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Brian Behlendorf
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As of linux-2.6.35 the shrinker callback API now takes an additional argument. The shrinker struct is passed to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure in private data and use container_of() to access it. This removes the need to always use global state for the shrinker. To handle this we add the SPL_AC_3ARGS_SHRINKER_CALLBACK autoconf check to properly detect the API. Then we simply setup a callback function with the correct number of arguments. For now we do not make use of the new 3rd argument.
The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris development closely and don’t want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org