minix/drivers/floppy/floppy.h

#include <minix/drivers.h>
#include <minix/blockdriver.h>
#include <minix/drvlib.h>
Convert drivers/ and servers/ over to bsdmake -Move libdriver to lib/ -Install all boot image services on filesystem to aid restartability 2010-03-22 22:25:22 +01:00			`#include <minix/drivers.h>`
Split block/character protocols and libdriver This patch separates the character and block driver communication protocols. The old character protocol remains the same, but a new block protocol is introduced. The libdriver library is replaced by two new libraries: libchardriver and libblockdriver. Their exposed API, and drivers that use them, have been updated accordingly. Together, libbdev and libblockdriver now completely abstract away the message format used by the block protocol. As the memory driver is both a character and a block device driver, it now implements its own message loop. The most important semantic change made to the block protocol is that it is no longer possible to return both partial results and an error for a single transfer. This simplifies the interaction between the caller and the driver, as the I/O vector no longer needs to be copied back. Also, drivers are now no longer supposed to decide based on the layout of the I/O vector when a transfer should be cut short. Put simply, transfers are now supposed to either succeed completely, or result in an error. After this patch, the state of the various pieces is as follows: - block protocol: stable - libbdev API: stable for synchronous communication - libblockdriver API: needs slight revision (the drvlib/partition API in particular; the threading API will also change shortly) - character protocol: needs cleanup - libchardriver API: needs cleanup accordingly - driver restarts: largely unsupported until endpoint changes are reintroduced As a side effect, this patch eliminates several bugs, hacks, and gcc -Wall and -W warnings all over the place. It probably introduces a few new ones, too. Update warning: this patch changes the protocol between MFS and disk drivers, so in order to use old/new images, the MFS from the ramdisk must be used to mount all file systems. 2011-11-22 13:27:53 +01:00			`#include <minix/blockdriver.h>`
Convert drivers/ and servers/ over to bsdmake -Move libdriver to lib/ -Install all boot image services on filesystem to aid restartability 2010-03-22 22:25:22 +01:00			`#include <minix/drvlib.h>`
Basic System Event Framework (SEF) with ping and live update. SYSLIB CHANGES: - SEF must be used by every system process and is thereby part of the system library. - The framework provides a receive() interface (sef_receive) for system processes to automatically catch known system even messages and process them. - SEF provides a default behavior for each type of system event, but allows system processes to register callbacks to override the default behavior. - Custom (local to the process) or predefined (provided by SEF) callback implementations can be registered to SEF. - SEF currently includes support for 2 types of system events: 1. SEF Ping. The event occurs every time RS sends a ping to figure out whether a system process is still alive. The default callback implementation provided by SEF is to notify RS back to let it know the process is alive and kicking. 2. SEF Live update. The event occurs every time RS sends a prepare to update message to let a system process know an update is available and to prepare for it. The live update support is very basic for now. SEF only deals with verifying if the prepare state can be supported by the process, dumping the state for debugging purposes, and providing an event-driven programming model to the process to react to state changes check-in when ready to update. - SEF should be extended in the future to integrate support for more types of system events. Ideally, all the cross-cutting concerns should be integrated into SEF to avoid duplicating code and ease extensibility. Examples include: * PM notify messages primarily used at shutdown. * SYSTEM notify messages primarily used for signals. * CLOCK notify messages used for system alarms. * Debug messages. IS could still be in charge of fkey handling but would forward the debug message to the target process (e.g. PM, if the user requested debug information about PM). SEF would then catch the message and do nothing unless the process has registered an appropriate callback to deal with the event. This simplifies the programming model to print debug information, avoids duplicating code, and reduces the effort to print debug information. SYSTEM PROCESSES CHANGES: - Every system process registers SEF callbacks it needs to override the default system behavior and calls sef_startup() right after being started. - sef_startup() does almost nothing now, but will be extended in the future to support callbacks of its own to let RS control and synchronize with every system process at initialization time. - Every system process calls sef_receive() now rather than receive() directly, to let SEF handle predefined system events. RS CHANGES: - RS supports a basic single-component live update protocol now, as follows: * When an update command is issued (via "service update "), RS notifies the target system process to prepare for a specific update state. If the process doesn't respond back in time, the update is aborted. * When the process responds back, RS kills it and marks it for refreshing. * The process is then automatically restarted as for a buggy process and can start running again. * Live update is currently prototyped as a controlled failure. 2009-12-21 15:12:21 +01:00