero which disables the Linux slab functionality.
   Reasonable values for this cut off limit are in the range of
   4096-16386 bytes.

   spl_kmem_cache_kmem_limit - Objects less than or equal to this
   size in bytes will be backed by a kmem slab.  Objects over this
   size will be vmem backed instead.  This value defaults to
   1/8 a page, or 512 bytes on an x86_64 architecture.

2) Be aware that using the Linux slab may inadvertently introduce
   new deadlocks.  Care has been taken previously to ensure that
   all allocations which occur in the write path use GFP_NOIO.
   However, there may be internal allocations performed in the
   Linux slab which do not honor these flags.  If this is the case
   a deadlock may occur.

The path forward is definitely to start relying on the Linux slab.
But for that to happen we need to start building confidence that
there aren't any unexpected surprises lurking for us.  And ideally
need to move completely away from using the SPLs slab for large
memory allocations.  This patch is a first step.

NOTES:
1) The KMC_NOMAGAZINE flag was leveraged to support the Linux slab
   backed caches but it is not supported for kmem/vmem backed caches.

2) Regardless of the spl_kmem_cache_*_limit settings a cache may
   be explicitly set to a given type by passed the KMC_KMEM,
   KMC_VMEM, or KMC_SLAB flags during cache creation.

3) The constructors, destructors, and reclaim callbacks are all
   functional and will be called regardless of the cache type.

4) KMC_SLAB caches will not appear in /proc/spl/kmem/slab due to
   the issues involved in presenting correct object accounting.
   Instead they will appear in /proc/slabinfo under the same names.

5) Several kmem SPLAT tests needed to be fixed because they relied
   incorrectly on internal kmem slab accounting.  With the updated
   test cases all the SPLAT tests pass as expected.

6) An autoconf test was added to ensure that the __GFP_COMP flag
   was correctly added to the default flags used when allocating
   a slab.  This is required to ensure all pages in higher order
   slabs are properly refcounted, see ae16ed9.

7) When using the SLUB allocator there is no need to attempt to
   set the __GFP_COMP flag.  This has been the default behavior
   for the SLUB since Linux 2.6.25.

8) When using the SLUB it may be desirable to set the slub_nomerge
   kernel parameter to prevent caches from being merged.

Original-patch-by: DHE <git@dehacked.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: DHE <git@dehacked.net>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Closes #356
Add spl_kmem_cache_reclaim module option

The correct behavior for all registered shrinkers is to return the
number of objects in their cache.  In theory this allows the Linux
VM to balance memory reclaim across all registered caches.

In commit b9b3715 this behavior was disabled in favor of returning
-1 which notifies the VM that no additional objects are available
for reclaim.  This was done as a workaround to resolve thrashing
in shrink_slabs() which could occur when memory was low and numerous
core where in reclaim.  Unfortunately, this has been observed to
increase the likelihood of OOM events when SPL slab consumers are
responsible for consuming the majority of memory.

Therefore, this patch makes this behavior tunable.  Setting the
spl_kmem_cache_reclaim module option to 0x1 will result in the
shrinker only being called once.  This is the default behavior.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Closes #358
Restrict release number to META version

When creating packages in a git repository the release number
can be automatically set by 'git describe'.  This normally works
well but if your repository has newer tags which match the form
NAME-VERSION* the release may be incorrectly calculated.  To
prevent this the match patten has been restricted to NAME-VERSION.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fix DKMS package upgrade and packager

Running 'yum upgrade spl-dkms' package could appear to work properly
and still leave you with no spl modules installed.  This will occur
when only the spl release, and not the version, are incremented.
This may be the case for a fast moving spl-testing repository.

During the upgrade process DKMS will realize that spl-x.y.z is already
installed and remove it.  DKMS then correctly builds the new modules
for spl-x.y.z.  However, as a final step when the old spl-x.y.z-r is
removed the %preun script runs and removes the newly build modules.
To handle this case the %preun script has been updated to only run
when the installed version exactly matches the full spec file version.

This change also updated ChangeLog section based on the DKMS
reference spec file.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Set LANG to a reasonable default (C)

Set LANG=C before calling 'rpmbuild' to avoid rpmbuild failing on
the translated date string in the changelog.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #306