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In the module unload path the vm_file_cache was being destroyed under a spin lock. Because this operation might sleep it was possible, although very very unlikely, that this could result in a deadlock. This issue was indentified by using a Linux debug kernel and has been fixed by moving the kmem_cache_destroy() out from under the spin lock. There is no need to lock this operation here. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#771
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