[0/3,v2] mm, xfs: memory allocation improvements

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Dave Chinner June 30, 2021, 6:14 a.m. UTC

HI folks,

This is an updated version of the patch series first posted here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/[e-mail]/

Changes in this version can be found in the changelog below.

Cheers,

Dave.

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We're slowly trying to move the XFS code closer to the common memory
allocation routines everyone else uses. This patch set addresses a
regression from a previous set of changes (kmem_realloc() removal)
and removes another couple of kmem wrappers from within the XFS
code.

The first patch addresses a regression - using large directory
blocks triggers a warning when calling krealloc() recombine a buffer
split across across two log records into a single contiguous
memory buffer. this results in krealloc() being called to allocate a
64kB buffer with __GFP_NOFAIL being set. This warning is trivially
reproduced by generic/040 and generic/041 when run with 64kB
directory block sizes on a 4kB page size machine.

Log recovery really needs to use kvmalloc() like all the other
"allocate up to 64kB and can't fail" cases in filesystem code (e.g.
for xattrs), but there's no native kvrealloc() function that
provides us with the necessary semantics. So rather than add a new
wrapper, the first patch adds this helper to the common code and
converts XFS to use it for log recovery.

The latter two patches are removing what are essentially kvmalloc()
wrappers from XFS. With the more widespread use of
memalloc_nofs_save/restore(), we can call kvmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) and
just have it do the right thing because GFP_NOFS contexts are
covered by PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS task flags now. Hence we don't need
kmem_alloc_large() anymore. And with the slab code guaranteeing at
least 512 byte alignment for sector and block sized heap
allocations, we no longer need the kmem_alloc_io() variant of
kmem_alloc_large() for IO buffers. So these wrappers can all go
away...

Version 2:
- move kvrealloc to mm/util.c
- check for null being returned by vmalloc
- remove unused xfs_buftarg_dma_alignment()