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Brian Behlendorf 3d5392cefa Remove kvasprintf() wrapper
The kvasprintf() function has been available since Linux 2.6.22.
There is no longer a need to maintain this compatibility code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2014-10-17 15:11:52 -07:00
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autogen.sh build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 11:08:46 -07:00
configure.ac Document SPL module parameters. 2013-11-21 12:32:41 -08:00
copy-builtin Copy spl.release.in to kernel dir 2013-06-21 15:40:04 -07:00
COPYING Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
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Makefile.am build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 11:08:46 -07:00
META Make license compatibility checks consistent 2014-10-17 15:07:28 -07:00
README.markdown Document how to run SPLAT 2013-10-09 13:52:59 -07:00
spl.release.in Move spl.release generation to configure step 2012-07-12 12:13:47 -07:00

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-...

The SPL comes with an automated test suite called SPLAT. The test suite is implemented in two parts. There is a kernel module which contains the tests and a user space utility which controls which tests are run. To run the full test suite:

$ sudo insmod ./module/splat/splat.ko
$ sudo ./cmd/splat --all

Full documentation for building, configuring, testing, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org