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David van Moolenbroek
fd4c2b74f3 Add block device tracing facility
The implementation is in libblockdriver, and works transparently for
all block drivers. The new btrace(8) tool can be used to control block
tracing; see ``man btrace'' for details.
2011-11-25 13:47:21 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
b4d909d415 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.
2011-11-23 14:06:37 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
af01bda509 libbdev: initial version
The "bdev" library provides basic primitives for file systems to talk
to block device drivers, hiding the details of the underlying protocol
and interaction model.

This version of libbdev is rather basic. It is planned to support the
following features in the long run:

 - asynchronous requests and replies;
 - recovery support for underlying block drivers;
 - retrying of failed I/O requests.

The commit also changes our block-based file systems (mfs, ext2, isofs)
to make use of libbdev.
2011-11-09 14:43:25 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
2602861f23 Move optset.c into libsys; remove redundant copies 2011-11-07 16:16:08 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
e1d867b686 ahci/libdriver: multithreading support
This patch adds support for executing multiple concurrent requests on
different devices on the same AHCI controller. The libdriver library
has been extended to include a generic multithreading interface, and
the AHCI driver has been extended to make use of this interface.

The original version of this code has been written by Arne Welzel.
2011-11-04 09:37:53 +00:00
Ben Gras
4857d5d554 add -lminixfs with fs support routines
. move cache size heuristic from mfs there
	  so mfs and ext2 can share it
	. add vfs credentials retrieving function, with
	  backwards compatability from previous struct
	  format, to be used by both ext2 and mfs
	. fix for ext2 - STATICINIT was fed no.
	  of bytes instead of no. of elements, overallocating
	  memory by a megabyte or two for the superblock
2011-09-08 16:52:13 +00:00
Ben Gras
f984dbba70 increase system-wide filename limit to 255
. move mfs-specific struct, constants to mfs/, so
	  mfs-specific, on-disk format structs and consts are
	  fully isolated from generic structs and functions
	. removes de and readfs utils
2011-08-17 16:00:01 +00:00
Ben Gras
51ffecc181 import elf-only -lcurses
. abandons mixer, gomoku, talk, talkd, top from base system
	. compile top with clang so no ack-compiled program
	  needs -lcurses any more
2011-07-25 11:08:17 +02:00
Gianluca Guida
4e86b0d53f Move back resolv.h, nameser.h and netdb.h as they conflict with NetBSD headers and libc. 2011-04-08 18:50:58 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
77172e23f7 LWIP - udp_io_hdr.h
lwip server needs to include struct udp_io_hdr but must not include
struct udp-hdr as it conflicts with its internal type. So it is split
into to files now.
2011-04-07 07:43:03 +00:00
Gianluca Guida
f4814901af Move even more includes to common/include.
This patch moves more includes (most of them, to tell the truth) to
common/include directory. This completes the list of includes needed
to compile current trunk with the new libc (but to do that you need
more patches in queue).

This patch also contains some modification (for compilation with new
headers) to the common includes under __NBSD_LIBC, the define used
in mk script to specialize compilation with new includes.
2011-03-03 16:39:02 +00:00
Gianluca Guida
05480c229a Move network includes and lib.h into common/include subdir.
This patch moves further includes (the network part and lib.h) in common/.
It is the last part to get the netbsd libc to compile under minix. Further moves will be needed as we get the netbsd libc to compile minix itself.

Also, this patch add #ifndef's to termios.h, as it create problems with netbsd's namespace.h.
2011-02-14 12:49:18 +00:00
Gianluca Guida
fa59fc6eb4 Move shared headers in common/include
Headers that will be shared between old includes and NetBSD-like includes
are moved into common/include tree. They are still copied in /usr/include
in 'make includes', so compilation and programs aren't be affected.
2011-02-06 22:59:02 +00:00