Richard Yao
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The current code contains a race condition that triggers when bit 2 in spl.spl_kmem_cache_expire is set, spl_kmem_cache_reap_now() is invoked and another thread is concurrently accessing its magazine. spl_kmem_cache_reap_now() currently invokes spl_cache_flush() on each magazine in the same thread when bit 2 in spl.spl_kmem_cache_expire is set. This is unsafe because there is one magazine per CPU and the magazines are lockless, so it is impossible to guarentee that another CPU is not using its magazine when this function is called. The solution is to only touch the local CPU's magazine and leave other CPU's magazines to other CPUs. Reported-by: DHE Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #274
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 do not want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially released tarball you will need to generate the configure script. This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing the GNU autotools for your distribution.
To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin compilation:
$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org