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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Veerman
0a61519eea Provide core dumping support for AVFS 2011-12-08 10:47:11 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
db087efac4 VFS/FS: REQ_NEW_DRIVER now provides a label 2011-11-30 19:05:26 +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
Thomas Veerman
90cde23c19 Cleanup more resources upon exit 2011-09-16 10:16:57 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
200b9d7339 Unmap drivers upon exit 2011-09-16 10:16:00 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
203937456e Fix off-by-one errors and increase PATH_MAX to 1024
In some places it was assumed that PATH_MAX does not include a
terminating null character.

Increases PATH_MAX to 1024 to get in sync with NetBSD. Required some
rewriting in AVFS to keep memory usage low (the stack in use by a thread
is very small).
2011-09-12 09:00:24 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
7db039347a Make AVFS resilient against failing back calls 2011-09-06 10:38:16 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
30be017762 Store and use max concurrent requests 2011-08-26 12:47:43 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
ae2159c371 Fix locking issues with back calls from FSes 2011-08-19 14:17:35 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
a6bd3f4a22 Merge AVFS and APFS 2011-08-17 13:40:36 +00:00