119 lines
3.8 KiB
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119 lines
3.8 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: physio.9,v 1.2 1996/11/11 00:05:12 lukem Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Paul Kranenburg.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
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.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its
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.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
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.\" from this software without specific prior written permission.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS
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.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
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.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
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.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 15, 1996
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.Dt PHYSIO 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm physio
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.Nd initiate I/O on raw devices
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/param.h
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.In sys/systm.h
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.In sys/bio.h
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.In sys/buf.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn physio "dev_t dev" "struct uio *uio" "int ioflag"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn physio
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is a helper function typically called from character device read and write
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routines to start I/O on a user process buffer.
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The maximum amount of data to transfer with each call
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is determined by:
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.Bd -literal
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dev->si_iosize_max
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Since
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.Fa uio
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normally describes user space addresses,
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.Fn physio
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needs to lock the process into memory. This is done by setting the
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.Dv P_PHYSIO
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flag on the process.
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.Fn physio
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always awaits the completion of the entire requested transfer before
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returning, unless an error condition is detected earlier.
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.Pp
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A break-down of the arguments follows:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fa dev
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The device number identifying the device to interact with.
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.It Fa uio
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The description of the entire transfer as requested by the user process.
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Currently, the results of passing a
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.Fa uio
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structure with the
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.Sq uio_segflg
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set to anything other than
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.Dv UIO_USERSPACE ,
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are undefined.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If successful
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.Fn physio
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returns 0.
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.Er EFAULT
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is returned if the address range described by
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.Fa uio
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is not accessible by the requesting process.
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.Fn physio
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will return any error resulting from calls to the device strategy routine,
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by examining the
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.Dv B_ERROR
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buffer flag and the
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.Va b_error
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field.
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Note that the actual transfer size may be less than requested by
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.Fa uio
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if the device signals an
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.Dq end of file
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condition.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr read 2 ,
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.Xr write 2
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Xr physio 9
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manual page is originally from NetBSD with minor changes for applicability
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with FreeBSD.
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.Pp
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The physio(9) call has been completely re-written for providing higher
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I/O performance, and better paging performance.
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