freebsd-nq/share/man/man9/cd.9
Kenneth D. Merry cb32189e23 Move dynamic sysctl(8) variable creation for the cd(4) and da(4) drivers
out of cdregister() and daregister(), which are run from interrupt context.

The sysctl code does blocking mallocs (M_WAITOK), which causes problems
if malloc(9) actually needs to sleep.

The eventual fix for this issue will involve moving the CAM probe process
inside a kernel thread.  For now, though, I have fixed the issue by moving
dynamic sysctl variable creation for these two drivers to a task queue
running in a kernel thread.

The existing task queues (taskqueue_swi and taskqueue_swi_giant) run in
software interrupt handlers, which wouldn't fix the problem at hand.  So I
have created a new task queue, taskqueue_thread, that runs inside a kernel
thread.  (It also runs outside of Giant -- clients must explicitly acquire
and release Giant in their taskqueue functions.)

scsi_cd.c:	Remove sysctl variable creation code from cdregister(), and
		move it to a new function, cdsysctlinit().  Queue
		cdsysctlinit() to the taskqueue_thread taskqueue once we
		have fully registered the cd(4) driver instance.

scsi_da.c:	Remove sysctl variable creation code from daregister(), and
		move it to move it to a new function, dasysctlinit().
		Queue dasysctlinit() to the taskqueue_thread taskqueue once
		we have fully registered the da(4) instance.

taskqueue.h:	Declare the new taskqueue_thread taskqueue, update some
		comments.

subr_taskqueue.c:
		Create the new kernel thread taskqueue.  This taskqueue
		runs outside of Giant, so any functions queued to it would
		need to explicitly acquire/release Giant if they need it.

cd.4:		Update the cd(4) man page to talk about the minimum command
		size sysctl/loader tunable.  Also note that the changer
		variables are available as loader tunables as well.

da.4:		Update the da(4) man page to cover the retry_count,
		default_timeout and minimum_cmd_size sysctl variables/loader
		tunables.  Remove references to /dev/r???, they aren't used
		any longer.

cd.9:		Update the cd(9) man page to describe the CD_Q_10_BYTE_ONLY
		quirk.

taskqueue.9:	Update the taskqueue(9) man page to describe the new thread
		task queue, and the taskqueue_swi_giant queue.

MFC after:	3 days
2003-09-03 04:46:28 +00:00

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.Dd September 2, 2003
.Dt CD 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm cd
.Nd CDROM driver for the CAM SCSI subsystem
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
device driver provides a read only interface for CDROM drives
.Tn ( SCSI
type 5)
and WORM drives
.Tn ( SCSI
type 4)
that support CDROM type commands.
Some drives don't behave as the driver expects. See the section
QUIRKS for info on possible flags.
.Sh QUIRKS
Each
.Tn CD-ROM
device can have different interpretations of the
.Tn SCSI
spec. This can lead to drives requiring special handling in the driver. The
following is a list of quirks that the driver recognize.
.Bl -tag -width CD_Q_BCD_TRACKS
.It Dv CD_Q_NO_TOUCH
This flag tell the driver not to probe the drive at attach time to see if
there is a disk in the drive and find out what size it is. This flag is
currently unimplemented in the CAM
.Nm
driver.
.It Dv CD_Q_BCD_TRACKS
This flag is for broken drives that return the track numbers in packed BCD
instead of straight decimal. If the drive seems to skip tracks
(tracks 10-15 are skipped)
then you have a drive that is in need of this flag.
.It Dv CD_Q_NO_CHANGER
This flag tells the driver that the device in question is not a changer.
This is only necessary for a CDROM device with multiple luns that are not a
part of a changer.
.It Dv CD_Q_CHANGER
This flag tells the driver that the given device is a multi-lun changer.
In general, the driver will figure this out automatically when it sees a
LUN greater than 0. Setting this flag only has the effect of telling the
driver to run the initial read capacity command for LUN 0 of the changer
through the changer scheduling code.
.It Dv CD_Q_10_BYTE_ONLY
This flag tells the driver that the given device only accepts 10 byte MODE
SENSE/MODE SELECT commands. In general these types of quirks should not be
added to the
.Xr cd 4
driver. The reason is that the driver does several things to attempt to
determine whether the drive in question needs 10 byte commands. First, it
issues a CAM Path Inquiry command to determine whether the protocol that
the drive speaks typically only allows 10 byte commands. (ATAPI and USB
are two prominent examples of protocols where you generally only want to
send 10 byte commands.) Then, if it gets an ILLEGAL REQUEST error back
from a 6 byte MODE SENSE or MODE SELECT command, it attempts to send the 10
byte version of the command instead. The only reason you would need a
quirk is if your drive uses a protocol (e.g.
.Tn SCSI )
that typically doesn't have a problem with 6 byte commands.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /sys/cam/scsi/scsi_cd.c -compact
.It Pa /sys/cam/scsi/scsi_cd.c
is the driver source file.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cd 4 ,
.Xr scsi 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
manual page first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
This
manual page was written by
.An John-Mark Gurney Aq gurney_j@efn.org .
It was updated for CAM and
.Fx 3.0
by
.An Kenneth Merry Aq ken@FreeBSD.org .