I'm not sure why a credential was added to these in the first place, it is
not used anywhere and it doesn't make much sense:
The credentials for syncing a file (ability to write to the
file) should be checked at the system call level.
Credentials for syncing one or more filesystems ("none")
should be checked at the system call level as well.
If the filesystem implementation needs a particular credential
to carry out the syncing it would logically have to the
cached mount credential, or a credential cached along with
any delayed write data.
Discussed with: rwatson
This eliminates a bunch of vnode overhead (approx 1-2 % speed
improvement) and gives us more control over the access to the storage
device.
Access counts on the underlying device are not correctly tracked and
therefore it is possible to read-only mount the same disk device multiple
times:
syv# mount -p
/dev/md0 /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0 /mnt ufs ro 1 1
/dev/ad0 /mnt2 ufs ro 1 1
/dev/ad0 /mnt3 ufs ro 1 1
Since UFS/FFS is not a synchrousely consistent filesystem (ie: it caches
things in RAM) this is not possible with read-write mounts, and the system
will correctly reject this.
Details:
Add a geom consumer and a bufobj pointer to ufsmount.
Eliminate the vnode argument from softdep_disk_prewrite().
Pick the vnode out of bp->b_vp for now. Eventually we
should find it through bp->b_bufobj->b_private.
In the mountcode, use g_vfs_open() once we have used
VOP_ACCESS() to check permissions.
When upgrading and downgrading between r/o and r/w do the
right thing with GEOM access counts. Remove all the
workarounds for not being able to do this with VOP_OPEN().
If we are the root mount, drop the exclusive access count
until we upgrade to r/w. This allows fsck of the root
filesystem and the MNT_RELOAD to work correctly.
Set bo_private to the GEOM consumer on the device bufobj.
Change the ffs_ops->strategy function to call g_vfs_strategy()
In ufs_strategy() directly call the strategy on the disk
bufobj. Same in rawread.
In ffs_fsync() we will no longer see VCHR device nodes, so
remove code which synced the filesystem mounted on it, in
case we came there. I'm not sure this code made sense in
the first place since we would have taken the specfs route
on such a vnode.
Redo the highly bogus readblock() function in the snapshot
code to something slightly less bogus: Constructing an uio
and using physio was really quite a detour. Instead just
fill in a bio and ship it down.
We keep si_bsize_phys around for now as that is the simplest way to pull
the number out of disk device drivers in devfs_open(). The correct solution
would be to do an ioctl(DIOCGSECTORSIZE), but the point is probably mooth
when filesystems sit on GEOM, so don't bother for now.
Add bufobj_wref(), bufobj_wdrop() and bufobj_wwait() to handle the write
count on a bufobj. Bufobj_wdrop() replaces vwakeup().
Use these functions all relevant places except in ffs_softdep.c where
the use if interlocked_sleep() makes this impossible.
Rename b_vnbufs to b_bobufs now that we touch all the relevant files anyway.
