History log of /freebsd-current/sys/cam/cam_xpt.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 6332e0f1 22-Nov-2023 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

CAM: Remove return value from xpt_path_sbuf()

It is wrong to call sbuf_len() on third-party sbuf. If that sbuf
has a drain function, it ends up in assertion. But even would it
work, it would return not newly written length, but the full one.
Searching through the sources I don't see this value used.


# 70f2356d 02-Nov-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

cam: Make cam_debug macros atomic

The CAM_DEBUG* macros use multiple printfs to dump the data. This is
suboptimal when tracing things that produce even a moderate amount since
it gets intertwingled. I can't even turn on tracing with a 24-disk HBA
on boot without it getting messed up. Add helper routines to work around
clang's over-use of the stack: that way we only pay the stack penalty
when a trace hits.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: ken, mav
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42411


# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 7af2f2c8 24-Jul-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

cam: Migrate to modern uintXX_t from u_intXX_t

As per https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-scsi/2023-July/000257.html
move to the modern uintXX_t.

MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 50aa1daf 28-Jun-2021 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

cam: change xpt_clone_path to return int

xpt_clone_path originally returned a cam_status, but it doesn't do I/O
and should return an errno instead. I added it last year and it's only
used in one place. It's not yet documented, so no doc changes are
nneeded.

Reviewed by: scottl@, mav@
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30884


# 1ed40162 28-Jun-2021 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

cam: add xpt_path_sim_device to return device_t associated with a path

Return the device associated with the sim's bus when it called
xpt_bus_register, if any. Most real SIMs in the tree set this device,
but some virtual ones do not have a device_t assocaited with them.

Reviewed by: scottl@, mav@ (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30853


# 9f1e411a 28-Jun-2021 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

cam: Group all xpt_path*() functions together in cam_xpt.h

Reviewed by: scottl@
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30852


# 27dcd3d9 01-Sep-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

cam: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files


# f66ca1b1 19-Jun-2020 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Use the more descriptive src_ccb and dst_ccb for the two ccbs being merged.

MFC after: 1 week


# 3dfb13c1 10-Mar-2020 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Eliminate xpt_copy_path.

It's used in exactly one place. In that place it's used so we can hold the lock
on the device associated with the path (since we do a xpt_path_lock and unlock
pair around the callback). Instead, inline taking and dropping the reference to
the device so we can ensure we can unlock the mutex after the callback finishes
if the path in the ccb that's queued to be processed by xpt_scanner_thread is
destroyed while being processed. We don't actually need the path itself for
anything other than dereferencing it to get the device to do the lock and
unlock.

This also makes the locking / use model for cam_path a little cleaner by
eliminating a case where we needlessly copy the object.

Reviewed by: chuck, chs, ken
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24008


# 0cc28e3c 13-Aug-2018 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Create xpt_sim_poll and refactor a bit using it.

xpt_sim_poll takes the sim to poll as an argument. It will do the
proper locking protocol, call the SIM polling routine, and then call
camisr_runqueue to process completions on any CCBs the SIM's poll
routine completed. It will be used during late shutdown when a SIM is
waiting for CCBs it sent during shutdown to finish and the scheduler
isn't running because we've panic'd.

This sequence was used twice in cam_xpt, so refactor those to use this
new function.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16663


# 762a7f4f 06-Dec-2017 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Define xpt_path_inq.

This provides a nice wrarpper around the XPT_PATH_INQ ccb creation and
calling.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13387


# f93a843c 06-Dec-2017 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Make cam_periph_runccb be safe to call when we can only do polling.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13388


# bec9534d 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/cam: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.


# a94a63f0 09-Jul-2017 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

An MMC/SD/SDIO stack using CAM

Implement the MMC/SD/SDIO protocol within a CAM framework. CAM's
flexible queueing will make it easier to write non-storage drivers
than the legacy stack. SDIO drivers from both the kernel and as
userland daemons are possible, though much of that functionality will
come later.

Some of the CAM integration isn't complete (there are sleeps in the
device probe state machine, for example), but those minor issues can
be improved in-tree more easily than out of tree and shouldn't gate
progress on other fronts. Appologies to reviews if specific items
have been overlooked.

Submitted by: Ilya Bakulin
Reviewed by: emaste, imp, mav, adrian, ian
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4761

merge with first commit, various compile hacks.


# 2379d1d6 25-Feb-2017 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Move inclusion of opt_printf.h around so that we can compile all the
SCSI modules outside of a sub-build from the kernel.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9653
Sponsored by: Netflix


# a196ef64 26-Jan-2017 Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>

Fix libcam build. It was broken with r312827.


# ab3e89f1 26-Jan-2017 Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>

Refactor xpt_print_path, xpt_print, and xpt_path_string. Implement
all of them in terms of an sbuf-based back-end, xpt_path_sbuf. This
unifies the implementation, but more importantly it stops the output
fropm being split between 4 or more invocations of printf. The
multiple invocations cause interleaving of the messages on the
console during boot, making the output of disk discovery often
unintelligible. This change helps a lot, but more work is needed.

Reviewed by: ken, mav
Sponsored by: Netflix


# a9934668 03-Dec-2015 Kenneth D. Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>

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


# 4a3760ba 11-Oct-2015 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Remove compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names.

We got new ATA stack in FreeBSD 8.x, switched to it at 9.x, completely
removed old stack at 10.x, so at 11.x it is time to remove compat shims.


# 227d67aa 20-Oct-2013 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Merge CAM locking changes from the projects/camlock branch to radically
reduce lock congestion and improve SMP scalability of the SCSI/ATA stack,
preparing the ground for the coming next GEOM direct dispatch support.

Replace big per-SIM locks with bunch of smaller ones:
- per-LUN locks to protect device and peripheral drivers state;
- per-target locks to protect list of LUNs on target;
- per-bus locks to protect reference counting;
- per-send queue locks to protect queue of CCBs to be sent;
- per-done queue locks to protect queue of completed CCBs;
- remaining per-SIM locks now protect only HBA driver internals.

While holding LUN lock it is allowed (while not recommended for performance
reasons) to take SIM lock. The opposite acquisition order is forbidden.
All the other locks are leaf locks, that can be taken anywhere, but should
not be cascaded. Many functions, such as: xpt_action(), xpt_done(),
xpt_async(), xpt_create_path(), etc. are no longer require (but allow) SIM
lock to be held.

To keep compatibility and solve cases where SIM lock can't be dropped, all
xpt_async() calls in addition to xpt_done() calls are queued to completion
threads for async processing in clean environment without SIM lock held.

Instead of single CAM SWI thread, used for commands completion processing
before, use multiple (depending on number of CPUs) threads. Load balanced
between them using "hash" of the device B:T:L address.

HBA drivers that can drop SIM lock during completion processing and have
sufficient number of completion threads to efficiently scale to multiple
CPUs can use new function xpt_done_direct() to avoid extra context switch.
Make ahci(4) driver to use this mechanism depending on hardware setup.

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


# 0d4f3c31 01-Sep-2013 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add debug trace points for freeze/release device queue.


# f0f25b9c 07-Jun-2012 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

To make CAM debugging easier, compile in some debug flags (CAM_DEBUG_INFO,
CAM_DEBUG_CDB, CAM_DEBUG_PERIPH and CAM_DEBUG_PROBE) by default.
List of these flags can be modified with CAM_DEBUG_COMPILE kernel option.
CAMDEBUG kernel option still enables all possible debug, if not overriden.

Additional 50KB of kernel size is a good price for the ability to debug
problems without rebuilding the kernel. In case where size is important,
debugging can be compiled out by setting CAM_DEBUG_COMPILE option to 0.


# 15975b7b 12-Aug-2011 Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>

Fixes for sure bus reference miscounting and potential device and
target reference miscounts. It also adds a helper function to get
the current reference counts for components of cam_path for debug
aid. One minor style(9) change.

Partially Obtained from: Chuck Tuffli (Emulex)
Reviewed by: scsi@ (ken)
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 month


# 3501942b 14-Jun-2011 Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>

Lay groundwork in CAM for recording and reporting physical path and
other device attributes stored in the CAM Existing Device Table (EDT).
This includes some infrastructure requried by the enclosure services
driver to export physical path information.

Make the CAM device advanced info interface accept store requests.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
- Replace scsi_get_sas_addr() with a scsi_get_devid() which takes
a callback that decides whether to accept a particular descriptor.
Provide callbacks for NAA IEEE Registered addresses and for SAS
addresses, replacing the old function. This is needed because
the old function doesn't work for an enclosure address for a SAS
device, which is not flagged as a SAS address, but is NAA IEEE
Registered. It may be worthwhile merging this interface with the
devid match interface.
- Add a few more defines for some device ID fields.

sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c:
- Update for the CCB_DEV_ADVINFO interface change.

cam/cam_xpt_internal.h:
- Add the new fields for the physical path string to the CAM EDT.
cam/cam_ccb.h:
- Rename CCB_GDEV_ADVINFO to simply CCB_DEV_ADVINFO, and the ccb
structure to ccb_dev_advinfo.
- Add a flag that changes this CCB's action to store, rather than
the default, retrieve.
- Add a new buffer type, CDAI_TYPE_PHYS_PATH, for the new CAM EDT
physpath field.
- Remove the never-implemented transport & proto flags.
cam/cam_xpt.c:
cam/cam_xpt.h:
- Add xpt_getattr(), which provides a wrapper for fetching a device's
attribute using the GEOM strings as key. This method currently
supports "GEOM::ident" and "GEOM::physpath".

Submitted by: will
Reviewed by : gibbs

Extend the XPT_DEV_MATCH api to allow a device search by device ID.
As far as the API is concerned, device ID is a binary blob to be
interpreted by the transport layer. The SCSI implementation assumes
it is an array of VPD device ID descriptors.

sys/cam/cam_ccb.h:
Create a new structure, device_id_match_pattern, and
update the XPT_DEV_MATCH datastructures and flags so
that this pattern type can be used.

sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
- A single pattern matching on both inquiry data and device
ID is invalid. Report any violators.
- Pass device ID match requests through to the new routine
scsi_devid_match(). The direct call of a SCSI routine is
a layering violation, but no worse than the one a few
lines up that checks inquiry data. Defer cleaning this
up until our future, larger, rototilling of CAM.
- Zero out cam_ed and cam_et nodes on allocation. Prior to
this change, device_id_len and device_id were not inialized,
preventing proper detection of the presence of this
information.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
Add the scsi_match_devid() routine.

Add a helper function for extracting peripherial driver names

sys/cam/cam_periph.c:
sys/cam/cam_periph.h:
Add the cam_periph_list() method which fills an sbuf
with a comma delimited list of the peripheral instances
associated with a given CAM path.

Add a helper functions for SCSI commands used by the SES driver.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
Add structure definitions and csio filling functions for
the receive diagnostic results and send diagnostic commands.

Misc CAM XPT cleanups.

sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
Broadcast AC_FOUND_DEVICE and AC_PATH_REGISTERED
events at the time async event handlers are attached
even when registering just for events on a partitular
SIM. Previously, you had to register for these
events on all SIMs in the system in order to get
the initial broadcast even though subsequent device
and path arrivals would be delivered.

sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
Remove SIM mutex held asserts from path accessors.
CAM paths are reference counted and it is this
reference count, not the sim mutex, that garantees
they are stable.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation


# 0d307e09 26-Apr-2011 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

- Add shim to simplify migration to the CAM-based ATA. For each new adaX
device in /dev/ create symbolic link with adY name, trying to mimic old ATA
numbering. Imitation is not complete, but should be enough in most cases to
mount file systems without touching /etc/fstab.
- To know what behavior to mimic, restore ATA_STATIC_ID option in cases
where it was present before.
- Add some more details to UPDATING.


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# 50ae5fde 14-Feb-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

MFC r203108:
Large set of CAM improvements:
- Unify bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later,
CAM will automatically reset and scan it. It allows to remove duplicate
code from many drivers.
- Any bus, attached before CAM completed it's boot-time initialization,
will equally join to the process, delaying boot if needed.
- New kern.cam.boot_delay loader tunable should help controllers that
are still unable to register their buses in time (such as slow USB/
PCCard/ CardBus devices), by adding one more event to wait on boot.
- To allow synchronization between different CAM levels, concept of
requests priorities was extended. Priorities now split between several
"run levels". Device can be freezed at specified level, allowing higher
priority requests to pass. For example, no payload requests allowed,
until PMP driver enable port. ATA XPT negotiate transfer parameters,
periph driver configure caching and so on.
- Frozen requests are no more counted by request allocation scheduler.
It fixes deadlocks, when frozen low priority payload requests occupying
slots, required by higher levels to manage theit execution.
- Two last changes were holding proper ATA reinitialization and error
recovery implementation. Now it is done: SATA controllers and Port
Multipliers now implement automatic hot-plug and should correctly
recover from timeouts and bus resets.
- Improve SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without automatic sense
reporting, such as ATAPI or USB. For example, it allows CAM to wait, while
CD drive loads disk, instead of immediately return error status.
- Decapitalize diagnostic messages and make them more readable and sensible.
- Teach PMP driver to limit maximum speed on fan-out ports.
- Make boot wait for PMP scan completes, and make rescan more reliable.
- Fix pass driver, to return CCB to user level in case of error.
- Increase number of retries in cd driver, as device may return several UAs.


# 83c5d981 28-Jan-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

MFp4: Large set of CAM inprovements.

- Unify bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later,
CAM will automatically reset and scan it. It allows to remove duplicate
code from many drivers.
- Any bus, attached before CAM completed it's boot-time initialization,
will equally join to the process, delaying boot if needed.
- New kern.cam.boot_delay loader tunable should help controllers that
are still unable to register their buses in time (such as slow USB/
PCCard/ CardBus devices), by adding one more event to wait on boot.
- To allow synchronization between different CAM levels, concept of
requests priorities was extended. Priorities now split between several
"run levels". Device can be freezed at specified level, allowing higher
priority requests to pass. For example, no payload requests allowed,
until PMP driver enable port. ATA XPT negotiate transfer parameters,
periph driver configure caching and so on.
- Frozen requests are no more counted by request allocation scheduler.
It fixes deadlocks, when frozen low priority payload requests occupying
slots, required by higher levels to manage theit execution.
- Two last changes were holding proper ATA reinitialization and error
recovery implementation. Now it is done: SATA controllers and Port
Multipliers now implement automatic hot-plug and should correctly
recover from timeouts and bus resets.
- Improve SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without automatic sense
reporting, such as ATAPI or USB. For example, it allows CAM to wait, while
CD drive loads disk, instead of immediately return error status.
- Decapitalize diagnostic messages and make them more readable and sensible.
- Teach PMP driver to limit maximum speed on fan-out ports.
- Make boot wait for PMP scan completes, and make rescan more reliable.
- Fix pass driver, to return CCB to user level in case of error.
- Increase number of retries in cd driver, as device may return several UAs.


# 52c9ce25 10-Jul-2009 Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>

Separate the parallel scsi knowledge out of the core of the XPT, and
modularize it so that new transports can be created.

Add a transport for SATA

Add a periph+protocol layer for ATA

Add a driver for AHCI-compliant hardware.

Add a maxio field to CAM so that drivers can advertise their max
I/O capability. Modify various drivers so that they are insulated
from the value of MAXPHYS.

The new ATA/SATA code supports AHCI-compliant hardware, and will override
the classic ATA driver if it is loaded as a module at boot time or compiled
into the kernel. The stack now support NCQ (tagged queueing) for increased
performance on modern SATA drives. It also supports port multipliers.

ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes. ATAPI drives are
accessed via 'cd' device nodes. They can all be enumerated and manipulated
via camcontrol, just like SCSI drives. SCSI commands are not translated to
their ATA equivalents; ATA native commands are used throughout the entire
stack, including camcontrol. See the camcontrol manpage for further
details. Testing this code may require that you update your fstab, and
possibly modify your BIOS to enable AHCI functionality, if available.

This code is very experimental at the moment. The userland ABI/API has
changed, so applications will need to be recompiled. It may change
further in the near future. The 'ada' device name may also change as
more infrastructure is completed in this project. The goal is to
eventually put all CAM busses and devices until newbus, allowing for
interesting topology and management options.

Few functional changes will be seen with existing SCSI/SAS/FC drivers,
though the userland ABI has still changed. In the future, transports
specific modules for SAS and FC may appear in order to better support
the topologies and capabilities of these technologies.

The modularization of CAM and the addition of the ATA/SATA modules is
meant to break CAM out of the mold of being specific to SCSI, letting it
grow to be a framework for arbitrary transports and protocols. It also
allows drivers to be written to support discrete hardware without
jeopardizing the stability of non-related hardware. While only an AHCI
driver is provided now, a Silicon Image driver is also in the works.
Drivers for ICH1-4, ICH5-6, PIIX, classic IDE, and any other hardware
is possible and encouraged. Help with new transports is also encouraged.

Submitted by: scottl, mav
Approved by: re


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# 85d92640 16-May-2007 Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>

Add a helper function for registering async callbacks. Besides
eliminating a lot of duplicated code, this also fixes a locking edge case.


# 2b83592f 15-Apr-2007 Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>

Remove Giant from CAM. Drivers (SIMs) now register a mutex that CAM will
use to synchornize and protect all data objects that are used for that
SIM. Drivers that are not yet MPSAFE register Giant and operate as
usual. RIght now, no drivers are MPSAFE, though a few will be changed
in the coming week as this work settles down.

The driver API has changed, so all CAM drivers will need to be recompiled.
The userland API has not changed, so tools like camcontrol do not need to
be recompiled.


# 9e6461a2 22-Feb-2007 Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>

Add an xpt_rescan function and a thread that will field
rescan requests. The purpose of this is to allow a SIM
(or other entities) to request a bus rescan and have it
then fielded in a different (process) context from the
caller.

There are probably better ways to accomplish this, but
it's a very small change that helps solve a number of
problems.

Reviewed by: Justin, Ken and Scott.
MFC after: 2 weeks


# f0d9af51 05-Dec-2006 Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>

Add an xpt_print function to reduce most of the xpt_print_path/printf
pairs. Convert the core code to use it.

Reviewed by: scsi (various folks weighing in with good advice)
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 898b0535 05-Jan-2005 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Start each of the license/copyright comments with /*-


# 3393f8da 26-Mar-2001 Kenneth D. Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>

Rewrite of the CAM error recovery code.

Some of the major changes include:

- The SCSI error handling portion of cam_periph_error() has
been broken out into a number of subfunctions to better
modularize the code that handles the hierarchy of SCSI errors.
As a result, the code is now much easier to read.

- String handling and error printing has been significantly
revamped. We now use sbufs to do string formatting instead
of using printfs (for the kernel) and snprintf/strncat (for
userland) as before.

There is a new catchall error printing routine,
cam_error_print() and its string-based counterpart,
cam_error_string() that allow the kernel and userland
applications to pass in a CCB and have errors printed out
properly, whether or not they're SCSI errors. Among other
things, this helped eliminate a fair amount of duplicate code
in camcontrol.

We now print out more information than before, including
the CAM status and SCSI status and the error recovery action
taken to remedy the problem.

- sbufs are now available in userland, via libsbuf. This
change was necessary since most of the error printing code
is shared between libcam and the kernel.

- A new transfer settings interface is included in this checkin.
This code is #ifdef'ed out, and is primarily intended to aid
discussion with HBA driver authors on the final form the
interface should take. There is example code in the ahc(4)
driver that implements the HBA driver side of the new
interface. The new transfer settings code won't be enabled
until we're ready to switch all HBA drivers over to the new
interface.

src/Makefile.inc1,
lib/Makefile: Add libsbuf. It must be built before libcam,
since libcam uses sbuf routines.

libcam/Makefile: libcam now depends on libsbuf.

libsbuf/Makefile: Add a makefile for libsbuf. This pulls in the
sbuf sources from sys/kern.

bsd.libnames.mk: Add LIBSBUF.

camcontrol/Makefile: Add -lsbuf. Since camcontrol is statically
linked, we can't depend on the dynamic linker
to pull in libsbuf.

camcontrol.c: Use cam_error_print() instead of checking for
CAM_SCSI_STATUS_ERROR on every failed CCB.

sbuf.9: Change the prototypes for sbuf_cat() and
sbuf_cpy() so that the source string is now a
const char *. This is more in line wth the
standard system string functions, and helps
eliminate warnings when dealing with a const
source buffer.

Fix a typo.

cam.c: Add description strings for the various CAM
error status values, as well as routines to
look up those strings.

Add new cam_error_string() and
cam_error_print() routines for userland and
the kernel.

cam.h: Add a new CAM flag, CAM_RETRY_SELTO.

Add enumerated types for the various options
available with cam_error_print() and
cam_error_string().

cam_ccb.h: Add new transfer negotiation structures/types.

Change inq_len in the ccb_getdev structure to
be "reserved". This field has never been
filled in, and will be removed when we next
bump the CAM version.

cam_debug.h: Fix typo.

cam_periph.c: Modularize cam_periph_error(). The SCSI error
handling part of cam_periph_error() is now
in camperiphscsistatuserror() and
camperiphscsisenseerror().

In cam_periph_lock(), increase the reference
count on the periph while we wait for our lock
attempt to succeed so that the periph won't go
away while we're sleeping.

cam_xpt.c: Add new transfer negotiation code. (ifdefed
out)

Add a new function, xpt_path_string(). This
is a string/sbuf analog to xpt_print_path().

scsi_all.c: Revamp string handing and error printing code.
We now use sbufs for much of the string
formatting code. More of that code is shared
between userland the kernel.

scsi_all.h: Get rid of SS_TURSTART, it wasn't terribly
useful in the first place.

Add a new error action, SS_REQSENSE. (Send a
request sense and then retry the command.)
This is useful when the controller hasn't
performed autosense for some reason.

Change the default actions around a bit.

scsi_cd.c,
scsi_da.c,
scsi_pt.c,
scsi_ses.c: SF_RETRY_SELTO -> CAM_RETRY_SELTO. Selection
timeouts shouldn't be covered by a sense flag.

scsi_pass.[ch]: SF_RETRY_SELTO -> CAM_RETRY_SELTO.

Get rid of the last vestiges of a read/write
interface.

libkern/bsearch.c,
sys/libkern.h,
conf/files: Add bsearch.c, which is needed for some of the
new table lookup routines.

aic7xxx_freebsd.c: Define AHC_NEW_TRAN_SETTINGS if
CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE is defined.

sbuf.h,
subr_sbuf.c: Add the appropriate #ifdefs so sbufs can
compile and run in userland.

Change sbuf_printf() to use vsnprintf()
instead of kvprintf(), which is only available
in the kernel.

Change the source string for sbuf_cpy() and
sbuf_cat() to be a const char *.

Add __BEGIN_DECLS and __END_DECLS around
function prototypes since they're now exported
to userland.

kdump/mkioctls: Include stdio.h before cam.h since cam.h now
includes a function with a FILE * argument.

Submitted by: gibbs (mostly)
Reviewed by: jdp, marcel (libsbuf makefile changes)
Reviewed by: des (sbuf changes)
Reviewed by: ken


# c4473420 28-Dec-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.


# c3aac50f 27-Aug-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 8b8a9b1d 15-Sep-1998 Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>

CAM Transport Layer (XPT).

Submitted by: The CAM Team