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Richard Yao d4bf6d8429 Disable direct reclaim in taskq worker threads on Linux 3.9+
Illumos does not have direct reclaim and code run inside taskq worker
threads is not designed to deal with it. Allowing direct reclaim inside
a worker thread can therefore deadlock. We set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO through
memalloc_noio_save() to indicate to the kernel's reclaim code that we
are inside a context where memory allocations cannot be allowed to block
on filesystem activity.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#1274
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#2390
Closes #474
2015-09-09 14:30:47 -07:00
cmd Retire legacy debugging infrastructure 2014-11-19 10:35:07 -08:00
config Default to --disable-debug-kmem 2015-07-21 11:47:10 -07:00
include Restructure uio to accommodate bio_vec 2015-08-24 10:10:21 -07:00
lib Remove autotools products 2012-08-27 11:46:23 -07:00
man Add defclsyspri macro 2015-07-23 13:25:49 -07:00
module Disable direct reclaim in taskq worker threads on Linux 3.9+ 2015-09-09 14:30:47 -07:00
rpm Tag spl-0.6.4 2015-04-08 14:03:42 -07:00
scripts Support parallel build trees (VPATH builds) 2015-07-17 12:53:11 -07:00
.gitignore Ignore *.{deb,rpm,tar.gz} files in the top directory. 2013-04-24 16:18:14 -07:00
AUTHORS Refresh AUTHORS 2012-12-19 09:40:18 -08:00
autogen.sh build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 11:08:46 -07:00
configure.ac Add RHEL style kmod packages 2015-03-27 14:42:04 -07:00
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
DISCLAIMER Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
Makefile.am Support parallel build trees (VPATH builds) 2015-07-17 12:53:11 -07:00
META Tag spl-0.6.4 2015-04-08 14:03:42 -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