to kproc_xxx as they actually make whole processes.
Thos makes way for us to add REAL kthread_create() and friends
that actually make theads. it turns out that most of these
calls actually end up being moved back to the thread version
when it's added. but we need to make this cosmetic change first.
I'd LOVE to do this rename in 7.0 so that we can eventually MFC the
new kthread_xxx() calls.
o The only indication of error condition is NULL value returned by
the function;
o value pointed to by error argument is undefined in the case when
operation completes successfully.
Discussed with: phk
the geom creation to a seperate init function and ignore the tasting.
The config is now parsed only in the vinumdrive geom, which hopefully
fixes the problem, that the drive class tasted before the vinum class
had a chance, for good.
Also restore the behaviour that the module can be loaded at boot time
and on a running system.
Don't allocate potentially large variables on the stack.
Check strsep() return values when the string comes from userland.
Shorten variable names for lucidity's sake.
most of the stuff:
Pointed out by: njl@
Add functions to rename objects and to move a subdisk from one drive
to another.
Obtained from: Chris Jones <chris.jones@ualberta.ca>
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2005
MFC in: 1 week
This way, the VINUMDRIVE class is loaded before the VINUM class,
but since geom does the tasting for newly arrived classes
last-in-first-out, the VINUM class tastes first.
This removes the need to call gv_parse_config() in the drive
taste path.
When a drive is newly created, it's state is initially set to 'down',
so it won't allow saving the config to it (thus it will never know of
itself being created). Work around this by adding a new flag, that's
also checked when saving the config to a drive.
post an event to the geom event queue that will take care of it,
letting outstanding bios finish, and closing the consumers.
Plus some cosmetic clean ups.
seem to be necessary anymore, and it prevents tasting a valid drive
when booting with geom_vinum already loaded, since SCSI disks set their
sectorsize not until first opening them.
the previous one failed and there are more than one plex in the volume.
This could have led to a flood of error messages on the console and
probably a deadlock in certain situations.
Analogous to the drive level, give each volume and plex a worker thread
that picks up and processes incoming and completed BIOs.
This should fix the data corruption issues that have come up a few
weeks ago and improve performance, especially of RAID5 plexes.
The volume level needs a little work, though.
