History log of /freebsd-current/sys/cam/ctl/ctl_backend.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# bef5da8e 02-May-2024 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

ctl: Add helper routines to populate NVMe namespace data IDs for a LUN

These will be used by the backends to populate the unique ID fields
like EUI64 in the NVMe namespace data (CNS == 0) and namespace
identification descriptor list (CNS == 3).

Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44721


# 2ff63af9 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

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

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


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spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD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


# ac503c19 06-Apr-2021 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Introduce "soft" serseq variant.

With new ZFS prefetcher improvements it is no longer needed to fully
serialize reads to reach decent prediction hit rate. Softer variant
only creates small time window to reduce races instead of completely
blocking following reads while previous is running. It much less
hurts the performance in case of prediction miss.

MFC after: 1 month


# 2c7dc6ba 21-Feb-2021 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Refactor CTL datamove KPI.

- Make frontends call unified CTL core method ctl_datamove_done()
to report move completion. It allows to reduce code duplication
in differerent backends by accounting DMA time in common code.
- Add to ctl_datamove_done() and be_move_done() callback samethr
argument, reporting whether the callback is called in the same
context as ctl_datamove(). It allows for some cases like iSCSI
write with immediate data or camsim frontend write save one context
switch, since we know that the context is sleepable.
- Remove data_move_done() methods from struct ctl_backend_driver,
unused since forever.

MFC after: 1 month


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

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


# 767300e8 28-May-2020 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Make struct ctl_be_lun first element of struct ctl_be_*_lun.

It allows to remove some extra pointer dereferences and slightly tightens
up the code by unification.

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


# 34144c2c 02-May-2020 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Cleanup LUN addition/removal.

- Make ctl_add_lun() synchronous. Asynchronous addition was used by
Copan's proprietary code long ago and never for upstream FreeBSD.
- Move LUN enable/disable calls from backends to CTL core.
- Serialize LUN modification and partially removal to avoid double frees.
- Slightly unify backends code.

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


# 8951f055 09-May-2018 Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>

Rework CTL frontend & backend options to use nv(3), allow creating multiple
ioctl frontend ports.

This revision introduces two changes to CTL:
- Changes the way options are passed to CTL_LUN_REQ and CTL_PORT_REQ ioctls.
Removes ctl_be_arg structure and associated logic and replaces it with
nv(3)-based logic for passing in and out arguments.
- Allows creating multiple ioctl frontend ports using either ctladm(8) or
ctld(8).
New frontend ports are represented by /dev/cam/ctl<pp>.<vp> nodes, eg /dev/cam/ctl5.3.
Those device nodes respond only to CTL_IO ioctl.

New command-line options for ctladm:
# creates new ioctl frontend port with using free pp and vp=0
ctladm port -c
# creates new ioctl frontend port with pp=10 and vp=0
ctladm port -c -O pp=10
# creates new ioctl frontend port with pp=11 and vp=12
ctladm port -c -O pp=11 -O vp=12
# removes port with number 4 (it's a "targ_port" number, not pp number)
ctladm port -r -p 4

New syntax for ctl.conf:
target ... {
port ioctl/<pp>
...
}

target ... {
port ioctl/<pp>/<vp>
...

Note: Most of this work was made by jceel@, thank you.

Submitted by: jceel
Reworked by: myself
Reviewed by: mav (earlier versions and recently during the rework)
Obtained from: FreeNAS and TrueOS
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9299


# 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.


# 0c629e28 21-Jan-2017 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add initial support for CTL module unloading.

It is only a first step and not perfect, but better then nothing.
The main blocker is CAM target frontend, that can not be unloaded,
since CAM does not have mechanism to unregister periph driver now.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# bb8f9017 09-Jan-2017 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Rewrite CTL statistics in more simple and scalable way.

Instead of collecting statistics for each combination of ports and logical
units, that consumed ~45KB per LU with present number of ports, collect
separate statistics for every port and every logical unit separately, that
consume only 176 bytes per each single LU/port. This reduces struct
ctl_lun size down to just 6KB.

Also new IOCTL API/ABI does not hardcode number of LUs/ports, and should
allow handling of very large quantities.

MFC after: 2 weeks (probably keeping old API enabled for some time)


# 648dfc1a 28-Sep-2015 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Umplement media load/eject support for removable devices.

In case of block backend eject really closes the backing store, while
load tries to open it back. Failed store open is reported as no media.


# 7ac58230 09-Sep-2015 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Reimplement CTL High Availability.

CTL HA functionality was originally implemented by Copan many years ago,
but large part of the sources was never published. This change includes
clean room implementation of the missing code and fixes for many bugs.

This code supports dual-node HA with ALUA in four modes:
- Active/Unavailable without interlink between nodes;
- Active/Standby with second node handling only basic LUN discovery and
reservation, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with both nodes processing commands and accessing the
backing storage, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with second node working as proxy, transfering all
commands to the first node for execution through the interlink.

Unlike original Copan's implementation, depending on specific hardware,
this code uses simple custom TCP-based protocol for interlink. It has
no authentication, so it should never be enabled on public interfaces.

The code may still need some polishing, but generally it is functional.

Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 0bcd4ab6 06-Sep-2015 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Move setting of media parameters inside open routines.

This is preparation for possibility to open/close media several times
per LUN life cycle. While there, rename variables to reduce confusion.
As additional bonus this allows to open read-only media, such as ZFS
snapshots.


# cb8727e2 18-Dec-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Pass real optimal transfer size supported by backend.

For files and ZVOLs that is 1MB now, not 128K.

MFC after: 1 week


# 34961f40 17-Dec-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add configuration options to override physical and UNMAP blocks geometry.

While in most cases CTL should correctly fetch those values from backing
storages, there are some initiators (like MS SQL), that may not like large
physical block sizes, even if they are true. For such cases allow override
fetched values with supported ones (like 4K).

MFC after: 1 week


# bfbfc4a3 06-Dec-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Count consecutive read requests as blocking in CTL for files and ZVOLs.

Technically read requests can be executed in any order or simultaneously
since they are not changing any data. But ZFS prefetcher goes crasy when
it receives consecutive requests from different threads. Since prefetcher
works on level of separate blocks, instead of two consecutive 128K requests
it may receive 32 8K requests in mixed order.

This patch is more workaround then a real fix, and it does not fix all of
prefetcher problems, but it improves sequential read speed by 3-4x times
in some configurations. On the other side it may hurt performance if
some backing store has no prefetch, that is why it is disabled by default
for raw devices.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# c3e7ba3e 05-Nov-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add to CTL support for logical block provisioning threshold notifications.

For ZVOL-backed LUNs this allows to inform initiators if storage's used or
available spaces get above/below the configured thresholds.

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


# 9a0190c9 14-Oct-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Remove couple Copan's vendor-specific mode pages.

Those pages are highly system-/hardware-specific, the code is incomplete,
and so they hardly can be useful for anybody else.


# 19720f41 10-Oct-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Make ctld start even if some LUNs are unable to open backing storage.

Such LUNs will be visible to initiators, but return "not ready" status
on media access commands. If backing storage become available later,
`ctladm modify ...` or `service ctld reload` can trigger its reopen.


# 8a416753 08-Oct-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add support for WRITE ATOMIC (16) command and report SBC-4 compliance.

Atomic writes are only supported for ZVOLs in "dev" mode. In other cases
atomicity can not be guarantied and so the command is blocked.


# 43fb3a65 04-Jul-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Make options KPI more generic to allow it to be used for ports too,
not only for LUNs.


# 57a5db13 14-Jun-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Implement small KPI to access LUN options instead doing it by hands.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# ee7f31c0 08-Apr-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add support for SCSI UNMAP commands to CTL.

This patch adds support for three new SCSI commands: UNMAP, WRITE SAME(10)
and WRITE SAME(16). WRITE SAME commands support both normal write mode
and UNMAP flag. To properly report UNMAP capabilities this patch also adds
support for reporting two new VPD pages: Block limits and Logical Block
Provisioning.

UNMAP support can be enabled per-LUN by adding "-o unmap=on" to `ctladm
create` command line or "option unmap on" to lun sections of /etc/ctl.conf.

At this moment UNMAP supported for ramdisks and device-backed block LUNs.
It was tested to work great with ZFS ZVOLs. For file-backed LUNs UNMAP
support is unfortunately missing due to absence of respective VFS KPI.

Reviewed by: ken
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc


# f6012722 06-Apr-2014 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Report stripe size and offset of the backing device in READ CAPACITY (16)
as physical sector size and offset.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 81a2151d 23-Aug-2013 Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

CTL changes required for iSCSI target, most notably LUN remapping
and a mechanism to allow CTL frontends for retrieving LUN options.

Reviewed by: ken (earlier version)


# 81177295 06-Mar-2012 Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

Add LUN resizing to CTL. Also make it possible to explicitly set
size when creating file-backed or device-backed LUN.

Reviewed by: ken (earlier version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 130f4520 11-Jan-2012 Kenneth D. Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>

Add the CAM Target Layer (CTL).

CTL is a disk and processor device emulation subsystem originally written
for Copan Systems under Linux starting in 2003. It has been shipping in
Copan (now SGI) products since 2005.

It was ported to FreeBSD in 2008, and thanks to an agreement between SGI
(who acquired Copan's assets in 2010) and Spectra Logic in 2010, CTL is
available under a BSD-style license. The intent behind the agreement was
that Spectra would work to get CTL into the FreeBSD tree.

Some CTL features:

- Disk and processor device emulation.
- Tagged queueing
- SCSI task attribute support (ordered, head of queue, simple tags)
- SCSI implicit command ordering support. (e.g. if a read follows a mode
select, the read will be blocked until the mode select completes.)
- Full task management support (abort, LUN reset, target reset, etc.)
- Support for multiple ports
- Support for multiple simultaneous initiators
- Support for multiple simultaneous backing stores
- Persistent reservation support
- Mode sense/select support
- Error injection support
- High Availability support (1)
- All I/O handled in-kernel, no userland context switch overhead.

(1) HA Support is just an API stub, and needs much more to be fully
functional.

ctl.c: The core of CTL. Command handlers and processing,
character driver, and HA support are here.

ctl.h: Basic function declarations and data structures.

ctl_backend.c,
ctl_backend.h: The basic CTL backend API.

ctl_backend_block.c,
ctl_backend_block.h: The block and file backend. This allows for using
a disk or a file as the backing store for a LUN.
Multiple threads are started to do I/O to the
backing device, primarily because the VFS API
requires that to get any concurrency.

ctl_backend_ramdisk.c: A "fake" ramdisk backend. It only allocates a
small amount of memory to act as a source and sink
for reads and writes from an initiator. Therefore
it cannot be used for any real data, but it can be
used to test for throughput. It can also be used
to test initiators' support for extremely large LUNs.

ctl_cmd_table.c: This is a table with all 256 possible SCSI opcodes,
and command handler functions defined for supported
opcodes.

ctl_debug.h: Debugging support.

ctl_error.c,
ctl_error.h: CTL-specific wrappers around the CAM sense building
functions.

ctl_frontend.c,
ctl_frontend.h: These files define the basic CTL frontend port API.

ctl_frontend_cam_sim.c: This is a CTL frontend port that is also a CAM SIM.
This frontend allows for using CTL without any
target-capable hardware. So any LUNs you create in
CTL are visible in CAM via this port.

ctl_frontend_internal.c,
ctl_frontend_internal.h:
This is a frontend port written for Copan to do
some system-specific tasks that required sending
commands into CTL from inside the kernel. This
isn't entirely relevant to FreeBSD in general,
but can perhaps be repurposed.

ctl_ha.h: This is a stubbed-out High Availability API. Much
more is needed for full HA support. See the
comments in the header and the description of what
is needed in the README.ctl.txt file for more
details.

ctl_io.h: This defines most of the core CTL I/O structures.
union ctl_io is conceptually very similar to CAM's
union ccb.

ctl_ioctl.h: This defines all ioctls available through the CTL
character device, and the data structures needed
for those ioctls.

ctl_mem_pool.c,
ctl_mem_pool.h: Generic memory pool implementation used by the
internal frontend.

ctl_private.h: Private data structres (e.g. CTL softc) and
function prototypes. This also includes the SCSI
vendor and product names used by CTL.

ctl_scsi_all.c,
ctl_scsi_all.h: CTL wrappers around CAM sense printing functions.

ctl_ser_table.c: Command serialization table. This defines what
happens when one type of command is followed by
another type of command.

ctl_util.c,
ctl_util.h: CTL utility functions, primarily designed to be
used from userland. See ctladm for the primary
consumer of these functions. These include CDB
building functions.

scsi_ctl.c: CAM target peripheral driver and CTL frontend port.
This is the path into CTL for commands from
target-capable hardware/SIMs.

README.ctl.txt: CTL code features, roadmap, to-do list.

usr.sbin/Makefile: Add ctladm.

ctladm/Makefile,
ctladm/ctladm.8,
ctladm/ctladm.c,
ctladm/ctladm.h,
ctladm/util.c: ctladm(8) is the CTL management utility.
It fills a role similar to camcontrol(8).
It allow configuring LUNs, issuing commands,
injecting errors and various other control
functions.

usr.bin/Makefile: Add ctlstat.

ctlstat/Makefile
ctlstat/ctlstat.8,
ctlstat/ctlstat.c: ctlstat(8) fills a role similar to iostat(8).
It reports I/O statistics for CTL.

sys/conf/files: Add CTL files.

sys/conf/NOTES: Add device ctl.

sys/cam/scsi_all.h: To conform to more recent specs, the inquiry CDB
length field is now 2 bytes long.

Add several mode page definitions for CTL.

sys/cam/scsi_all.c: Handle the new 2 byte inquiry length.

sys/dev/ciss/ciss.c,
sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c,
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_targ_bh.c,
scsi_target/scsi_cmds.c,
mlxcontrol/interface.c: Update for 2 byte inquiry length field.

scsi_da.h: Add versions of the format and rigid disk pages
that are in a more reasonable format for CTL.

amd64/conf/GENERIC,
i386/conf/GENERIC,
ia64/conf/GENERIC,
sparc64/conf/GENERIC: Add device ctl.

i386/conf/PAE: The CTL frontend SIM at least does not compile
cleanly on PAE.

Sponsored by: Copan Systems, SGI and Spectra Logic
MFC after: 1 month