Keeping consumers open when device is closed is very hard. We need to
open consumers sometimes to update metadata, etc.
Many hacks was introduced in the past to made it possible. You cannot
be sure that you can open consumer for writing always, even if you think
it should be allowed. If one of the mirror components is for example da0
and you try to open it, you can get EPERM when da0s1 is opened for reading
(because BSD class opens consumers (da0) with an extra 'e' bit set).
Waiting for the events queue to be empty may do the trick, but it makes
code much uglier (as you cannot always call g_waitidle()), it doesn't
solve all edge cases and it can introduce deadlocks if there are events
in the queue that wait for gmirror.
I removed those hacks. Now all consumers are open r1w1e1 always, even if
device is closed. Maybe it is less clean from GEOM perspective, but simpify
code a lot and make it much more reliable.
The only issue was retaste event which is sent when we close consumers
opened for writing. I ignore retaste event by not detaching consumer
immediately (so retaste event is not send to my class) and sending event
right after it to detach and destroy consumer.
anywhere in the DAG. This includes configurations that are not
allowed by the EFI specification.
o Reject a GPT partition table if it's not preceeded by a PMBR.
There's no need to preserve the MBR partitioning anymore as GPT
is mature and with the first bullet extending the applicability
of GPT, it's better to be a bit more strict.
because we know it then and we need it when inserting a component which
wasn't destroyed while device was running.
Reported by: Michael Handler <handler@grendel.net>
MFC after: 1 week
observations lead me to believe that the convetion for pc98 boot
loaders is to have a jump unstruction, followed by a string, followed
by code. The jump usually doesn't have a nop after it and usually the
string is NUL terminated, but Grub/98 breaks both of these rules.
# I looked for, but failed to find the Minux boot blocks for PC-9801 port.
512. If I had an audio cdrom in my cd player when I booted my system,
I'd get a panic from geom because you can't read 8192 bytes from an
audio cdrom.
Remove XXX comment about IPL1 and replace it with some information
from my soon to be published web page on the pc98 disk layout. The
IPL1 test was the result of an observation of a disk with FreeBSD's
boot0 program. It was testing part of an area what appears to be
reserved for a boot loader name, which comes after a jump over this
area. I don't yet know if it is required to be any specific jump
instruction, or if the destination has to be location 11. [1]
[1] FreeBSD Press No. 13, page 115, poorly translated by myself. The
picture there shows offset 8 as the destination of the jump, but
FreeBSD's boot0 program has three padding NULs after the IPL1 name and
uses a 16-bit 'jmp' instruction.
correct open/close behaviour of filesystems:
When an ioctl to modify the MBR arrives, we cannot take for granted that
we have the consumer open.
The symptom is that one cannot run 'boot0cfg -s2 /dev/ad0' in single-user
mode because / is the only open partition in only open r1w0e1.
If it is not, we attempt to increase the write count by one and
decrease it again afterwards.
Presumably most if not all other slices suffer from the same problem.
that the events queue is empty. In other case we're able to hit the race
where for example da0s1 is tasted by some other class, which means that
da0 is open with exclusive bit set, which means that we can't open da0
for writing if it is our component.
Reported by: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> (and somebody else sometime ago,
but I cannot find who it was)
seconds of idling, DRITY flags are removed.
- If mirror is in idle state or is not open for writing, sleep without
timeout when waiting for I/O requests.
- Don't use atomic operations, for now sysctls are protected by Giant.
- Update debugs.
- Fix for good (I hope) force-stopping mirrors and some filure cases
(e.g. the last good component dies when synchronization is in progress).
Don't use ->nstart/->nend consumer's fields, as this could be racy,
because those fields are used in g_down/g_up, use ->index consumer's
field instead for tracking number of not finished requests.
Reported by: marcel
- After 5 seconds of idle time (this should be configurable) mark all
dirty providers as clean, so when mirror is not used in 5 seconds
and there will be power failure, no synchronization on boot is needed.
Idea from: sorry, I can't find who suggested this
- When there are no ACTIVE components and no NEW components destroy whole
mirror, not only provider.
- Fix one debug to show information about I/O request, before we change
its command.
buf->b-dev.
Put a bio between the buf passed to dev_strategy() and the device driver
strategy routine in order to not clobber fields in the buf.
Assert copyright on vfs_bio.c and update copyright message to canonical
text. There is no legal difference between John Dysons two-clause
abbreviated BSD license and the canonical text.
This flag gets set whenever the thread posts an event on the GEOM
event queue, and if the flag is set when the thread is prepared
to return to userland from the kernel, g_waitidle() will be called
to make sure that the posted events have completed.
This can replace an insufficient number of g_waitidle() calls in
various other places, and has the advantage of being failsafe: Any
system call which does a VOP_OPEN()/VOP_CLOSE will now correctly
wait for any geom events it posted as part of spoils or tastes.
Assert that topology and Giant is not held in g_waitidle().
in the g_up and g_down threads. Each time a bio is propelled up and
down the stack, an event is generating showing the provider, offset,
and length, as well as thread wakeup and work status information.
providers for tasting. Before this hack, race below is possible:
SI_SUB_RAID (no not-fully-configured geoms, so don't block)
GEOM tasting (now geoms are created)
SI_SUB_MOUNT_ROOT (if root file system is placed on a mirror, it is
possible that this mirror is not fully configured yet)
There is a lot of work to do to avoid such hacks and I need a working
solution before 5.3, sorry.
Reported by: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
