When the SPL was originally written it was designed to use the
device_create() and device_destroy() functions. Unfortunately,
these functions changed considerably over the years making them
difficult to rely on.
As it turns out a better choice would have been to use the
misc_register()/misc_deregister() functions. This interface
for registering character devices has remained stable, is simple,
and provides everything we need.
Therefore the code has been reworked to use this interface. The
higher level ZFS code has always depended on these same interfaces
so this is also as a step towards minimizing our kernel dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Update links to refer to the official ZFS on Linux website instead of
@behlendorf's personal fork on github.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
While the splat tests were originally designed to stress test
the Solaris primatives. I am extending them to include some kernel
compatibility tests. Certain linux APIs have changed frequently.
These tests ensure that added compatibility is working properly
and no unnoticed regression have slipped in.
Test 1 and 2 add basic regression tests for shrink_icache_memory
and shrink_dcache_memory. These are simply functional tests to
ensure we can call these functions safely. Checking for correct
behavior is more difficult since other running processes will
influence the behavior. However, these functions are provided
by the kernel so if we can successfully call them we assume they
are working correctly.
Test 3 checks that shrinker functions are being registered and
called correctly. As of Linux 3.0 the shrinker API has changed
four different times so I felt the need to add a trivial test
case to ensure each variant works as expected.
A zlib regression test has been added to verify the correct behavior
of z_compress_level() and z_uncompress. The test case simply takes
a 128k buffer, it compresses the buffer, it them uncompresses the
buffer, and finally it compares the buffers after the transform.
If the buffers match then everything is fine and no data was lost.
It performs this test for all 9 zlib compression levels.
Updated AUTHORS, COPYING, DISCLAIMER, and INSTALL files. Added
standardized headers to all source file to clearly indicate the
copyright, license, and to give credit where credit is due.
The previous credential implementation simply provided the needed types and
a couple of dummy functions needed. This update correctly ties the basic
Solaris credential API in to one of two Linux kernel APIs.
Prior to 2.6.29 the linux kernel embeded all credentials in the task
structure. For these kernels, we pass around the entire task struct as if
it were the credential, then we use the helper functions to extract the
credential related bits.
As of 2.6.29 a new credential type was added which we can and do fairly
cleanly layer on top of. Once again the helper functions nicely hide
the implementation details from all callers.
Three tests were added to the splat test framework to verify basic
correctness. They should be extended as needed when need credential
functions are added.
- Proper ioctl() 32/64-bit binary compatibility. We need to ensure the
ioctl data itself is always packed the same for 32/64-bit binaries.
Additionally, the correct thing to do is encode this size in bytes
as part of the command using _IOC_SIZE().
- Minor formatting changes to respect the 80 character limit.
- Move all SPLAT_SUBSYSTEM_* defines in to splat-ctl.h.
- Increase SPLAT_SUBSYSTEM_UNKNOWN because we were getting close
to accidentally using it for a real registered subsystem.
- Initial SLES testing uncovered a long standing bug in the debug
tracing. The tcd_for_each() macro expected a NULL to terminate
the trace_data[i] array but this was only ever true due to luck.
All trace_data[] iterators are now properly capped by TCD_TYPE_MAX.
- SPLAT_MAJOR 229 conflicted with a 'hvc' device on my SLES system.
Since this was always an arbitrary choice I picked something else.
- The HAVE_PGDAT_LIST case should set pgdat_list_addr to the value stored
at the address of the memory location returned by kallsyms_lookup_name().
When SPLAT_TEST_INIT() initialized SPLAT_KMEM_TEST11_NAME the short
short test name overran the static length buffer of SPLAT_NAME_SIZE.
This was fixed by increasing the buffer length from 16 to 20 bytes.
were added to cover the 3 possible APIs from 2.6.9 to
2.6.26. We attempt to use the newest interfaces and if
not available fallback to the oldest. This a rework of
some changes proposed by Ricardo for RHEL4.
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ensure I never add anything to the stack I don't absolutely need.
All this debug code could be removed from a production build
anyway so I'm not so worried about the performance impact. We
may also consider revisting the mutex and condvar implementation
to ensure no additional stack is used there.
Initial indications are I have reduced the worst case stack
usage to 9080 bytes. Still to large for the default 8k stacks
so I have been forced to run with 16k stacks until I can
reduce the worst offenders.
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muck with #includes in existing Solaris style source to get it
to find the right stuff.
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- Removed all references to kzt and replaced with splat
- Moved portions of include files which do not need to be
available to all source files in to local.h files in
proper source subdirs.
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idea since it forcefully codifing the ABI. Since the shim
layer is no longer linked at build time in to the test suite
we can;'t cut any corners and get away with it.
Everything is working now with the exception of sorting
setting Module.symvers properly. This may take a little
Makefile reorg.
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in an initial reasonable autoconf style build system. This does
not yet build but the configure system does appear to work properly
and integrate with the kernel. Hopefully the next commit gets
us back to a buildable version we can run the test suite against.
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