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Under certain circumstances the following functions may be called in a context where KM_SLEEP is unsafe and can result in a deadlocked system. To avoid this problem the unconditional KM_SLEEPs are converted to KM_PUSHPAGEs. This will prevent them from attempting to initiate any I/O during direct reclaim. This change was originally part of cd5ca4b but was reverted by 330fe01. It always should have had its own commit for exactly this reason. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
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
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