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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 300207 19-May-2016 ken

Add support for managing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives.

This change includes support for SCSI SMR drives (which conform to the
Zoned Block Commands or ZBC spec) and ATA SMR drives (which conform to
the Zoned ATA Command Set or ZAC spec) behind SAS expanders.

This includes full management support through the GEOM BIO interface, and
through a new userland utility, zonectl(8), and through camcontrol(8).

This is now ready for filesystems to use to detect and manage zoned drives.
(There is no work in progress that I know of to use this for ZFS or UFS, if
anyone is interested, let me know and I may have some suggestions.)

Also, improve ATA command passthrough and dispatch support, both via ATA
and ATA passthrough over SCSI.

Also, add support to camcontrol(8) for the ATA Extended Power Conditions
feature set. You can now manage ATA device power states, and set various
idle time thresholds for a drive to enter lower power states.

Note that this change cannot be MFCed in full, because it depends on
changes to the struct bio API that break compatilibity. In order to
avoid breaking the stable API, only changes that don't touch or depend on
the struct bio changes can be merged. For example, the camcontrol(8)
changes don't depend on the new bio API, but zonectl(8) and the probe
changes to the da(4) and ada(4) drivers do depend on it.

Also note that the SMR changes have not yet been tested with an actual
SCSI ZBC device, or a SCSI to ATA translation layer (SAT) that supports
ZBC to ZAC translation. I have not yet gotten a suitable drive or SAT
layer, so any testing help would be appreciated. These changes have been
tested with Seagate Host Aware SATA drives attached to both SAS and SATA
controllers. Also, I do not have any SATA Host Managed devices, and I
suspect that it may take additional (hopefully minor) changes to support
them.

Thanks to Seagate for supplying the test hardware and answering questions.

sbin/camcontrol/Makefile:
Add epc.c and zone.c.

sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.8:
Document the zone and epc subcommands.

sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c:
Add the zone and epc subcommands.

Add auxiliary register support to build_ata_cmd(). Make sure to
set the CAM_ATAIO_NEEDRESULT, CAM_ATAIO_DMA, and CAM_ATAIO_FPDMA
flags as appropriate for ATA commands.

Add a new get_ata_status() function to parse ATA result from SCSI
sense descriptors (for ATA passthrough over SCSI) and ATA I/O
requests.

sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.h:
Update the build_ata_cmd() prototype

Add get_ata_status(), zone(), and epc().

sbin/camcontrol/epc.c:
Support for ATA Extended Power Conditions features. This includes
support for all features documented in the ACS-4 Revision 12
specification from t13.org (dated February 18, 2016).

The EPC feature set allows putting a drive into a power power mode
immediately, or setting timeouts so that the drive will
automatically enter progressively lower power states after various
idle times.

sbin/camcontrol/fwdownload.c:
Update the firmware download code for the new build_ata_cmd()
arguments.

sbin/camcontrol/zone.c:
Implement support for Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives
via SCSI Zoned Block Commands (ZBC) and ATA Zoned Device ATA
Command Set (ZAC).

These specs were developed in concert, and are functionally
identical. The primary differences are due to SCSI and ATA
differences. (SCSI is big endian, ATA is little endian, for
example.)

This includes support for all commands defined in the ZBC and
ZAC specs.

sys/cam/ata/ata_all.c:
Decode a number of additional ATA command names in ata_op_string().

Add a new CCB building function, ata_read_log().

Add ata_zac_mgmt_in() and ata_zac_mgmt_out() CCB building
functions. These support both DMA and NCQ encapsulation.

sys/cam/ata/ata_all.h:
Add prototypes for ata_read_log(), ata_zac_mgmt_out(), and
ata_zac_mgmt_in().

sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
Revamp the ada(4) driver to support zoned devices.

Add four new probe states to gather information needed for zone
support.

Add a new adasetflags() function to avoid duplication of large
blocks of flag setting between the async handler and register
functions.

Add new sysctl variables that describe zone support and paramters.

Add support for the new BIO_ZONE bio, and all of its subcommands:
DISK_ZONE_OPEN, DISK_ZONE_CLOSE, DISK_ZONE_FINISH, DISK_ZONE_RWP,
DISK_ZONE_REPORT_ZONES, and DISK_ZONE_GET_PARAMS.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c:
Add command descriptions for the ZBC IN/OUT commands.

Add descriptions for ZBC Host Managed devices.

Add a new function, scsi_ata_pass() to do ATA passthrough over
SCSI. This will eventually replace scsi_ata_pass_16() -- it
can create the 12, 16, and 32-byte variants of the ATA
PASS-THROUGH command, and supports setting all of the
registers defined as of SAT-4, Revision 5 (March 11, 2016).

Change scsi_ata_identify() to use scsi_ata_pass() instead of
scsi_ata_pass_16().

Add a new scsi_ata_read_log() function to facilitate reading
ATA logs via SCSI.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
Add the new ATA PASS-THROUGH(32) command CDB. Add extended and
variable CDB opcodes.

Add Zoned Block Device Characteristics VPD page.

Add ATA Return SCSI sense descriptor.

Add prototypes for scsi_ata_read_log() and scsi_ata_pass().

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
Revamp the da(4) driver to support zoned devices.

Add five new probe states, four of which are needed for ATA
devices.

Add five new sysctl variables that describe zone support and
parameters.

The da(4) driver supports SCSI ZBC devices, as well as ATA ZAC
devices when they are attached via a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT)
layer. Since ZBC -> ZAC translation is a new feature in the T10
SAT-4 spec, most SATA drives will be supported via ATA commands
sent via the SCSI ATA PASS-THROUGH command. The da(4) driver will
prefer the ZBC interface, if it is available, for performance
reasons, but will use the ATA PASS-THROUGH interface to the ZAC
command set if the SAT layer doesn't support translation yet.
As I mentioned above, ZBC command support is untested.

Add support for the new BIO_ZONE bio, and all of its subcommands:
DISK_ZONE_OPEN, DISK_ZONE_CLOSE, DISK_ZONE_FINISH, DISK_ZONE_RWP,
DISK_ZONE_REPORT_ZONES, and DISK_ZONE_GET_PARAMS.

Add scsi_zbc_in() and scsi_zbc_out() CCB building functions.

Add scsi_ata_zac_mgmt_out() and scsi_ata_zac_mgmt_in() CCB/CDB
building functions. Note that these have return values, unlike
almost all other CCB building functions in CAM. The reason is
that they can fail, depending upon the particular combination
of input parameters. The primary failure case is if the user
wants NCQ, but fails to specify additional CDB storage. NCQ
requires using the 32-byte version of the SCSI ATA PASS-THROUGH
command, and the current CAM CDB size is 16 bytes.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.h:
Add ZBC IN and ZBC OUT CDBs and opcodes.

Add SCSI Report Zones data structures.

Add scsi_zbc_in(), scsi_zbc_out(), scsi_ata_zac_mgmt_out(), and
scsi_ata_zac_mgmt_in() prototypes.

sys/dev/ahci/ahci.c:
Fix SEND / RECEIVE FPDMA QUEUED in the ahci(4) driver.

ahci_setup_fis() previously set the top bits of the sector count
register in the FIS to 0 for FPDMA commands. This is okay for
read and write, because the PRIO field is in the only thing in
those bits, and we don't implement that further up the stack.

But, for SEND and RECEIVE FPDMA QUEUED, the subcommand is in that
byte, so it needs to be transmitted to the drive.

In ahci_setup_fis(), always set the the top 8 bits of the
sector count register. We need it in both the standard
and NCQ / FPDMA cases.

sys/geom/eli/g_eli.c:
Pass BIO_ZONE commands through the GELI class.

sys/geom/geom.h:
Add g_io_zonecmd() prototype.

sys/geom/geom_dev.c:
Add new DIOCZONECMD ioctl, which allows sending zone commands to
disks.

sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
Add support for BIO_ZONE commands.

sys/geom/geom_disk.h:
Add a new flag, DISKFLAG_CANZONE, that indicates that a given
GEOM disk client can handle BIO_ZONE commands.

sys/geom/geom_io.c:
Add a new function, g_io_zonecmd(), that handles execution of
BIO_ZONE commands.

Add permissions check for BIO_ZONE commands.

Add command decoding for BIO_ZONE commands.

sys/geom/geom_subr.c:
Add DDB command decoding for BIO_ZONE commands.

sys/kern/subr_devstat.c:
Record statistics for REPORT ZONES commands. Note that the
number of bytes transferred for REPORT ZONES won't quite match
what is received from the harware. This is because we're
necessarily counting bytes coming from the da(4) / ada(4) drivers,
which are using the disk_zone.h interface to communicate up
the stack. The structure sizes it uses are slightly different
than the SCSI and ATA structure sizes.

sys/sys/ata.h:
Add many bit and structure definitions for ZAC, NCQ, and EPC
command support.

sys/sys/bio.h:
Convert the bio_cmd field to a straight enumeration. This will
yield more space for additional commands in the future. After
change r297955 and other related changes, this is now possible.
Converting to an enumeration will also prevent use as a bitmask
in the future.

sys/sys/disk.h:
Define the DIOCZONECMD ioctl.

sys/sys/disk_zone.h:
Add a new API for managing zoned disks. This is very close to
the SCSI ZBC and ATA ZAC standards, but uses integers in native
byte order instead of big endian (SCSI) or little endian (ATA)
byte arrays.

This is intended to offer to the complete feature set of the ZBC
and ZAC disk management without requiring the application developer
to include SCSI or ATA headers. We also use one set of headers
for ioctl consumers and kernel bio-level consumers.

sys/sys/param.h:
Bump __FreeBSD_version for sys/bio.h command changes, and inclusion
of SMR support.

usr.sbin/Makefile:
Add the zonectl utility.

usr.sbin/diskinfo/diskinfo.c
Add disk zoning capability to the 'diskinfo -v' output.

usr.sbin/zonectl/Makefile:
Add zonectl makefile.

usr.sbin/zonectl/zonectl.8
zonectl(8) man page.

usr.sbin/zonectl/zonectl.c
The zonectl(8) utility. This allows managing SCSI or ATA zoned
disks via the disk_zone.h API. You can report zones, reset write
pointers, get parameters, etc.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6147
Reviewed by: wblock (documentation)


# 297955 14-Apr-2016 imp

Bump bio_cmd and bio_*flags from 8 bits to 16.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5784


# 296605 10-Mar-2016 imp

Don't assume that bio_cmd is bit mask.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5593


# 295712 17-Feb-2016 imp

Use the right size for zeroing.

Submitted by: rpokala@


# 295707 17-Feb-2016 imp

Create an API to reset a struct bio (g_reset_bio). This is mandatory
for all struct bio you get back from g_{new,alloc}_bio. Temporary
bios that you create on the stack or elsewhere should use this before
first use of the bio, and between uses of the bio. At the moment, it
is nothing more than a wrapper around bzero, but that may change in
the future. The wrapper also removes one place where we encode the
size of struct bio in the KBI.


# 291716 03-Dec-2015 ken

Add asynchronous command support to the pass(4) driver, and the new
camdd(8) utility.

CCBs may be queued to the driver via the new CAMIOQUEUE ioctl, and
completed CCBs may be retrieved via the CAMIOGET ioctl. User
processes can use poll(2) or kevent(2) to get notification when
I/O has completed.

While the existing CAMIOCOMMAND blocking ioctl interface only
supports user virtual data pointers in a CCB (generally only
one per CCB), the new CAMIOQUEUE ioctl supports user virtual and
physical address pointers, as well as user virtual and physical
scatter/gather lists. This allows user applications to have more
flexibility in their data handling operations.

Kernel memory for data transferred via the queued interface is
allocated from the zone allocator in MAXPHYS sized chunks, and user
data is copied in and out. This is likely faster than the
vmapbuf()/vunmapbuf() method used by the CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl in
configurations with many processors (there are more TLB shootdowns
caused by the mapping/unmapping operation) but may not be as fast
as running with unmapped I/O.

The new memory handling model for user requests also allows
applications to send CCBs with request sizes that are larger than
MAXPHYS. The pass(4) driver now limits queued requests to the I/O
size listed by the SIM driver in the maxio field in the Path
Inquiry (XPT_PATH_INQ) CCB.

There are some things things would be good to add:

1. Come up with a way to do unmapped I/O on multiple buffers.
Currently the unmapped I/O interface operates on a struct bio,
which includes only one address and length. It would be nice
to be able to send an unmapped scatter/gather list down to
busdma. This would allow eliminating the copy we currently do
for data.

2. Add an ioctl to list currently outstanding CCBs in the various
queues.

3. Add an ioctl to cancel a request, or use the XPT_ABORT CCB to do
that.

4. Test physical address support. Virtual pointers and scatter
gather lists have been tested, but I have not yet tested
physical addresses or scatter/gather lists.

5. Investigate multiple queue support. At the moment there is one
queue of commands per pass(4) device. If multiple processes
open the device, they will submit I/O into the same queue and
get events for the same completions. This is probably the right
model for most applications, but it is something that could be
changed later on.

Also, add a new utility, camdd(8) that uses the asynchronous pass(4)
driver interface.

This utility is intended to be a basic data transfer/copy utility,
a simple benchmark utility, and an example of how to use the
asynchronous pass(4) interface.

It can copy data to and from pass(4) devices using any target queue
depth, starting offset and blocksize for the input and ouptut devices.
It currently only supports SCSI devices, but could be easily extended
to support ATA devices.

It can also copy data to and from regular files, block devices, tape
devices, pipes, stdin, and stdout. It does not support queueing
multiple commands to any of those targets, since it uses the standard
read(2)/write(2)/writev(2)/readv(2) system calls.

The I/O is done by two threads, one for the reader and one for the
writer. The reader thread sends completed read requests to the
writer thread in strictly sequential order, even if they complete
out of order. That could be modified later on for random I/O patterns
or slightly out of order I/O.

camdd(8) uses kqueue(2)/kevent(2) to get I/O completion events from
the pass(4) driver and also to send request notifications internally.

For pass(4) devcies, camdd(8) uses a single buffer (CAM_DATA_VADDR)
per CAM CCB on the reading side, and a scatter/gather list
(CAM_DATA_SG) on the writing side. In addition to testing both
interfaces, this makes any potential reblocking of I/O easier. No
data is copied between the reader and the writer, but rather the
reader's buffers are split into multiple I/O requests or combined
into a single I/O request depending on the input and output blocksize.

For the file I/O path, camdd(8) also uses a single buffer (read(2),
write(2), pread(2) or pwrite(2)) on reads, and a scatter/gather list
(readv(2), writev(2), preadv(2), pwritev(2)) on writes.

Things that would be nice to do for camdd(8) eventually:

1. Add support for I/O pattern generation. Patterns like all
zeros, all ones, LBA-based patterns, random patterns, etc. Right
Now you can always use /dev/zero, /dev/random, etc.

2. Add support for a "sink" mode, so we do only reads with no
writes. Right now, you can use /dev/null.

3. Add support for automatic queue depth probing, so that we can
figure out the right queue depth on the input and output side
for maximum throughput. At the moment it defaults to 6.

4. Add support for SATA device passthrough I/O.

5. Add support for random LBAs and/or lengths on the input and
output sides.

6. Track average per-I/O latency and busy time. The busy time
and latency could also feed in to the automatic queue depth
determination.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.h:
Define two new ioctls, CAMIOQUEUE and CAMIOGET, that queue
and fetch asynchronous CAM CCBs respectively.

Although these ioctls do not have a declared argument, they
both take a union ccb pointer. If we declare a size here,
the ioctl code in sys/kern/sys_generic.c will malloc and free
a buffer for either the CCB or the CCB pointer (depending on
how it is declared). Since we have to keep a copy of the
CCB (which is fairly large) anyway, having the ioctl malloc
and free a CCB for each call is wasteful.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.c:
Add asynchronous CCB support.

Add two new ioctls, CAMIOQUEUE and CAMIOGET.

CAMIOQUEUE adds a CCB to the incoming queue. The CCB is
executed immediately (and moved to the active queue) if it
is an immediate CCB, but otherwise it will be executed
in passstart() when a CCB is available from the transport layer.

When CCBs are completed (because they are immediate or
passdone() if they are queued), they are put on the done
queue.

If we get the final close on the device before all pending
I/O is complete, all active I/O is moved to the abandoned
queue and we increment the peripheral reference count so
that the peripheral driver instance doesn't go away before
all pending I/O is done.

The new passcreatezone() function is called on the first
call to the CAMIOQUEUE ioctl on a given device to allocate
the UMA zones for I/O requests and S/G list buffers. This
may be good to move off to a taskqueue at some point.
The new passmemsetup() function allocates memory and
scatter/gather lists to hold the user's data, and copies
in any data that needs to be written. For virtual pointers
(CAM_DATA_VADDR), the kernel buffer is malloced from the
new pass(4) driver malloc bucket. For virtual
scatter/gather lists (CAM_DATA_SG), buffers are allocated
from a new per-pass(9) UMA zone in MAXPHYS-sized chunks.
Physical pointers are passed in unchanged. We have support
for up to 16 scatter/gather segments (for the user and
kernel S/G lists) in the default struct pass_io_req, so
requests with longer S/G lists require an extra kernel malloc.

The new passcopysglist() function copies a user scatter/gather
list to a kernel scatter/gather list. The number of elements
in each list may be different, but (obviously) the amount of data
stored has to be identical.

The new passmemdone() function copies data out for the
CAM_DATA_VADDR and CAM_DATA_SG cases.

The new passiocleanup() function restores data pointers in
user CCBs and frees memory.

Add new functions to support kqueue(2)/kevent(2):

passreadfilt() tells kevent whether or not the done
queue is empty.

passkqfilter() adds a knote to our list.

passreadfiltdetach() removes a knote from our list.

Add a new function, passpoll(), for poll(2)/select(2)
to use.

Add devstat(9) support for the queued CCB path.

sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
Add support for the BIO_VLIST bio type.

sys/cam/cam_ccb.h:
Add a new enumeration for the xflags field in the CCB header.
(This doesn't change the CCB header, just adds an enumeration to
use.)

sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
Add a new function, xpt_setup_ccb_flags(), that allows specifying
CCB flags.

sys/cam/cam_xpt.h:
Add a prototype for xpt_setup_ccb_flags().

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
Add support for BIO_VLIST.

sys/dev/md/md.c:
Add BIO_VLIST support to md(4).

sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
Add BIO_VLIST support to the GEOM disk class. Re-factor the I/O size
limiting code in g_disk_start() a bit.

sys/kern/subr_bus_dma.c:
Change _bus_dmamap_load_vlist() to take a starting offset and
length.

Add a new function, _bus_dmamap_load_pages(), that will load a list
of physical pages starting at an offset.

Update _bus_dmamap_load_bio() to allow loading BIO_VLIST bios.
Allow unmapped I/O to start at an offset.

sys/kern/subr_uio.c:
Add two new functions, physcopyin_vlist() and physcopyout_vlist().

sys/pc98/include/bus.h:
Guard kernel-only parts of the pc98 machine/bus.h header with
#ifdef _KERNEL.

This allows userland programs to include <machine/bus.h> to get the
definition of bus_addr_t and bus_size_t.

sys/sys/bio.h:
Add a new bio flag, BIO_VLIST.

sys/sys/uio.h:
Add prototypes for physcopyin_vlist() and physcopyout_vlist().

share/man/man4/pass.4:
Document the CAMIOQUEUE and CAMIOGET ioctls.

usr.sbin/Makefile:
Add camdd.

usr.sbin/camdd/Makefile:
Add a makefile for camdd(8).

usr.sbin/camdd/camdd.8:
Man page for camdd(8).

usr.sbin/camdd/camdd.c:
The new camdd(8) utility.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 1 week


# 287405 02-Sep-2015 imp

After the introduction of direct dispatch, the pacing code in g_down()
broke in two ways. One, the pacing variable was accessed in multiple
threads in an unsafe way. Two, since large numbers of I/O could come
down from the buf layer at one time, large numbers of allocation
failures could happen all at once, resulting in a huge pace value that
would limit I/Os to 10 IOPS for minutes (or even hours) at a
time. While a real solution to these problems requires substantial
work (to go to a no-allocation after the first model, or to have some
way to wait for more memory with some kind of reserve for pager and
swapper requests), it is relatively easy to make this simplistic
pacing less pathological.

Move to using a volatile variable with loads and stores. While this is
a little racy, losing the race is safe: either you get memory and
proceed, or you don't and queue. Second, sleep for 1ms (or one tick, whichever
is larger) instead of 100ms. This removes the artificial 10 IOPS limit
while still easing up on new I/Os during memory shortages. Remove
tying the amount of time we do this to the number of failed requests
and do it only as long as we keep failing requests.

Finally, to avoid needless recursion when memory is tight (start ->
g_io_deliver() -> g_io_request() -> start -> ... until we use 1/2 the
stack), don't do direct dispatch while pacing. This should be a rare
event (not steady state) so the performance hit here is worth the
extra safety of not starving g_down() with directly dispatched I/O.

Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3546


# 286405 07-Aug-2015 kib

Minor style cleanup of the code surrounding r286404.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# 286404 07-Aug-2015 kib

The condition to use direct processing for the unmapped bio is
reverted. We can do direct processing when g_io_check() does not need
to perform transient remapping of the bio, otherwise the thread has to
sleep.

Reviewed by: mav (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# 256880 22-Oct-2013 mav

Merge GEOM direct dispatch changes from the projects/camlock branch.

When safety requirements are met, it allows to avoid passing I/O requests
to GEOM g_up/g_down thread, executing them directly in the caller context.
That allows to avoid CPU bottlenecks in g_up/g_down threads, plus avoid
several context switches per I/O.

The defined now safety requirements are:
- caller should not hold any locks and should be reenterable;
- callee should not depend on GEOM dual-threaded concurency semantics;
- on the way down, if request is unmapped while callee doesn't support it,
the context should be sleepable;
- kernel thread stack usage should be below 50%.

To keep compatibility with GEOM classes not meeting above requirements
new provider and consumer flags added:
- G_CF_DIRECT_SEND -- consumer code meets caller requirements (request);
- G_CF_DIRECT_RECEIVE -- consumer code meets callee requirements (done);
- G_PF_DIRECT_SEND -- provider code meets caller requirements (done);
- G_PF_DIRECT_RECEIVE -- provider code meets callee requirements (request).
Capable GEOM class can set them, allowing direct dispatch in cases where
it is safe. If any of requirements are not met, request is queued to
g_up or g_down thread same as before.

Such GEOM classes were reviewed and updated to support direct dispatch:
CONCAT, DEV, DISK, GATE, MD, MIRROR, MULTIPATH, NOP, PART, RAID, STRIPE,
VFS, ZERO, ZFS::VDEV, ZFS::ZVOL, all classes based on g_slice KPI (LABEL,
MAP, FLASHMAP, etc).

To declare direct completion capability disk(9) KPI got new flag equivalent
to G_PF_DIRECT_SEND -- DISKFLAG_DIRECT_COMPLETION. da(4) and ada(4) disk
drivers got it set now thanks to earlier CAM locking work.

This change more then twice increases peak block storage performance on
systems with manu CPUs, together with earlier CAM locking changes reaching
more then 1 million IOPS (512 byte raw reads from 16 SATA SSDs on 4 HBAs to
256 user-level threads).

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 months


# 256603 16-Oct-2013 mav

MFprojects/camlock r254905:
Introduce new function devstat_end_transaction_bio_bt(), adding new argument
to specify present time. Use this function to move binuptime() out of lock,
substantially reducing lock congestion when slow timecounter is used.


# 252330 28-Jun-2013 jeff

- Add a general purpose resource allocator, vmem, from NetBSD. It was
originally inspired by the Solaris vmem detailed in the proceedings
of usenix 2001. The NetBSD version was heavily refactored for bugs
and simplicity.
- Use this resource allocator to allocate the buffer and transient maps.
Buffer cache defrags are reduced by 25% when used by filesystems with
mixed block sizes. Ultimately this may permit dynamic buffer cache
sizing on low KVA machines.

Discussed with: alc, kib, attilio
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division


# 248596 21-Mar-2013 kib

Correct the page count when excess length is trimmed from the bio.

Reported and tested by: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net


# 248568 21-Mar-2013 kib

Assert that transient mapping of the bio is only done when unmapped
buffers are allowed.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 248508 19-Mar-2013 kib

Implement the concept of the unmapped VMIO buffers, i.e. buffers which
do not map the b_pages pages into buffer_map KVA. The use of the
unmapped buffers eliminate the need to perform TLB shootdown for
mapping on the buffer creation and reuse, greatly reducing the amount
of IPIs for shootdown on big-SMP machines and eliminating up to 25-30%
of the system time on i/o intensive workloads.

The unmapped buffer should be explicitely requested by the GB_UNMAPPED
flag by the consumer. For unmapped buffer, no KVA reservation is
performed at all. The consumer might request unmapped buffer which
does have a KVA reserve, to manually map it without recursing into
buffer cache and blocking, with the GB_KVAALLOC flag.

When the mapped buffer is requested and unmapped buffer already
exists, the cache performs an upgrade, possibly reusing the KVA
reservation.

Unmapped buffer is translated into unmapped bio in g_vfs_strategy().
Unmapped bio carry a pointer to the vm_page_t array, offset and length
instead of the data pointer. The provider which processes the bio
should explicitely specify a readiness to accept unmapped bio,
otherwise g_down geom thread performs the transient upgrade of the bio
request by mapping the pages into the new bio_transient_map KVA
submap.

The bio_transient_map submap claims up to 10% of the buffer map, and
the total buffer_map + bio_transient_map KVA usage stays the
same. Still, it could be manually tuned by kern.bio_transient_maxcnt
tunable, in the units of the transient mappings. Eventually, the
bio_transient_map could be removed after all geom classes and drivers
can accept unmapped i/o requests.

Unmapped support can be turned off by the vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed
tunable, disabling which makes the buffer (or cluster) creation
requests to ignore GB_UNMAPPED and GB_KVAALLOC flags. Unmapped
buffers are only enabled by default on the architectures where
pmap_copy_page() was implemented and tested.

In the rework, filesystem metadata is not the subject to maxbufspace
limit anymore. Since the metadata buffers are always mapped, the
buffers still have to fit into the buffer map, which provides a
reasonable (but practically unreachable) upper bound on it. The
non-metadata buffer allocations, both mapped and unmapped, is
accounted against maxbufspace, as before. Effectively, this means that
the maxbufspace is forced on mapped and unmapped buffers separately.
The pre-patch bufspace limiting code did not worked, because
buffer_map fragmentation does not allow the limit to be reached.

By Jeff Roberson request, the getnewbuf() function was split into
smaller single-purpose functions.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Discussed with: jeff (previous version)
Tested by: pho, scottl (previous version), jhb, bf
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 244716 26-Dec-2012 pjd

Reset provider-specific fields when resending I/O request in low memory
conditions. This fixes assertion which checks those fields when kernel is
compiled with DIAGNOSTIC.

Reported by: kib, pho
MFC after: 1 week


# 239132 07-Aug-2012 jimharris

Clone BIO_ORDERED flag, for disk drivers (namely CAM) that try to
consume it.

Sponsored by: Intel
Discussed with: gibbs, scottl


# 238886 29-Jul-2012 mav

Implement media change notification for DA and CD removable media devices.
It includes three parts:
1) Modifications to CAM to detect media media changes and report them to
disk(9) layer. For modern SATA (and potentially UAS) devices it utilizes
Asynchronous Notification mechanism to receive events from hardware.
Active polling with TEST UNIT READY commands with 3 seconds period is used
for incapable hardware. After that both CD and DA drivers work the same way,
detecting two conditions: "NOT READY: Medium not present" after medium was
detected previously, and "UNIT ATTENTION: Not ready to ready change, medium
may have changed". First one reported to disk(9) as media removal, second
as media insert/change. To reliably receive second event new
AC_UNIT_ATTENTION async added to make UAs broadcasted to all periphs by
generic error handling code in cam_periph_error().
2) Modifications to GEOM core to handle media remove and change events.
Media removal handled by spoiling all consumers attached to the provider.
Media change event also schedules provider retaste after spoiling to probe
new media. New flag G_CF_ORPHAN was added to consumers to reflect that
consumer is in process of destruction. It allows retaste to create new
geom instance of the same class, while previous one is still dying.
3) Modifications to some GEOM classes: DEV -- to report media change
events to devd; VFS -- to handle spoiling same as orphan to prevent
accessing replaced media. PART class already handles spoiling alike to
orphan.

Reviewed by: silence on geom@ and scsi@
Tested by: avg
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc. / PC-BSD
MFC after: 2 months


# 212160 02-Sep-2010 gibbs

Correct bioq_disksort so that bioq_insert_tail() offers barrier semantic.
Add the BIO_ORDERED flag for struct bio and update bio clients to use it.

The barrier semantics of bioq_insert_tail() were broken in two ways:

o In bioq_disksort(), an added bio could be inserted at the head of
the queue, even when a barrier was present, if the sort key for
the new entry was less than that of the last queued barrier bio.

o The last_offset used to generate the sort key for newly queued bios
did not stay at the position of the barrier until either the
barrier was de-queued, or a new barrier (which updates last_offset)
was queued. When a barrier is in effect, we know that the disk
will pass through the barrier position just before the
"blocked bios" are released, so using the barrier's offset for
last_offset is the optimal choice.

sys/geom/sched/subr_disk.c:
sys/kern/subr_disk.c:
o Update last_offset in bioq_insert_tail().

o Only update last_offset in bioq_remove() if the removed bio is
at the head of the queue (typically due to a call via
bioq_takefirst()) and no barrier is active.

o In bioq_disksort(), if we have a barrier (insert_point is non-NULL),
set prev to the barrier and cur to it's next element. Now that
last_offset is kept at the barrier position, this change isn't
strictly necessary, but since we have to take a decision branch
anyway, it does avoid one, no-op, loop iteration in the while
loop that immediately follows.

o In bioq_disksort(), bypass the normal sort for bios with the
BIO_ORDERED attribute and instead insert them into the queue
with bioq_insert_tail(). bioq_insert_tail() not only gives
the desired command order during insertion, but also provides
barrier semantics so that commands disksorted in the future
cannot pass the just enqueued transaction.

sys/sys/bio.h:
Add BIO_ORDERED as bit 4 of the bio_flags field in struct bio.

sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c
Use an ordered command for SCSI/ATA-NCQ commands issued in
response to bios with the BIO_ORDERED flag set.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c
Use an ordered tag when issuing a synchronize cache command.

Wrap some lines to 80 columns.

sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_geom.c
sys/geom/geom_io.c
Mark bios with the BIO_FLUSH command as BIO_ORDERED.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
MFC after: 1 month


# 208992 10-Jun-2010 trasz

Untangle g_print_bio(), silencing Coverity.

Found with: Coverity Prevent
CID: 3566, 3567


# 206650 15-Apr-2010 avg

g_io_check: respond to zero pp->mediasize with ENXIO

Previsouly this condition was reported with EIO by bio_offset > mediasize
check.
Perhaps that check should be extended to bio_offset+bio_length > mediasize.

MFC after: 1 week


# 205619 24-Mar-2010 mav

Do not fetch precise time of request start when stats collection disabled.

Reviewed by: pjd, phk


# 201264 30-Dec-2009 mav

Call wakeup() only for the first request on the queue.


# 196904 06-Sep-2009 mav

MFp4:
Remove msleep() timeout from g_io_schedule_up/down(). It works fine
without it, saving few percents of CPU on high request rates without
need to rearm callout twice per request.


# 195195 30-Jun-2009 trasz

Make gjournal work with kernel compiled with "options DIAGNOSTIC".
Previously, it would panic immediately.

Reviewed by: pjd
Approved by: re (kib)


# 193981 11-Jun-2009 luigi

As discussed in the devsummit, introduce two fields in the
struct bio to store classification information, and a hook
for classifier functions that can be called by g_io_request().

This code is from Fabio Checconi as part of his GSOC work.


# 183146 18-Sep-2008 sbruno

Just a fixup for a KTRACE message I stumbled upon many moons ago.

Reviewed by: Scott Long
MFC after: 2 days


# 174669 16-Dec-2007 phk

Don't limit BIO_DELETE requests to MAXPHYS, they perform no data
transfers, so they are not subject to the VM system limitation.


# 173001 26-Oct-2007 pjd

Save stack only when KTR_GEOM is both compiled into the kernel and enabled
in debug.ktr.mask. Because saving stack is very expensive, it's better only
to do it when one really wants to.

Reported by: Dan Nelson


# 169283 05-May-2007 pjd

Implement g_delete_data() similar to g_read_data() and g_write_data().

OK'ed by: phk


# 167086 27-Feb-2007 jhb

Use pause() rather than tsleep() on stack variables and function pointers.


# 166934 23-Feb-2007 jhb

Use tsleep() rather than msleep() with a NULL mtx parameter.


# 166325 28-Jan-2007 pjd

We expect 'bio_data != NULL' for BIO_{READ,WRITE,GETATTR}, but for
BIO_{DELETE,FLUSH} we expect 'bio_data == NULL'.

Reviewed by: phk


# 163832 31-Oct-2006 pjd

Add a new I/O request - BIO_FLUSH, which basically tells providers below to
flush their caches. For now will mostly be used by disks to flush their
write cache.

Sponsored by: home.pl


# 159304 05-Jun-2006 pjd

Add g_duplicate_bio() function which does the same thing what g_clone_bio()
is doing, but g_duplicate_bio() allocates new bio with M_WAITOK flag.


# 156686 13-Mar-2006 ru

Fix a typo.


# 156170 01-Mar-2006 pjd

Assert proper use of bio_caller1, bio_caller2, bio_cflags, bio_driver1,
bio_driver2 and bio_pflags fields.

Reviewed by: phk


# 150177 15-Sep-2005 jhb

- Add a new simple facility for marking the current thread as being in a
state where sleeping on a sleep queue is not allowed. The facility
doesn't support recursion but uses a simple private per-thread flag
(TDP_NOSLEEPING). The sleepq_add() function will panic if the flag is
set and INVARIANTS is enabled.
- Use this new facility to replace the g_xup and g_xdown mutexes that were
(ab)used to achieve similar behavior.
- Disallow sleeping in interrupt threads when invoking interrupt handlers.

MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: phk


# 149576 29-Aug-2005 pjd

Use KTR to log allocations and destructions of bios.
This should hopefully allow to track down "duplicate free of g_bio" panics.


# 148410 25-Jul-2005 phk

By design I left a tiny race in updating the I/O statistics based on
the assumption that performance was more important that beancounter
quality statistics.

As it transpires the microoptimization is not measurable in the
real world and the inconsistent statistics confuse users, so revert
the decision.

MT6 candidate: possibly
MT5 candidate: possibly


# 136755 21-Oct-2004 rwatson

Add KTR_GEOM, which allows tracing of basic GEOM I/O events occuring
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.


# 136399 11-Oct-2004 ups

Trace information about a buffer while we still control it.

Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: sam (mentor)


# 136201 06-Oct-2004 phk

Don't set the BIO_ONQUEUE debugging flag until we actually put the bio
onto a queue. This made the ENOMEM handling an instant panic.


# 135876 28-Sep-2004 phk

Protect the start/end counts on consumers and providers with the up/down
mutexes.

Make it possible to also protect the disk statistics (at a minor cost in
performance) by setting bit 2 of kern.geom.collectstats.


# 135873 28-Sep-2004 pjd

- Set maximum request size to MAXPHYS (128kB), instead of DFLPHYS (64kB).
- Set minimum request size to sectorsize, instead of 512 bytes.

Approved by: phk (some time ago)


# 134519 30-Aug-2004 phk

Add more KASSERTS and checks.


# 134379 27-Aug-2004 phk

Introduce g_alloc_bio() as a waiting variant of g_new_bio().

Use in places where we can sleep and where we previously failed to check
for a NULL pointer.

MT5 candidate.


# 133487 11-Aug-2004 pjd

When sending request once again because of ENOMEM, reset bio_children
and bio_inbed fields to 0. Without this change we can end up with
I/O leakage in some rare situations.
I tested this change by putting failure probability mechanism simlar
to this used in NOP class into g_clone_bio(9) function, so it was
able to return NULL with the given probability.

Discussed with: phk


# 131160 26-Jun-2004 rwatson

The g_up and g_down threads use a local 'mymutex' mutex to allow WITNESS
to warn about attempts to sleep in the I/O path. This change pushes the
definition and use of 'mymutex' behind #ifdef WITNESS to avoid the cost
in non-debugging cases. This results in a clear .22% performance win for
512 byte and 1k I/O tests on my SMP test box. Not much, but every bit
counts.


# 130280 09-Jun-2004 phk

Make the sysctl kern.geom.collectstats more granular.

Bit 0 controls statistics collection on GEOM providers.
Bit 1 controls statistics collection on GEOM consumers.

Default value is 1.

Prodded by: scottl


# 127863 04-Apr-2004 pjd

Calculate bio_completed properly or die!

Approved by: phk


# 125713 11-Feb-2004 pjd

Added g_print_bio() function to print informations about given bio.

Approved by: phk, scottl (mentor)


# 125137 28-Jan-2004 phk

Bring back the geom_bioqueues, they _are_ a good idea.

ATA will uses these RSN.


# 123271 07-Dec-2003 truckman

Correct usage of mtx_init() API. This is not a functional change since
the code happened to work because MTX_DEF and NULL are both defined as 0.

Reviewed by: phk


# 121323 22-Oct-2003 phk

Forgotten commit: If a provider has zero sectorsize, it is an
indication of lack of media.

Tripped up: peter


# 121253 19-Oct-2003 phk

Remove KASSERT check for negative bio_offsets, add "normal" EIO
error return for same.


# 120852 06-Oct-2003 phk

Allow our bio tools to be used for local bio-chopping by not mandating
a bio_from value. bio_to is still mandated (mostly for debuggign) and
shall be copied from the parent bio.


# 120493 26-Sep-2003 phk

Add more KASSERTS().


# 119973 11-Sep-2003 phk

Reorder a couple of KASSERTS to give more sensible messages.

Found by: GEOM 101 class of '03


# 118855 13-Aug-2003 phk

In case we encounter a zero sectorsize provider in g_io_check(), fail
the request with a printf rather than a divide by zero error.


# 116522 18-Jun-2003 phk

Sleep on "-" in our normal state to simplify debugging.


# 116196 11-Jun-2003 obrien

Use __FBSDID().

Approved by: phk


# 114795 07-May-2003 phk

Hide the "ENOMEM" notice messages behind bootverbose. They are still
a valuable debugging tool for certain kinds of problems.

Approved by: re/scottl


# 114526 02-May-2003 phk

Use an uma-zone for allocation bio requests.


# 114511 02-May-2003 phk

Back out all the stuff that didn't belong in the last commit.


# 114508 02-May-2003 phk

Use g_slice_spoiled() rather than g_std_spoiled().

Remember to free the buffer we got from g_read_data().


# 113432 13-Apr-2003 phk

Time has run from the "run GEOM in userland" harness, and the new regression
test is built to test GEOM as running in the kernel.

This commit is basically "unifdef -D_KERNEL" to remove the mainly #include
related code to support the userland-harness.


# 113392 12-Apr-2003 phk

Retire the experimental bio_taskqueue(), it was not quite as usable as
hoped. It can be revived from here, should other drivers be able to
use it.


# 113032 03-Apr-2003 phk

Remove all references to BIO_SETATTR. We will not be using it.


# 112830 29-Mar-2003 phk

Fix a bug in the ENOMEM pacing code which probably made it panic systems
after a lot of ENOMEM errors.


# 112370 18-Mar-2003 phk

Retire the GEOM private statistics code and use devstat instead.


# 112367 18-Mar-2003 phk

Including <sys/stdint.h> is (almost?) universally only to be able to use
%j in printfs, so put a newsted include in <sys/systm.h> where the printf
prototype lives and save everybody else the trouble.


# 112027 09-Mar-2003 phk

Don't abuse the statistics counters for detecting if we have outstanding
I/O requests, instead use the new dedicated fields in the consumer and
provider to track this.


# 111119 19-Feb-2003 imp

Back out M_* changes, per decision of the TRB.

Approved by: trb


# 110736 11-Feb-2003 phk

Implement a bio-taskqueue to reduce number of context switches in
disk I/O processing.

The intent is that the disk driver in its hardware interrupt
routine will simply schedule the bio on the task queue with
a routine to finish off whatever needs done.

The g_up thread will then schedule this routine, the likely
outcome of which is a biodone() which queues the bio on
g_up's regular queue where it will be picked up and processed.

Compared to the using the regular taskqueue, this saves one
contextswitch.

Change our scheduling of the g_up and g_down queues to be water-tight,
at the cost of breaking the userland regression test-shims.

Input and ideas from: scottl


# 110703 11-Feb-2003 phk

Don't short-circuit zero-length requests of they are BIO_[SG]ETATTR.


# 110685 11-Feb-2003 phk

Turn the "updating" flag (back) into two sequence number fields at
either ends of the structure so we have a way to determine if a
snapshot is consistent.


# 110592 09-Feb-2003 phk

Update the statistics collection code to track busy time instead of
idle time.

Statistics now default to "on" and can be turned off with
sysctl kern.geom.collectstats=0

Performance impact of statistics collection is on the order of
800 nsec per consumer/provider set on a 700MHz Athlon.


# 110541 08-Feb-2003 phk

Move the g_stat struct to its own .h file, we will export it to other code.

Insted of embedding a struct g_stat in consumers and providers, merely
include a pointer.

Remove a couple of <sys/time.h> includes now unneeded.

Add a special allocator for struct g_stat. This allocator will allocate
entire pages and hand out g_stat functions from there. The "id" field
indicates free/used status.

Add "/dev/geom.stats" device driver whic exports the pages from the
allocator to userland with mmap(2) in read-only mode.

This mmap(2) interface should be considered a non-public interface and
the functions in libgeom (not yet committed) should be used to access
the statistics data.


# 110523 07-Feb-2003 phk

Commit the correct copy of the g_stat structure.

Add debug.sizeof.g_stat sysctl.

Set the id field of the g_stat when we create consumers and providers.

Remove biocount from consumer, we will use the counters in the g_stat
structure instead. Replace one field which will need to be atomically
manipulated with two fields which will not (stat.nop and stat.nend).

Change add companion field to bio_children: bio_inbed for the exact
same reason.

Don't output the biocount in the confdot output.

Fix KASSERT in g_io_request().

Add sysctl kern.geom.collectstats defaulting to off.

Collect the following raw statistics conditioned on this sysctl:

for each consumer and provider {
total number of operations started.
total number of operations completed.
time last operation completed.
sum of idle-time.
for each of BIO_READ, BIO_WRITE and BIO_DELETE {
number of operations completed.
number of bytes completed.
number of ENOMEM errors.
number of other errors.
sum of transaction time.
}
}

API for getting hold of these statistics data not included yet.


# 110517 07-Feb-2003 phk

Rename bio_linkage to the more obvious bio_parent.
Add bio_t0 timestamp, and include <sys/time.h> where needed


# 110471 06-Feb-2003 phk

Put the checks we perform on a bio before calling ::start in their
own function, handle all validation and truncation at the time we
process the bio instead of when it gets scheduled.


# 109623 21-Jan-2003 alfred

Remove M_TRYWAIT/M_WAITOK/M_WAIT. Callers should use 0.
Merge M_NOWAIT/M_DONTWAIT into a single flag M_NOWAIT.


# 108297 26-Dec-2002 phk

white-space changes


# 108051 18-Dec-2002 phk

Balk at unaligned requests.

MFC candidate.


# 106338 02-Nov-2002 phk

malloc(9) with M_NOWAIT seems to return NULL a lot more than I would have
expected under -current. This is a problem for GEOM because the up/down
threads cannot sleep waiting for memory to become free. The reason they
cannot sleep is that paging things out to disk may be the only way we can
clear up some RAM. Nice catch-22 there.

Implement a rudimentary ENOMEM recovery strategy: If an I/O request
fails with an error code of ENOMEM, schedule it for a retry, and
tell the down-thread to sleep hz/10 to get other parts of the system
a chance to free up some memory, in particular the up-path in GEOM.

All caches should probably start to monitor malloc(9) failures using the new
malloc_last_fail() function, and release when it indicates congestion.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 105506 20-Oct-2002 phk

Don't track bio allocation in debug output.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 105091 14-Oct-2002 phk

Add more KASSERTS.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 104701 09-Oct-2002 phk

Add support g_clone_bio() and g_std_done() to spawn multiple children
of a bio and correctly gather status when done.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 104665 08-Oct-2002 phk

For now, don't wait for drives to stop returning EBUSY. There is too
much broken harware around it seems.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 104606 07-Oct-2002 phk

Put a printf under #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 104195 30-Sep-2002 phk

Retire g_io_fail() and let g_io_deliver() take an error argument instead.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 104194 30-Sep-2002 phk

Introduce g_write_data() function.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs


# 104086 28-Sep-2002 phk

Void functions cannot use return(foo) even if foo is also returning void.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 104061 27-Sep-2002 phk

Setattr should not retry on EBUSY, we could get EBUSY back because
a disklabel modification tries to change an open device, and no
counter-examples exists.

Be less facist about when we can do Setattr, the openmodes of devices
are so loosely managed that the "exclusive" count is almost useless.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 104058 27-Sep-2002 phk

Allocate bio's with M_NOWAIT and let the caller deal with the problems.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 103283 13-Sep-2002 phk

Use biowait() rather than DIY.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs


# 96987 20-May-2002 phk

Don't grab Giant around malloc(9) and free(9).
Don't grab Giant around wakeup(9).
Don't print verbose messages about each device found in geom_dev.
Various cleanups.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.


# 94283 09-Apr-2002 phk

Constifixation of attribute argument to g_io_[gs]etattr()

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs


# 93818 04-Apr-2002 jhb

Change callers of mtx_init() to pass in an appropriate lock type name. In
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.

Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64


# 93778 04-Apr-2002 phk

Centralize EOF handling and improve access controls for bio scheduling.

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs


# 93250 26-Mar-2002 phk

Eliminate some thread pointers which do not make sense anymore.

Split private parts of geom.h into geom_int.h. The latter should
never be included in class implemtations.


# 93238 26-Mar-2002 phk

Push BIO_FORMAT into a local hack inside the floppy drivers where
it belongs.


# 92108 11-Mar-2002 phk

First commit of the GEOM subsystem to make it easier for people to
test and play with this.

This is not yet production quality and should be run only on dedicated
test boxes.

For people who want to develop transformations for GEOM there exist a
set of shims to run geom in userland (ask phk@freebsd.org).

Reports of all kinds to: phk@freebsd.org
Please include in report:
dmesg
sysctl debug.geomdot
sysctl debug.geomconf

Known significant limitations:
no kernel dump facility.
ioctls severely restricted.

Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs