Along with the addition of signed kernel modules in newer kernel
we have a few new build products we need to ignore. LKLM has the
whole thread for those interested: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/14/164
The script has been updated to download the latest documentations
packages for Solaris and extract the needed ZFS man pages. These
will still need a little markup to handle changes between the
Solaris and Linux versions of ZFS. Howver, they should be pretty
minor I've tried hard to keep the interface the same.
In additional to the script update the zdb, zfs, and zpool man
pages have been added to the repo.
With this patch applied I get the following failure 100% of the time,
I'd prefer to debug it and keep moving forward but I do not have the
time right now so I'm reverting the patch to the version which worked.
Ricardo please fix.
(gdb) bt
0 ztest_dmu_write_parallel (za=0x2aaaac898960) at
../../cmd/ztest/ztest.c:2566
1 0x0000000000405a79 in ztest_thread (arg=<value optimized out>)
at ../../cmd/ztest/ztest.c:3862
2 0x00002b2e6a7a841d in zk_thread_helper (arg=<value optimized out>)
at ../../lib/libzpool/kernel.c:131
3 0x000000379be06367 in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>)
at pthread_create.c:297
4 0x000000379b2d30ad in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
This resolves previous scalabily concerns about the cost of calling
curthread which previously required a list walk. The kthread address
is now tracked as thread specific data which can be quickly returned.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The intent here is to fully remove the previous Solaris thread
implementation so we don't need to simulate both Solaris kernel
and user space thread APIs. The few user space consumers of the
thread API have been updated to use the kthread API. In order
to support this we needed to more fully support the kthread API
and that means not doing crazy things like casting a thread id
to a pointer and using that as was done before. This first
implementation is not effecient but it does provide all the
corrent semantics. If/when performance becomes and issue we
can and should just natively adopt pthreads which is portable.
Let me finish by saying I'm not proud of any of this and I would
love to see it improved. However, this slow implementation does
at least provide all the correct kthread API semantics whereas
the previous method of casting the thread ID to a pointer was
dodgy at best.
code to only use the kthread API regardless of if it is compiled in the
kernel or user space. The kthread API will be layered on top of pthreads
as best as possible in zfs_context, this is non optimal but much clearer.
Brian Behlendorf
Ricardo M. Correia