DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2004-05
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Device layering work patch #2
Here is the next rev of the device layering patch.
This patch is of 'beta' quality, I expect to commit it (with further
work) in a bit less then a week. I would appreciate testing so I can
be confident that I'm not going to blow up the system when I commit
this stage, but nobody should install this patch on a production
machine. Please report any device related console warnings *after* booting
is complete.
fetch http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/dev02.patch
Changes from the last patch:
* Removed all dev_port_*() wrapper functions. These were used so old
style device switch routines could forward requests without
manually constructing a message wrapper.
The wrapper code was used in the DISK (partition management) layer,
the /dev/console layer, and the conslidated frame buffer device
layer. All three layers now either use LWKT message ports directly,
or use the dev_d*() calls instead.
* Total revamp of the reference counting scheme. All device structure
creation calls now creates 'adhoc' device entries, meaning that no matter
how many times you make the call only one reference count will be
associated with the structure. This way devices created indirectly
by users calling open() (via udev2dev()), via make_dev(), make_sub_dev(),
and other device creation routines, can still be trivially closed at
detach time.
Those subsystems in the kernel that need to store dev_t's long term,
such as the VNODE subsystem (v_rdev), will obtain additional references
on the dev_t using reference_dev(). Additional references do not
prevent the device from being destroyed, but they do prevent the
structure from being freed and reused too early.
cdevs_remove() now calls destroy_dev() on all associated devices. This
basically removes the ad-hoc reference and means that we do not have
to track make_dev() calls in the device code or other places.
* Rewrote the /dev/console interface to be a pure new-style LWKT message
port based device. This makes the forwarding of requests much easier
to deal with.
* Additional cleanups of the DISK (partition management) subsystem.
* Added required cdevsw_add() calls to nearly all devices in the source
tree, and cdevsw_remove() calls to many of the devices in the source
tree.
STILL TODO: actually freeing a dev_t structure that is being detached.
-Matt
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