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While porting Illumos #3537 I found that ks_lock member of kstat_t structure is different between Illumos and SPL. It is a pointer to the kmutex_t in Illumos, but the mutex lock itself in SPL. Apparently Illumos kstat API allows consumer to override the lock if required. With SPL implementation it is not possible anymore. Things were alright until the first attempt to actually override the lock. Porting of Illumos #3537 introduced such code for the first time. In order to provide the Solaris/Illumos like functionality we: 1. convert ks_lock to "kmutex_t *ks_lock" 2. create a new field "kmutex_t ks_private_lock" 3. On kstat_create() ks_lock = &ks_private_lock Thus if consumer doesn't care we still have our internal lock in use. If, however, consumer does care she has a chance to set ks_lock to anything else before calling kstat_install(). The rest of the code will use ks_lock regardless of its origin. Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Issue #286 |
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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