This is a completely rewritten scsipi_xfer execution engine, and the
associated changes to HBA drivers. Overview of changes & features:
- All xfers are queued in the mid-layer, rather than doing so in an
ad-hoc fashion in individual adapter drivers.
- Adapter/channel resource management in the mid-layer, avoids even trying
to start running an xfer if the adapter/channel doesn't have the resources.
- Better communication between the mid-layer and the adapters.
- Asynchronous event notification mechanism from adapter to mid-layer and
peripherals.
- Better peripheral queue management: freeze/thaw, sorted requeueing during
recovery, etc.
- Clean separation of peripherals, adapters, and adapter channels (no more
scsipi_link).
- Kernel thread for each scsipi_channel makes error recovery much easier
(no more dealing with interrupt context when recovering from an error).
- Mid-layer support for tagged queueing: commands can have the tag type
set explicitly, tag IDs are allocated in the mid-layer (thus eliminating
the need to use buggy tag ID allocation schemes in many adapter drivers).
- support for QUEUE FULL and CHECK CONDITION status in mid-layer; the command
will be requeued, or a REQUEST SENSE will be sent as appropriate.
Just before the merge syssrc has been tagged with thorpej_scsipi_beforemerge
saves about 2.2MB under /usr/include/dev/. Discussed on tech-kern@
recently.
I HOPE to get the list right. The headers I left in are ones
used for MI tools and those whose usage I discovered by grep over tree sources.
Feel free to put needed includes back in if you encounter anything which
should not be removed from lists.
the number of partitions is > OLDMAXPARTITIONS. This is better
than silently truncating the label (don't want to silently throw
away partitions when using an old disklabel binary on a label with
> 8 partitions). From Enami Tsugutomo.
we have it.
* st_unmount(): reset density to the device default. This prevents using
stale density values after changing to a medium with different density.
Section 9.3.3 of the SCSI specs states that a device shall return the
density value specified in the last succesfull MODE SELECT after an
unload operation, in case it is not able to automatically determine
the density of the new medium.
after all, probing the device for acceptable parameters.
* In st_loadquirks(), copy mode-specific quirks from the quirk table
to `st_softc'; otherwise all such quirks save ST_Q_FORCE_BLKSIZE are ignored.
it when considering whether to attach devices. This is to facilitate
`non-SCSI' RAID controller drivers that want to provide SCSI pass-through
services to the kernel.
to be obeying the original spec as to what the numeric value means.
Temperature flags are unaffected- these are still the 'pseudo-thermometers'
and overtemp/undertemp warnings will be caught and translated to SES objects
here.
drochner