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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

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

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

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


# 242359 30-Oct-2012 trasz

Document disk_resize(9).


# 237518 24-Jun-2012 ken

Fix a bug which causes a panic in daopen(). The panic is caused by
a da(4) instance going away while GEOM is still probing it.

In this case, the GEOM disk class instance has been created by
disk_create(), and the taste of the disk is queued in the GEOM
event queue.

While that event is queued, the da(4) instance goes away. When the
open call comes into the da(4) driver, it dereferences the freed
(but non-NULL) peripheral pointer provided by GEOM, which results
in a panic.

The solution is to add a callback to the GEOM disk code that is
called when all of its resources are cleaned up. This is
implemented inside GEOM by adding an optional callback that is
called when all consumers have detached from a provider, and the
provider is about to be deleted.

scsi_cd.c,
scsi_da.c: In the register routine for the cd(4) and da(4)
routines, acquire a reference to the CAM peripheral
instance just before we call disk_create().

Use the new GEOM disk d_gone() callback to register
a callback (dadiskgonecb()/cddiskgonecb()) that
decrements the peripheral reference count once GEOM
has finished cleaning up its resources.

In the cd(4) driver, clean up open and close
behavior slightly. GEOM makes sure we only get one
open() and one close call, so there is no need to
set an open flag and decrement the reference count
if we are not the first open.

In the cd(4) driver, use cam_periph_release_locked()
in a couple of error scenarios to avoid extra mutex
calls.

geom.h: Add a new, optional, providergone callback that
is called when a provider is about to be deleted.

geom_disk.h: Add a new d_gone() callback to the GEOM disk
interface.

Bump the DISK_VERSION to version 2. This probably
should have been done after a couple of previous
changes, especially the addition of the d_getattr()
callback.

geom_disk.c: Add a providergone callback for the disk class,
g_disk_providergone(), that calls the user's
d_gone() callback if it exists.

Bump the DISK_VERSION to 2.

geom_subr.c: In g_destroy_provider(), call the providergone
callback if it has been provided.

In g_new_geomf(), propagate the class's
providergone callback to the new geom instance.

blkfront.c: Callers of disk_create() are supposed to pass in
DISK_VERSION, not an explicit disk API version
number. Update the blkfront driver to do that.

disk.9: Update the disk(9) man page to include information
on the new d_gone() callback, as well as the
previously added d_getattr() callback, d_descr
field, and HBA PCI ID fields.

MFC after: 5 days


# 188917 22-Feb-2009 trasz

Mention disk_gone() in disk(9).

Approved by: rwatson (mentor)


# 169285 05-May-2007 pjd

- Extend disk structure to allow to store disk's serial number, which can be
retrieved via GEOM::ident attribute.
- Bump disk(9) ABI version.

OK'ed by: phk


# 166307 28-Jan-2007 rwatson

Fix minor type: "struct disk *" instead of "struct *disk".

MFC after: 3 days


# 163833 31-Oct-2006 pjd

Add a new disk flag - DISKFLAG_CANFLUSHCACHE, which indicates that the disk
can handle BIO_FLUSH requests.

Sponsored by: home.pl


# 130843 21-Jun-2004 mpp

Spelling fixes.


# 125996 19-Feb-2004 ru

Improve formatting.


# 125979 18-Feb-2004 phk

Improve contents, ruin formatting.


# 121402 23-Oct-2003 hmp

Correct #include file in SYNOPSIS:

It is not sys/geom_disk.h, but located under geom/ directory,
so, mark it geom/geom_disk.h.


# 121401 23-Oct-2003 hmp

Mdoc Janitor:

* Uppercase .Dt command contents.

* Make use of .Fo and .Fc for marking up functions with
a lot of arguments.

NOTE: Please do not use the `\' line seperator for mdoc(7)
manual pages, as it has problems of its own on some displays;
instead, consult the mdoc(7) manual on using .Fo and .Fc.

* Change 'man' to 'manual' for consistency.


# 120497 26-Sep-2003 rwatson

Additional information on the memory properties of struct disk
instances: the memory holding a struct disk should be pre-zeroed so
as to initialize any storage framework private data in the structures
properly. In addition, the memory must be writable so that the
private data may be updated.

Pointed out by: phk


# 120496 26-Sep-2003 rwatson

Documentation of kernel disk_create() and disk_destroy() APIs. These
APIs permit disk device drivers to register and deregister storage devices
for use by storage device consumers. No doubt this API will change
more as time flies by, but this should be helpful to the creators of
new storage device drivers.

Reviewed by: phk