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Brian Behlendorf 429fe89cee Consistently use local_irq_disable/local_irq_enable
It was observed that spl_kmem_cache_alloc() uses local_irq_save()
and saves the interrupt state in a local variable.  This would
normally be fine except that spl_kmem_cache_alloc() calls
spl_cache_refill() which re-enables interrupts.  It is then
possible that while interrupts are enabled the process is
rescheduled to a different cpu before being disable again.
This could result in us restoring the saved interrupt state
from one cpu to another.

What the consequences of this are aren't perfectly clear, but
this is clearly a bug and it has the potential to cause issues.
The code has been updated to just use local_irq_enable() and
local_irq_disable() to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-10-09 14:00:56 -07:00
cmd Refresh links to web site 2013-03-04 19:09:34 -08:00
config Linux 3.8 compat: Use kuid_t/kgid_t when required 2013-08-09 10:09:29 -07:00
include Add kpreempt() compatibility macro 2013-10-09 13:52:55 -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 Consistently use local_irq_disable/local_irq_enable 2013-10-09 14:00:56 -07:00
patches Reimplement rwlocks for Linux lock profiling/analysis. 2009-09-18 16:09:47 -07:00
rpm Tag spl-0.6.2 2013-08-16 15:17:35 -07:00
scripts Add kmod repo integration 2013-08-01 10:27:34 -07:00
.gitignore Ignore *.{deb,rpm,tar.gz} files in the top directory. 2013-04-24 16:18:14 -07:00
AUTHORS Refresh AUTHORS 2012-12-19 09:40:18 -08:00
COPYING Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
DISCLAIMER Public Release Prep 2010-05-17 15:18:00 -07:00
META Tag spl-0.6.2 2013-08-16 15:17:35 -07:00
Makefile.am build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 11:08:46 -07:00
README.markdown Document how to run SPLAT 2013-10-09 13:52:59 -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-...

The SPL comes with an automated test suite called SPLAT. The test suite is implemented in two parts. There is a kernel module which contains the tests and a user space utility which controls which tests are run. To run the full test suite:

$ sudo insmod ./module/splat/splat.ko
$ sudo ./cmd/splat --all

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