of the number of threads which are inside whatever is behind the
cdevsw for this particular cdev.
Make the device mutex visible through dev_lock() and dev_unlock().
We may want finer granularity later.
Replace spechash_mtx use with dev_lock()/dev_unlock().
too much kernel copying, but it is not the right way to do it, and it is
in the way for straightening out the buffer cache.
The right way is to pass the VM page array down through the struct
bio to the disk device driver and DMA directly in to/out off the
physical memory. Once the VM/buf thing is sorted out it is next on
the list.
Retire most of vnode method. ffs_getpages(). It is not clear if what is
left shouldn't be in the default implementation which we now fall back to.
Retire specfs_getpages() as well, as it has no users now.
preparation for integration of p4::phk_bufwork. In the future,
local filesystems will talk to GEOM directly and they will consequently
be able to issue BIO_DELETE directly. Since the removal of the fla
driver, BIO_DELETE has effectively been a no-op anyway.
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.
allocation and deallocation. This flag's principal use is shortly after
allocation. For such cases, clearing the flag is pointless. The only
unusual use of PG_ZERO is in vfs_bio_clrbuf(). However, allocbuf() never
requests a prezeroed page. So, vfs_bio_clrbuf() never sees a prezeroed
page.
Reviewed by: tegge@
were a rather overwhelming task. I soon learned that if you don't know
where you're going to store something, at least try to pile it next to
something slightly related in the hope that a pattern emerges.
Apply the same principle to the ffs/snapshot/softupdates code which have
leaked into specfs: Add yet a buf-quasi-method and call it from the
only two places I can see it can make a difference and implement the
magic in ffs_softdep.c where it belongs.
It's not pretty, but at least it's one less layer violated.
This is what we came here for: Hang dev_t's from their cdevsw,
refcount cdevsw and dev_t and generally keep track of things a lot
better than we used to:
Hold a cdevsw reference around all entrances into the device driver,
this will be necessary to safely determine when we can unload driver
code.
Hold a dev_t reference while the device is open.
KASSERT that we do not enter the driver on a non-referenced dev_t.
Remove old D_NAG code, anonymous dev_t's are not a problem now.
When destroy_dev() is called on a referenced dev_t, move it to
dead_cdevsw's list. When the refcount drops, free it.
Check that cdevsw->d_version is correct. If not, set all methods
to the dead_*() methods to prevent entrance into driver. Print
warning on console to this effect. The device driver may still
explode if it is also incompatible with newbus, but in that case
we probably didn't get this far in the first place.
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.
passes the fdidx from VOP_OPEN down.
This is for all I know the final API for this functionality, but
the locking semantics for messing with the filedescriptor from
the device driver are not settled at this time.
32K pages are selected. In spec_getpages() change the printf format
specifier and add an explicit cast so that we always print the field
as a long type.
- Create a new function bdone() which sets B_DONE and calls wakup(bp). This
is suitable for use as b_iodone for buf consumers who are not going
through the buf cache.
- Create a new function bwait() which waits for the buf to be done at a set
priority and with a specific wmesg.
- Replace several cases where the above functionality was implemented
without locking with the new functions.
Remove extraneous uses of vop_null, instead defering to the default op.
Rename vnode type "vfs" to the more descriptive "syncer".
Fix formatting for various filesystems that use vop_print.
that is protected by the vnode lock.
- Move B_SCANNED into b_vflags and call it BV_SCANNED.
- Create a vop_stdfsync() modeled after spec's sync.
- Replace spec_fsync, msdos_fsync, and hpfs_fsync with the stdfsync and some
fs specific processing. This gives all of these filesystems proper
behavior wrt MNT_WAIT/NOWAIT and the use of the B_SCANNED flag.
- Annotate the locking in buf.h
Previously all filesystems which relied on specfs to do devices
would have private overrides for vop_std*, so the vop_no* overrides
here had no effect. I overlooked the transitive nature of the vop
vectors when I removed the vop_std* in those filesystems.
Removing the override here restores device node locking to it's
previous modus operandi.
Spotted by: bde
to sort out disk-io from file-io in the vm/buffer/filesystem space.
The intent is to sort VOP_STRATEGY calls into those which operate
on "real" vnodes and those which operate on VCHR vnodes. For
the latter kind, the call will be changed to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY,
possibly conditionally for those places where dual-use happens.
Add a default VOP_SPECSTRATEGY method which will call the normal
VOP_STRATEGY. First time it is called it will print debugging
information. This will only happen if a normal vnode is passed
to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY by mistake.
Add a real VOP_SPECSTRATEGY in specfs, which does what VOP_STRATEGY
does on a VCHR vnode today.
Add a new VOP_STRATEGY method in specfs to catch instances where
the conversion to VOP_SPECSTRATEGY has not yet happened. Handle
the request just like we always did, but first time called print
debugging information.
Apart up to two instances of console messages per boot, this amounts
to a glorified no-op commit.
If you get any of the messages on your console I would very much
like a copy of them mailed to phk@freebsd.org
has a valid b_iocmd. Valid is any one of BIO_{READ,WRITE,DELETE}.
I have seen at least one case where the bio_cmd field was zero once the
request made it into GEOM. Putting the KASSERT here allows us to spot
the culprit in the backtrace.
check for and/or report I/O errors. The result is that a VFS_SYNC
or VOP_FSYNC called with MNT_WAIT could loop infinitely on ufs in
the presence of a hard error writing a disk sector or in a filesystem
full condition. This patch ensures that I/O errors will always be
checked and returned. This patch also ensures that every call to
VFS_SYNC or VOP_FSYNC with MNT_WAIT set checks for and takes
appropriate action when an error is returned.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
that works in the new threaded kernel. It was commented out of
the disksort routine earlier this year for the reasons given in
kern/subr_disklabel.c (which is where this code used to reside
before it moved to kern/subr_disk.c):
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revision 1.65
date: 2002/04/22 06:53:20; author: phk; state: Exp; lines: +5 -0
Comment out Kirks io-request priority hack until we can do this in a
civilized way which doesn't cause grief.
The problem is that it is not generally safe to cast a "struct bio
*" to a "struct buf *". Things like ccd, vinum, ata-raid and GEOM
constructs bio's which are not entrails of a struct buf.
Also, curthread may or may not have anything to do with the I/O request
at hand.
The correct solution can either be to tag struct bio's with a
priority derived from the requesting threads nice and have disksort
act on this field, this wouldn't address the "silly-seek syndrome"
where two equal processes bang the diskheads from one edge to the
other of the disk repeatedly.
Alternatively, and probably better: a sleep should be introduced
either at the time the I/O is requested or at the time it is completed
where we can be sure to sleep in the right thread.
The sleep also needs to be in constant timeunits, 1/hz can be practicaly
any sub-second size, at high HZ the current code practically doesn't
do anything.
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As suggested in this comment, it is no longer located in the disk sort
routine, but rather now resides in spec_strategy where the disk operations
are being queued by the thread that is associated with the process that
is really requesting the I/O. At that point, the disk queues are not
visible, so the I/O for positively niced processes is always slowed
down whether or not there is other activity on the disk.
On the issue of scaling HZ, I believe that the current scheme is
better than using a fixed quantum of time. As machines and I/O
subsystems get faster, the resolution on the clock also rises.
So, ten years from now we will be slowing things down for shorter
periods of time, but the proportional effect on the system will
be about the same as it is today. So, I view this as a feature
rather than a drawback. Hence this patch sticks with using HZ.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
