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The main complication from the RT patch set is that the RW semaphore locks change such that read locks on an rwsem can be taken only by a single thread. All other threads are locked out. This single thread can take a read lock multiple times though. The underlying implementation changes to a mutex with an additional read_depth count. The implementation can be best understood by inspecting the RT patch. rwsem_rt.h and rt.c give the best insight into how RT rwsem works. My implementation for rwsem_tryupgrade is basically an inversion of rt_downgrade_write found in rt.c. Please see the comments in the code. Unfortunately, I have to drop SPLAT rwlock test4 completely as this test tries to take multiple locks from different threads, which RT rwsems do not support. Otherwise SPLAT, zconfig.sh, zpios-sanity.sh and zfs-tests.sh pass on my Debian-testing VM with the kernel linux-image-4.8.0-1-rt-amd64. Tested-by: kernelOfTruth <kerneloftruth@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens@endorphin.org> Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#5491 Closes #589 Closes #308 |
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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