unsigned for now. This prevents rf_reasonable_label() from rejecting
a valid label when these fields have an integer overflow. The reality
is that these need to be 64-bit quantities, but that will come later.
rf_DecrAccessesCountState wasn't in the correct spot in
RF_AccessState_e. Following up on that has resulted in one other
correction. Changing orderings of these states is tricky, and
shouldn't be attempted without some thorough analysis. For the
changes committed, the following analysis is offerred:
1) RAIDframe uses a little state machine to take care of building,
executing, and processing the DAGs used to direct IO.
2) The rf_DecrAccessesCountState state is handled by the function
rf_State_DecrAccessCount(). The purpose of this state is to
decrement the number of "accesses-in-flight".
3) rf_Cleanup_State is handled by rf_State_Cleanup(). Its job is to
do general cleanup of DAG arrays and any stripe locks.
4) DefaultStates[] in rf_layout.c indicates that the right spot
for rf_DecrAccessesCountState is just before rf_Cleanup_State.
Analysis of code for both states indicates that the order doesn't
matter too much, although rf_State_DecrAccessCount() should probably
take place *after* rf_State_Cleanup() to be more correct.
5) Comments in rf_State_ProcessDAG() indicates that the next state
should be rf_Cleanup_State. However: it attempts to get there by using
desc->state++;
which actually takes it to just rf_DecrAccessesCountState! This turned
out to be OK before, since rf_Cleanup_State would follow right after,
and all would be taken careof (albeit in arguably the "less correct"
order).
6) With the current ordering, if we head directly to rf_Cleanup_State
(as we do, for example, if multiple components fail in a RAID 5 set),
then we'll actually miss going trough rf_DecrAccessesCountState), and
could end up never being able to reach quiescence! Perhaps not too
big of a deal, given that the RAID set is pretty much toast by that
point at which such a drastic state change happens, but might as well
have this correct.
The changes made are:
1) Since having rf_State_DecrAccessCount() come after
rf_State_Cleanup() is just fine, change rf_layout.c to reflect that
rf_DecrAccessesCountState comes after rf_Cleanup_State (i.e. they swap
positions in the state list). This means that going to
rf_Cleanup_State after bailing on a failed DAG access will do all the
right things -- the state will get cleaned up, and then the access
counts will get decremented properly. The comment in
rf_State_ProcessDAG() is now actually correct -- the next state *will*
be rf_Cleanup_State.
2) Move rf_DecrAccessesCountState in RF_AccessState_e to just after
rf_CleanupState. This puts RF_AccessState_e in sync with
DefaultStates[]. Fortunately, these states are rarely referred to by
name, and so this change ends up being mostly cosmetic -- it really
only fixes cleanup behaviour for the recent "Failed to create a DAG"
changes.
of strenuous agreement, and some general agreement, this commit is
going ahead because it's now starting to block some other changes I
wish to make.]
Remove most of the support for the concept of "rows" from RAIDframe.
While the "row" interface has been exported to the world, RAIDframe
internals have really only supported a single row, even though they
have feigned support of multiple rows.
Nothing changes in configuration land -- config files still need to
specify a single row, etc. All auto-config structures remain fully
forward/backwards compatible.
The only visible difference to the average user should be a
reduction in the size of a GENERIC kernel (i386) by 4.5K. For those
of us trolling through RAIDframe kernel code, a lot of the driver
configuration code has become a LOT easier to read.
malloc types into a structure, a pointer to which is passed around,
instead of an int constant. Allow the limit to be adjusted when the
malloc type is defined, or with a function call, as suggested by
Jonathan Stone.
raidframevar.h - contains bits of rf_types.h, rf_layout.h,
rf_netbsd.h, rf_raid.h, and rf_decluster.h.
raidframeio.h - contains the bits needed for doing IOCTL's w/
RAIDframe.
These bits will be visible to userland.
martin