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uma: Improve M_USE_RESERVE handling in keg_fetch_slab()

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uma: Improve M_USE_RESERVE handling in keg_fetch_slab()

M_USE_RESERVE is used in a couple of places in the VM to avoid unbounded
recursion when the direct map is not available, as is the case on 32-bit
platforms or when certain kernel sanitizers (KASAN and KMSAN) are
enabled. For example, to allocate KVA, the kernel might allocate a
kernel map entry, which might require a new slab, which requires KVA.

For these zones, we use uma_prealloc() to populate a reserve of items,
and then in certain serialized contexts M_USE_RESERVE can be used to
guarantee a successful allocation. uma_prealloc() allocates the
requested number of items, distributing them evenly among NUMA domains.
Thus, in a first-touch zone, to satisfy an M_USE_RESERVE allocation we
might have to check the slab lists of other domains than the current one
to provide the semantics expected by consumers.

So, try harder to find an item if M_USE_RESERVE is specified and the keg
doesn't have anything for current (first-touch) domain. Specifically,
fall back to a round-robin slab allocation. This change fixes boot-time
panics on NUMA systems with KASAN or KMSAN enabled.[1]

Alternately we could have uma_prealloc() allocate the requested number
of items for each domain, but for some existing consumers this would be
quite wasteful. In general I think keg_fetch_slab() should try harder
to find free slabs in other domains before trying to allocate fresh
ones, but let's limit this to M_USE_RESERVE for now.

Also fix a separate problem that I noticed: in a non-round-robin slab
allocation with M_WAITOK, rather than sleeping after a failed slab
allocation we simply try again. Call vm_wait_domain() before retrying.

Reported by: mjg, tuexen [1]
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

(cherry picked from commit fab343a7168a2f033073bb5f65b5af17d9092c6f)

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markjAuthored on Nov 1 2021, 1:27 PM
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rG109330155000: module(9): Document that evhand can be NULL
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