xfs: use vmalloc instead of vm_map_area for buffer backing memory
The fallback buffer allocation path currently open codes a suboptimal version of vmalloc to allocate pages that are then mapped into vmalloc space. Switch to using vmalloc instead, which uses all the optimizations in the common vmalloc code, and removes the need to track the backing pages in the xfs_buf structure. Signed-off-by:Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by:
Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
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