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Richard Yao
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zfsonlinux/spl@2092cf68d8 used PF_MEMALLOC to workaround a bug in the Linux kernel where allocations did not honor the gfp flags passed to vmalloc(). Unfortunately, PF_MEMALLOC has the side effect of permitting allocations to allocate pages outside of ZONE_NORMAL. This has been observed to result in the depletion of ZONE_DMA32. A kernel patch is available in the Gentoo bug tracker for this issue. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416685 This negates any benefit PF_MEMALLOC provides, so we introduce an autotools check to disable the use of PF_MEMALLOC on systems with patched kernels. Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #126
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