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authordbavatar <[email protected]>2017-08-24 13:48:23 -0400
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2017-08-24 10:48:23 -0700
commit2209e40981e887c773914ec0f3b73cedf45ddb7d (patch)
tree3184936f39ef8d3081ee24a1d06a594c49f916ed /config
parent076e9b946ef7a706ce2926c29912c467cdeddab6 (diff)
Linux 4.8+ compatibility fix for vm stats
vm_node_stat must be used instead of vm_zone_stat. Unfortunately the old code still compiles potentially leading to silent failure of arc_evictable_memory() AKAMAI: CR 3816601: Regression in zfs dropcache test Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Chunwei Chen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <[email protected]> Closes #6528
Diffstat (limited to 'config')
-rw-r--r--config/kernel-vm_node_stat.m422
-rw-r--r--config/kernel.m41
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/config/kernel-vm_node_stat.m4 b/config/kernel-vm_node_stat.m4
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e1c42f884
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/kernel-vm_node_stat.m4
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+dnl #
+dnl # 4.8 API change
+dnl # kernel vm counters change
+dnl #
+AC_DEFUN([ZFS_AC_KERNEL_VM_NODE_STAT], [
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether to use vm_node_stat based fn's])
+ ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE([
+ #include <linux/mm.h>
+ #include <linux/vmstat.h>
+ ],[
+ int a __attribute__ ((unused)) = NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS;
+ long x __attribute__ ((unused)) =
+ atomic_long_read(&vm_node_stat[0]);
+ (void) global_node_page_state(0);
+ ],[
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+ AC_DEFINE(ZFS_GLOBAL_NODE_PAGE_STATE, 1,
+ [using global_node_page_state()])
+ ],[
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+ ])
+])
diff --git a/config/kernel.m4 b/config/kernel.m4
index e92a65987..3739f85fb 100644
--- a/config/kernel.m4
+++ b/config/kernel.m4
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([ZFS_AC_CONFIG_KERNEL], [
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_RENAME_WANTS_FLAGS
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_HAVE_GENERIC_SETXATTR
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_CURRENT_TIME
+ ZFS_AC_KERNEL_VM_NODE_STAT
AS_IF([test "$LINUX_OBJ" != "$LINUX"], [
KERNELMAKE_PARAMS="$KERNELMAKE_PARAMS O=$LINUX_OBJ"