need to understand the locking around that field. Instead of setting
B_ERROR, set b_error instead. b_error is 'owned' by whoever completes
the I/O request.
config_handle_wedges() and read_disk_sectors(). On x86, handle_wedges()
is a thin wrapper for config_handle_wedges(). Share opendisk()
across architectures.
Add kernel code in support of specifying a root partition by wedge
name. E.g., root specifications "wedge:wd0a", "wedge:David's Root
Volume" are possible. (Patches for config(1) coming soon.)
In support of moving disks between architectures (esp. i386 <->
evbmips), I've written a routine convertdisklabel() that ensures
that the raw partition is at RAW_DISK by following these steps:
0 If we have read a disklabel that has a RAW_PART with
p_offset == 0 and p_size != 0, then use that raw partition.
1 If we have read a disklabel that has both partitions 'c'
and 'd', and RAW_PART has p_offset != 0 or p_size == 0,
but the other partition is suitable for a raw partition
(p_offset == 0, p_size != 0), then swap the two partitions
and use the new raw partition.
2 If the architecture's raw partition is 'd', and if there
is no partition 'd', but there is a partition 'c' that
is suitable for a raw partition, then copy partition 'c'
to partition 'd'.
3 Determine the drive's last sector, using either the
d_secperunit the drive reported, or by guessing (0x1fffffff).
If we cannot read the drive's last sector, then fail.
4 If we have read a disklabel that has no partition slot
RAW_PART, then create a partition RAW_PART. Make it span
the whole drive.
5 If there are fewer than MAXPARTITIONS partitions,
then "slide" the unsuitable raw partition RAW_PART, and
subsequent partitions, into partition slots RAW_PART+1
and subsequent slots. Create a raw partition at RAW_PART.
Make it span the whole drive.
The convertdisklabel() procedure can probably stand to be simplified,
but it ought to deal with all but an extraordinarily broken disklabel,
now.
i386: compiled and tested, sparc64: compiled, evbmips: compiled.
length separately.
Use this for foreign-endianess labels in wedge autodiscovery, and
calculate the checksum of those before we swap various fields in the
label.
version.
Add disk_blocksize(9) so that disk drivers can record the physical
block size of a disk if it is different to DEV_BSIZE. Right now this
simply initialises dk_blkshift and dk_byteshift according to the
supplied block size. This information is used in the MI version of
bounds_check_with_label().
for the disk.
- Add a new function, disk_ioctl(), that does generic disk ioctl handling.
DIOCGDISKINFO is handled here now, and others will be added in the future.
- In the wd driver, fill in the dk_info member of struct disk and use the
new disk_ioctl() function.
schemas. Disk information and disk geometry are designed to replace
information currently conveyed to user space using struct disklabel.
- Add a dk_info member to struct disk; a reference to a disk information
dictionary. This dictionary is to be allocated and the reference stored
in struct disk by individual drivers.
- disk_detach0() will release dk_info if non-NULL.
- Convert the wd(4) driver to stash geometry and other disk properties
as the "disk-info" property in its properties dictionary. This needs
some cleanup, but will serve as an example of what to do with other
disk drivers.
that callers are not responsible for initializing the fields. Store the name
inside the struct instead of maintaining a pointer to external storage, or
leaked memory (nfs case).
- struct timeval time is gone
time.tv_sec -> time_second
- struct timeval mono_time is gone
mono_time.tv_sec -> time_uptime
- access to time via
{get,}{micro,nano,bin}time()
get* versions are fast but less precise
- support NTP nanokernel implementation (NTP API 4)
- further reading:
Timecounter Paper: http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/timecounter.pdf
NTP Nanokernel: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/kern.html
- rather than embedding bufq_state in driver softc,
have a pointer to the former.
- move bufq related functions from kern/subr_disk.c to kern/subr_bufq.c.
- rename method to strategy for consistency.
- move some definitions which don't need to be exposed to the rest of kernel
from sys/bufq.h to sys/bufq_impl.h.
(is it better to move it to kern/ or somewhere?)
- fix some obvious breakage in dev/qbus/ts.c. (not tested)
Gone are the old kern_sysctl(), cpu_sysctl(), hw_sysctl(),
vfs_sysctl(), etc, routines, along with sysctl_int() et al. Now all
nodes are registered with the tree, and nodes can be added (or
removed) easily, and I/O to and from the tree is handled generically.
Since the nodes are registered with the tree, the mapping from name to
number (and back again) can now be discovered, instead of having to be
hard coded. Adding new nodes to the tree is likewise much simpler --
the new infrastructure handles almost all the work for simple types,
and just about anything else can be done with a small helper function.
All existing nodes are where they were before (numerically speaking),
so all existing consumers of sysctl information should notice no
difference.
PS - I'm sorry, but there's a distinct lack of documentation at the
moment. I'm working on sysctl(3/8/9) right now, and I promise to
watch out for buses.
dsl