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Tomas Hruby
72b7abd1a1 VFS - no CANCEL for async non-blocking operations
- if an operation (R, W, IOCTL) is non blocking, a flag is set
  and sent to the device.

- nothing changes for sync devices

- asyn devices should reply asap if an operation is non-blocking.
  We must trust the devices, but we had to trust them anyway to
  reply to CANCEL correctly

- we safe sending CANCEL commands to asyn devices. This greatly
  simplifies the protocol. Asynchronous devices can always reply
  when a reply is ready and do not need to deal with other
  situations

- currently, none of our drivers use the flags since they drive
  virtual devices which do not block
2012-03-02 15:44:48 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
4498750810 libchardriver: fix open reply for async devices 2012-02-09 14:17:54 +00:00
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