[PATCH 2/2] xfs: stop using kmalloc in xfs_buf_get_noaddr

Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-07T10:13:35Z

Currently xfs_buf_get_noaddr allocates memory using kmem_alloc which
can end up either in kmalloc or vmalloc and assigns it to the buffer.
This patch changes it to allocate individual pages and if there is
more then one maps it into kernel virtual space using vmap.

This means the minimum buffer allocation is PAGE_SIZE now. For two
of the three caller (log buffers, log recovery) that is perfectly
fine, because they always allocate buffers that are a power of two
of the page size anyway. For xfs_zero_remaining_bytes the minimum
allocation goes up from blocksize to pagesize and thus there is
a potential waste of memory for blocksize < pagesize allocations,
which is unfortunate but not directly solveable when block
drivers expect reference countable pages. To fix this waste
xfs_zero_remaining_bytes could be rewritten to zero more than
a single block at a time, which sounds like a good idea in general.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c 2007-03-05 15:54:40.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c 2007-03-05 15:54:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@

ASSERT(list_empty(&bp->b_hash_list));

- if (bp->b_flags & _XBF_PAGE_CACHE) {
+ if (bp->b_flags & (_XBF_PAGE_CACHE|_XBF_PAGES)) {
uint i;

if ((bp->b_flags & XBF_MAPPED) && (bp->b_page_count > 1))
@@ -323,18 +323,11 @@
for (i = 0; i < bp->b_page_count; i++) {
struct page *page = bp->b_pages[i];

- ASSERT(!PagePrivate(page));
+ if (bp->b_flags & _XBF_PAGE_CACHE)
+ ASSERT(!PagePrivate(page));
page_cache_release(page);
}
_xfs_buf_free_pages(bp);
- } else if (bp->b_flags & _XBF_KMEM_ALLOC) {
- /*
- * XXX(hch): bp->b_count_desired might be incorrect (see
- * xfs_buf_associate_memory for details), but fortunately
- * the Linux version of kmem_free ignores the len argument..
- */
- kmem_free(bp->b_addr, bp->b_count_desired);
- _xfs_buf_free_pages(bp);
}

xfs_buf_deallocate(bp);
@@ -764,41 +757,41 @@
size_t len,
xfs_buftarg_t *target)
{
- size_t malloc_len = len;
+ unsigned long page_count = PAGE_ALIGN(len) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ int error, i;
xfs_buf_t *bp;
- void *data;
- int error;

bp = xfs_buf_allocate(0);
if (unlikely(bp == NULL))
goto fail;
_xfs_buf_initialize(bp, target, 0, len, 0);

- try_again:
- data = kmem_alloc(malloc_len, KM_SLEEP | KM_MAYFAIL | KM_LARGE);
- if (unlikely(data == NULL))
+ error = _xfs_buf_get_pages(bp, page_count, 0);
+ if (error)
goto fail_free_buf;

- /* check whether alignment matches.. */
- if ((__psunsigned_t)data !=
- ((__psunsigned_t)data & ~target->bt_smask)) {
- /* .. else double the size and try again */
- kmem_free(data, malloc_len);
- malloc_len <<= 1;
- goto try_again;
- }
-
- error = xfs_buf_associate_memory(bp, data, len);
- if (error)
+ for (i = 0; i < page_count; i++) {
+ bp->b_pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!bp->b_pages[i])
+ goto fail_free_mem;
+ }
+ bp->b_flags |= _XBF_PAGES;
+
+ error = _xfs_buf_map_pages(bp, XBF_MAPPED);
+ if (unlikely(error)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: failed to map pages\n",
+ __FUNCTION__);
goto fail_free_mem;
- bp->b_flags |= _XBF_KMEM_ALLOC;
+ }

xfs_buf_unlock(bp);

XB_TRACE(bp, "no_daddr", data);
return bp;
+
fail_free_mem:
- kmem_free(data, malloc_len);
+ for ( ; i >= 0; i++)
+ __free_page(bp->b_pages[i]);
fail_free_buf:
xfs_buf_free(bp);
fail:
Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h 2007-03-05 15:54:40.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h 2007-03-05 15:55:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@

/* flags used only internally */
_XBF_PAGE_CACHE = (1 << 17),/* backed by pagecache */
- _XBF_KMEM_ALLOC = (1 << 18),/* backed by kmem_alloc() */
+ _XBF_PAGES = (1 << 18), /* backed by refcounted pages */
_XBF_RUN_QUEUES = (1 << 19),/* run block device task queue */
_XBF_DELWRI_Q = (1 << 21), /* buffer on delwri queue */
} xfs_buf_flags_t;