9425 allow channel programs to be stopped via signals

illumos/illumos-gate@d0cb1fb92629bc0283c88d4719df7285c1612700
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/d0cb1fb92629bc0283c88d4719df7285c1612700

https://www.illumos.org/issues/9425
  Problem Statement

  ZFS Channel program scripts currently require a timeout, so that hung
  or long- running scripts return a timeout error instead of causing ZFS
  to get wedged.  This limit can currently be set up to 100 million Lua
  instructions. Even with a limit in place, it would be desirable to
  have a sys admin (support engineer) be able to cancel a script that is
  taking a long time.

  Proposed Solution

  Make it possible to abort a channel program by sending an interrupt
  signal.In the underlying txg_wait_sync function, switch the cv_wait to
  a cv_wait_sig to catch the signal. Once a signal is encountered, the
  dsl_sync_task function can install a Lua hook that will get called
  before the Lua interpreter executes a new line of code. The
  dsl_sync_task can resume with a standard txg_wait_sync call and wait
  for the txg to complete. Meanwhile, the hook will abort the script and
  indicate that the channel program was canceled. The kernel returns a
  EINTR to indicate that the channel program run was canceled.

Author: Don Brady <don.brady@delphix.com>

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