1. Extend geom_dev by having it create the symlink (i.e. call
make_dev_alias) based on the DIOCGPROVIDERALIAS ioctl.
In this way the functionaility is generic and thus usable
by any geom/provider.
2. Have g_part handle said ioctl through the devalias method,
so that it's under control of the scheme itself. By design
the alias will not be created for newly added partitions.
Now that make_dev() doesn't require unit numbers to be unique, there is
no need to use an unrhdr here to generate the numbers. Remove the entire
init-routine, because it is optional.
When I changed kern_conf.c three months ago I made device unit numbers
equal to (unneeded) device minor numbers. We used to require
bitshifting, because there were eight bits in the middle that were
reserved for a device major number. Not very long after I turned
dev2unit(), minor(), unit2minor() and minor2unit() into macro's.
The unit2minor() and minor2unit() macro's were no-ops.
We'd better not remove these four macro's from the kernel, because there
is a lot of (external) code that may still depend on them. For now it's
harmless to remove all invocations of unit2minor() and minor2unit().
Reviewed by: kib
- Add a routine for looking up a device and checking if it is a valid geom
provider given a partial or full path to its device node.
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
Even though we got rid of device major numbers some time ago, device
drivers still need to provide unique device minor numbers to make_dev().
These numbers are only used inside the kernel. They are not related to
device major and minor numbers which are visible in devfs. These are
actually based on the inode number of the device.
It would eventually be nice to remove minor numbers entirely, but we
don't want to be too agressive here.
Because the 8-15 bits of the device number field (si_drv0) are still
reserved for the major number, there is no 1:1 mapping of the device
minor and unit numbers. Because this is now unused, remove the
restrictions on these numbers.
The MAXMAJOR definition was actually used for two purposes. It was used
to convert both the userspace and kernelspace device numbers to their
major/minor pair, which is why it is now named UMINORMASK.
minor2unit() and unit2minor() have now become useless. Both minor() and
dev2unit() now serve the same purpose. We should eventually remove some
of them, at least turning them into macro's. If devfs would become
completely minor number unaware, we could consider using si_drv0 directly,
just like si_drv1 and si_drv2.
Approved by: philip (mentor)
or any other bio chopping geom a reasonable size of work.
Check for delivered signals between chunks, because the request size
and service time is unbounded.
DIOCGFLUSH - Flush write cache (sends BIO_FLUSH).
DIOCGDELETE - Delete data (mark as unused) (sends BIO_DELETE).
DIOCGIDENT - Get provider's uniqe and fixed identifier (asks for
GEOM::ident attribute).
First two are self-explanatory, but the last one might not be. Here are
properties of provider's ident:
- ident value is preserved between reboots,
- provider can be detached/attached and ident is preserved,
- provider's name can change - ident can't,
- ident value should not be based on on-disk metadata; in other words
copying whole data from one disk to another should not yield the same
ident for the other disk,
- there could be more than one provider with the same ident, but only if
they point at exactly the same physical storage, this is the case for
multipathing for example,
- GEOM classes that consumes single providers and provide single providers,
like geli, gbde, should just attach class name to the ident of the
underlying provider,
- ident is an ASCII string (is printable),
- ident is optional and applications can't relay on its presence.
The main purpose for this is that application and remember provider's ident
and once it tries to open provider by its name again, it may compare idents
to be sure this is the right provider. If it is not (idents don't match),
then it can open provider by its ident.
OK'ed by: phk
offset or request size which is not a multiple of the sector size, make
sure that the bio is set to indicate that no data has actually been
transferred.
The result of this is that the file offset is no longer incremented for
these requests. The fact that the file offset was incremented broke
fdisk(8)'s probing of sector size for non-512 byte sector sizes.
Reviewed by: phk, cperciva
Submitted by: mdodd
MFC after: 2 weeks
buf->b-dev.
Put a bio between the buf passed to dev_strategy() and the device driver
strategy routine in order to not clobber fields in the buf.
Assert copyright on vfs_bio.c and update copyright message to canonical
text. There is no legal difference between John Dysons two-clause
abbreviated BSD license and the canonical text.
The big lines are:
NODEV -> NULL
NOUDEV -> NODEV
udev_t -> dev_t
udev2dev() -> findcdev()
Various minor adjustments including handling of userland access to kernel
space struct cdev etc.
Introduce d_version field in struct cdevsw, this must always be
initialized to D_VERSION.
Flip sense of D_NOGIANT flag to D_NEEDGIANT, this involves removing
four D_NOGIANT flags and adding 145 D_NEEDGIANT flags.
shown that it is not useful.
Rename the relative count g_access_rel() function to g_access(), only
the name has changed.
Change all g_access_rel() calls in our CVS tree to call g_access() instead.
Add an #ifndef BURN_BRIDGES #define of g_access_rel() for source
code compatibility.
This replaces the current ioctl processing with a direct call path
from geom_dev() where the ioctl arrives (from SPECFS) to any directly
connected GEOM class.
The inverse of the above is no longer supported. This is the
situation were you have one or more intervening GEOM classes, for
instance a BSDlabel on top of a MBR or PC98. If you want to issue
MBR or PC98 specific ioctls, you will need to issue them on a MBR
or PC98 providers.
This paves the way for inviting CD's, FD's and other special cases
inside GEOM.
still outstanding, give them a chance to complete.
If after 10 seconds we still find outstanding I/O requests, complete
the close with a console warning that the system is likely to panic
later on.
This is a workaround for umount -f not quite doing the right thing.
Approved by: re/scottl
KASSERT the race between close and strategy, it is an error in the upper
echelons if this happens,
Add XXX: comment explaining why the ioctl/orphan race is not closed.
