Poul-Henning Kamp 7253da9c05 Implement DIOCBSDBB ioctl which overwrites first BBSIZE bytes of BSD
labeled disk.

This is complicated by the fact that BBSIZE is greater than the
PAGE_SIZE limit ioctl inflicts on arguments which are automatically
copied in.

As long as we don't need access to userland memory (copyin/out) we
can deal with the ioctl using g_callme() which executes it from the
GEOM event thread.

Once we need copyin/out, we need to return the bio with EDIRIOCTL
in order to make geom_dev call us back in the original process context
where copyin will work.

Unfortunately, that results in us getting called with Giant, so
we have to DROP_GIANT/PICKUP_GIANT around the code where we diddle
GEOMs internals.

Sometimes you just can't win...

... But it does make geom_bsd.c an almost complete example of the
GEOM beastiarium.
2003-01-26 21:54:36 +00:00
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