use to synchornize and protect all data objects that are used for that
SIM. Drivers that are not yet MPSAFE register Giant and operate as
usual. RIght now, no drivers are MPSAFE, though a few will be changed
in the coming week as this work settles down.
The driver API has changed, so all CAM drivers will need to be recompiled.
The userland API has not changed, so tools like camcontrol do not need to
be recompiled.
Linux SCSI SG passthrough device API. The intention is to allow for both
running of Linux apps that want to talk to /dev/sg* nodes, and to facilitate
porting of apps from Linux to FreeBSD. As such, both native and linuxolator
entry points and definitions are provided.
Caveats:
- This does not support the procfs and sysfs nodes that the Linux SG
driver provides. Some Linux apps may rely on these for operation,
others may only use them for informational purposes.
- More ioctls need to be implemented.
- Linux uses a naming scheme of "sg[a-z]" for devices, while FreeBSD uses a
scheme of "sg[0-9]". Devfs aliasis (symlinks) are automatically created
to link the two together. However, tools like camcontrol only see the
native names.
- Some operations were originally designed to return byte counts or other
data directly as the syscall return value. The linuxolator doesn't appear
to support this well, so this driver just punts for these cases.
Now that the driver is in place, others are welcome to add missing
functionality. Thanks to Roman Divacky for pushing this work along.
rescan requests. The purpose of this is to allow a SIM
(or other entities) to request a bus rescan and have it
then fielded in a different (process) context from the
caller.
There are probably better ways to accomplish this, but
it's a very small change that helps solve a number of
problems.
Reviewed by: Justin, Ken and Scott.
MFC after: 2 weeks
flash card reader.
Also remove an 'Opened da0 -> <random number>' which is not needed on a daily
basis (available through bootverbose).
Reviewed by: phk, ken
MFC after: 1 week
author can't remember why it was there.
The CTS_SCSI_FLAGS_TAG_ENB remains in place, and makes sense, and is
checked all over the place.
The CTS_SPI_FLAGS_TAG_ENB was probably an attempt to distinguish
protocol and transport tag capabilities. At the very least this can
be confusing and prone to many bugs, so let's just assume that the
transport tag case just flows from the protocol (and vice versa)
for now.
the ORDERED tag. This recoups significant performance gains for many
arrays.
The default is still to send out the ORDERED tag periodically.
Reviewed by: scsi (justin+timeout)
the CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE that has been in the tree for some years now.
This first step consists solely of adding to or correcting
CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE pieces in the kernel source tree such
that a both a GENERIC (at least on i386) and a LINT build
with CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE as an option will compile correctly
and run (at least with some the h/w I have).
After a short settle time, the other pieces (making
CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE the default and updating libcam
and camcontrol) will be brought in.
This will be an incompatible change in that the size of structures
related to XPT_PATH_INQ and XPT_{GET,SET}_TRAN_SETTINGS change
in both size and content. However, basic system operation and
basic system utilities work well enough with this change.
Reviewed by: freebsd-scsi and specific stakeholders
and CAM_RESRC_UNAVAIL returns. Delay a tunable amount for
either between retries.
This came up because the MPT IOC was returning "IOC out of
resources" for some user and this caused a CAM_RESRC_UNAVAIL
return. Putting a bit of delay between retries helped them
out.
There was some discussion that an async event should be used
to clear CAM_RESRC_UNAVAIL. That's probably a better notion
eventually.
Reviewed by: scsi@freebsd.org (ade, scott)
MFC after: 1 week
