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The commit, cfc9a5c88f91f7b4d606fce89505e1f404691ea5, to fix deadlocks in zpl_writepage() relied on PF_MEMALLOC. That had the effect of disabling the direct reclaim path on all allocations originating from calls to this function, but it failed to address the actual cause of those deadlocks. This led to the same deadlocks being observed with swap on zvols, but not with swap on the loop device, which exercises this code. The use of PF_MEMALLOC also had the side effect of permitting allocations to be made from ZONE_DMA in instances that did not require it. This contributes to the possibility of panics caused by depletion of pages from ZONE_DMA. As such, we revert this patch in favor of a proper fix for both issues. Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Issue #726
Native ZFS for Linux! ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris. It has been successfully ported to FreeBSD and now there is a functional Linux ZFS kernel port too. The port currently includes a fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, and ZVOL with a ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL) on the way!
$ ./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 ZFS can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org