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Brian Behlendorf b9b3715346 Return -1 for generic kmem cache shrinker
It has been observed that it's possible to get in a state where
shrink_slabs() will spin repeated invoking the generic kmem cache
shrinker.  It fails to detect it's not making forward progress
reclaiming from the cache and doesn't give up.  To ensure this
never occurs we unconditionally return -1 after reclaiming what
we can.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#1276
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#1598
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#1432
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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-...

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