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Richard Yao 251e7a779b Fix race in spl_kmem_cache_reap_now()
The current code contains a race condition that triggers when bit 2 in
spl.spl_kmem_cache_expire is set, spl_kmem_cache_reap_now() is invoked
and another thread is concurrently accessing its magazine.

spl_kmem_cache_reap_now() currently invokes spl_cache_flush() on each
magazine in the same thread when bit 2 in spl.spl_kmem_cache_expire is
set. This is unsafe because there is one magazine per CPU and the
magazines are lockless, so it is impossible to guarentee that another
CPU is not using its magazine when this function is called.

The solution is to only touch the local CPU's magazine and leave other
CPU's magazines to other CPUs.

Reported-by: DHE
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #274
2013-08-08 09:14:41 -07:00
cmd Refresh links to web site 2013-03-04 19:09:34 -08:00
config Linux 3.10 compat: replace PDE()->data with PDE_DATA() 2013-07-08 15:14:21 -07:00
include Linux 3.11 compat: Replace num_physpages with totalram_pages 2013-08-08 09:14:29 -07:00
lib Remove autotools products 2012-08-27 11:46:23 -07:00
man Create splat man page 2013-03-19 13:47:12 -07:00
module Fix race in spl_kmem_cache_reap_now() 2013-08-08 09:14:41 -07:00
patches Reimplement rwlocks for Linux lock profiling/analysis. 2009-09-18 16:09:47 -07:00
rpm Add kmod repo integration 2013-08-01 10:27:34 -07:00
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COPYING Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
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META Tag spl-0.6.1 2013-03-25 13:46:47 -07:00
Makefile.am build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 11:08:46 -07:00
README.markdown Improve build instructions 2013-07-11 16:12:18 -07:00
autogen.sh build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 11:08:46 -07:00
configure.ac Automake 1.10.1 compat: AM_SILENT_RULES 2013-04-02 16:04:19 -07:00
copy-builtin Copy spl.release.in to kernel dir 2013-06-21 15:40:04 -07:00
spl.release.in Move spl.release generation to configure step 2012-07-12 12:13:47 -07:00

README.markdown

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-...

Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org