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.Dd March 5, 2017
.Dt DISK 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm disk ,
.Nm disk_init ,
.Nm disk_attach ,
.Nm disk_begindetach ,
.Nm disk_detach ,
.Nm disk_destroy ,
.Nm disk_wait ,
.Nm disk_busy ,
.Nm disk_unbusy ,
.Nm disk_isbusy ,
.Nm disk_find ,
.Nm disk_set_info
.Nd generic disk framework
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/disklabel.h
.In sys/disk.h
.Ft void
.Fn disk_init "struct disk *" "const char *name" "const struct dkdriver *driver"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_attach "struct disk *"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_begindetach "struct disk *" "int (*lastclose)(device_t)" "device_t self" "int flags"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_detach "struct disk *"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_destroy "struct disk *"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_wait "struct disk *"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_busy "struct disk *"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_unbusy "struct disk *" "long bcount" "int read"
.Ft bool
.Fn disk_isbusy "struct disk *"
.Ft struct disk *
.Fn disk_find "const char *"
.Ft void
.Fn disk_set_info "device_t" "struct disk *" "const char *type"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nx
generic disk framework is designed to provide flexible,
scalable, and consistent handling of disk state and metrics information.
The fundamental component of this framework is the
.Nm disk
structure, which is defined as follows:
.Bd -literal
struct disk {
	TAILQ_ENTRY(disk) dk_link;	/* link in global disklist */
	const char	*dk_name;	/* disk name */
	prop_dictionary_t dk_info;	/* reference to disk-info dictionary */
	int		dk_bopenmask;	/* block devices open */
	int		dk_copenmask;	/* character devices open */
	int		dk_openmask;	/* composite (bopen|copen) */
	int		dk_state;	/* label state   ### */
	int		dk_blkshift;	/* shift to convert DEV_BSIZE to blks */
	int		dk_byteshift;	/* shift to convert bytes to blks */

	/*
	 * Metrics data; note that some metrics may have no meaning
	 * on certain types of disks.
	 */
	struct io_stats	*dk_stats;

	const struct dkdriver *dk_driver;	/* pointer to driver */

	/*
	 * Information required to be the parent of a disk wedge.
	 */
	kmutex_t	dk_rawlock;	/* lock on these fields */
	u_int		dk_rawopens;	/* # of opens of rawvp */
	struct vnode	*dk_rawvp;	/* vnode for the RAW_PART bdev */

	kmutex_t	dk_openlock;	/* lock on these and openmask */
	u_int		dk_nwedges;	/* # of configured wedges */
					/* all wedges on this disk */
	LIST_HEAD(, dkwedge_softc) dk_wedges;

	/*
	 * Disk label information.  Storage for the in-core disk label
	 * must be dynamically allocated, otherwise the size of this
	 * structure becomes machine-dependent.
	 */
	daddr_t		dk_labelsector;		/* sector containing label */
	struct disklabel *dk_label;	/* label */
	struct cpu_disklabel *dk_cpulabel;
};
.Ed
.Pp
The system maintains a global linked-list of all disks attached to the
system.
This list, called
.Nm disklist ,
may grow or shrink over time as disks are dynamically added and removed
from the system.
Drivers which currently make use of the detachment
capability of the framework are the
.Nm ccd ,
.Nm dm ,
and
.Nm vnd
pseudo-device drivers.
.Pp
The following is a brief description of each function in the framework:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fn disk_set_info"
.It Fn disk_init
Initialize the disk structure.
.It Fn disk_attach
Attach a disk; allocate storage for the disklabel, set the
.Dq attached time
timestamp, insert the disk into the disklist, and increment the
system disk count.
.It Fn disk_begindetach
Check whether the disk is open, and if not, return 0.
If the disk is open, and
.Dv DETACH_FORCE
is not set in
.Fa flags ,
return
.Dv EBUSY .
Otherwise, call the provided
.Fa lastclose
routine
.Po
if not
.Dv NULL
.Pc
and return its exit code.
.It Fn disk_detach
Detach a disk; free storage for the disklabel, remove the disk
from the disklist, and decrement the system disk count.
If the count drops below zero, panic.
.It Fn disk_destroy
Release resources used by the disk structure when it is no longer
required.
.It Fn disk_wait
Disk timings are measured by counting the number of queued
requests (wait counter) and requests issued to the hardware (busy counter)
and keeping timestamp when the counters change.
The time interval between
two changes of a counter is accumulated into a total and also multiplied
by the counter value and the accumulated into a sum.
Both values can be
used to determine how much time is spent in the driver queue or in-flight
to the hardware as well as the average number of requests in either state.
.Fn disk_wait
increment the disk's wait counter and handles the accumulation.
.It Fn disk_busy
Decrements the disk's wait counter and increments the disk's
.Dq busy counter ,
and handles either accumulation.
If the wait counter is still zero, it
is assumed that the driver hasn't been updated to call
.Fn disk_wait ,
then only the values from the busy counter are available.
.It Fn disk_unbusy
Decrement the disk's busy counter and handles the accumulation.
The third argument
.Ar read
specifies the direction of I/O;
if non-zero it means reading from the disk,
otherwise it means writing to the disk.
.It Fn disk_isbusy
Returns
.Ar true
if disk is marked as busy and false if it is not.
.It Fn disk_find
Return a pointer to the disk structure corresponding to the name provided,
or
.Dv NULL
if the disk does not exist.
.It Fn disk_set_info
Setup disk-info dictionary and other dependent values of the disk structure,
the driver must have initialized the dk_geom member of
.Fa struct disk
with suitable values.
If
.Fa type
is not
.Dv NULL ,
it will be added to the dictionary.
.El
.Pp
The functions typically called by device drivers are
.Fn disk_init
.Fn disk_attach ,
.Fn disk_begindetach ,
.Fn disk_detach ,
.Fn disk_destroy ,
.Fn disk_wait ,
.Fn disk_busy ,
.Fn disk_unbusy ,
and
.Fn disk_set_info .
The function
.Fn disk_find
is provided as a utility function.
.Sh DISK IOCTLS
The following ioctls should be implemented by disk drivers:
.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
.It Dv DIOCGDINFO "struct disklabel"
Get disklabel.
.It Dv DIOCSDINFO "struct disklabel"
Set in-memory disklabel.
.It Dv DIOCWDINFO "struct disklabel"
Set in-memory disklabel and write on-disk disklabel.
.It Dv DIOCGPART "struct partinfo"
Get partition information.
This is used internally.
.It Dv DIOCRFORMAT "struct format_op"
Read format.
.It Dv DIOCWFORMAT "struct format_op"
Write format.
.It Dv DIOCSSTEP "int"
Set step rate.
.It Dv DIOCSRETRIES "int"
Set number of retries.
.It Dv DIOCKLABEL "int"
Specify whether to keep or drop the in-memory disklabel
when the device is closed.
.It Dv DIOCWLABEL "int"
Enable or disable writing to the part of the disk that contains the label.
.It Dv DIOCSBAD "struct dkbad"
Set kernel dkbad.
.It Dv DIOCEJECT "int"
Eject removable disk.
.It Dv DIOCLOCK "int"
Lock or unlock disk pack.
For devices with removable media, locking is intended to prevent
the operator from removing the media.
.It Dv DIOCGDEFLABEL "struct disklabel"
Get default label.
.It Dv DIOCCLRLABEL
Clear disk label.
.It Dv DIOCGCACHE "int"
Get status of disk read and write caches.
The result is a bitmask containing the following values:
.Bl -tag -width DKCACHE_RCHANGE
.It Dv DKCACHE_READ
Read cache enabled.
.It Dv DKCACHE_WRITE
Write(back) cache enabled.
.It Dv DKCACHE_RCHANGE
Read cache enable is changeable.
.It Dv DKCACHE_WCHANGE
Write cache enable is changeable.
.It Dv DKCACHE_SAVE
Cache parameters may be saved, so that they persist across reboots
or device detach/attach cycles.
.El
.It Dv DIOCSCACHE "int"
Set status of disk read and write caches.
The input is a bitmask in the same format as used for
.Dv DIOCGCACHE .
.It Dv DIOCCACHESYNC "int"
Synchronise the disk cache.
This causes information in the disk's write cache (if any)
to be flushed to stable storage.
The argument specifies whether or not to force a flush even if
the kernel believes that there is no outstanding data.
.It Dv DIOCBSLIST "struct disk_badsecinfo"
Get bad sector list.
.It Dv DIOCBSFLUSH
Flush bad sector list.
.It Dv DIOCAWEDGE "struct dkwedge_info"
Add wedge.
.It Dv DIOCGWEDGEINFO "struct dkwedge_info"
Get wedge information.
.It Dv DIOCDWEDGE "struct dkwedge_info"
Delete wedge.
.It Dv DIOCLWEDGES "struct dkwedge_list"
List wedges.
.It Dv DIOCGSTRATEGY "struct disk_strategy"
Get disk buffer queue strategy.
.It Dv DIOCSSTRATEGY "struct disk_strategy"
Set disk buffer queue strategy.
.It Dv DIOCGDISKINFO "struct plistref"
Get disk-info dictionary.
.It Dv DIOCGMEDIASIZE "off_t"
Get disk size in bytes.
.It Dv DIOCGSECTORSIZE "u_int"
Get sector size in bytes.
.El
.Sh USING THE FRAMEWORK
This section includes a description on basic use of the framework
and example usage of its functions.
Actual implementation of a device driver which uses the framework
may vary.
.Pp
Each device in the system uses a
.Dq softc
structure which contains autoconfiguration and state information for that
device.
In the case of disks, the softc should also contain one instance
of the disk structure, e.g.:
.Bd -literal
struct foo_softc {
	device_t	sc_dev;		/* generic device information */
	struct	disk	sc_dk;		/* generic disk information */
	[ . . . more . . . ]
};
.Ed
.Pp
In order for the system to gather metrics data about a disk, the disk must
be registered with the system.
The
.Fn disk_attach
routine performs all of the functions currently required to register a disk
with the system including allocation of disklabel storage space,
recording of the time since boot that the disk was attached, and insertion
into the disklist.
Note that since this function allocates storage space for the disklabel,
it must be called before the disklabel is read from the media or used in
any other way.
Before
.Fn disk_attach
is called, a portions of the disk structure must be initialized with
data specific to that disk.
For example, in the
.Dq foo
disk driver, the following would be performed in the autoconfiguration
.Dq attach
routine:
.Bd -literal
void
fooattach(device_t parent, device_t self, void *aux)
{
	struct foo_softc *sc = device_private(self);
	[ . . . ]

	/* Initialize and attach the disk structure. */
	disk_init(&sc->sc_dk, device_xname(self), &foodkdriver);
	disk_attach(&sc->sc_dk);

	/* Read geometry and fill in pertinent parts of disklabel. */
	/* Initialize geometry values of the disk structure */
	[ . . . ]
	disk_set_info(&self>, &sc->sc_dk, type);
}
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Nm foodkdriver
above is the disk's
.Dq driver
switch.
This switch currently includes pointers to several driver entry points,
where only the
.Nm d_strategy
entry point is used by the disk framework.
This switch needs to have global scope and should be initialized as follows:
.Bd -literal
void    (foostrategy)(struct buf *);
void    (foominphys)(struct buf *);
int     (fooopen)(dev_t, int, int, struct lwp *);
int     (fooclose)(dev_t, int, int, struct lwp *);
int     (foo_discard)(device_t, off_t, off_t);
int     (foo_diskstart)(device_t, struct buf *);
void    (foo_iosize)(device_t, int *);
int     (foo_dumpblocks)(device_t, void *, daddr_t, int);
int     (foo_lastclose)(device_t);
int     (foo_firstopen)(device_t, dev_t, int, int);
int     (foo_label)(device_t, struct disklabel *);

const struct dkdriver foodkdriver = {
	.d_open = fooopen,
	.d_close = fooclose,
	.d_strategy = foostrategy,
	.d_minphys = foominphys,
	.d_discard = foo_discard,
	.d_diskstart = foo_diskstart,	/* optional */
	.d_dumpblocks = foo_dumpblocks,	/* optional */
	.d_iosize = foo_iosize,		/* optional */
	.d_firstopen = foo_firstopen,	/* optional */
	.d_lastclose = foo_lastclose,	/* optional */
	.d_label = foo_label,		/* optional */
};
.Ed
.Pp
Once the disk is attached, metrics may be gathered on that disk.
In order to gather metrics data, the driver must tell the framework when
the disk queues, starts and stops operations.
This functionality is provided by the
.Fn disk_wait ,
.Fn disk_busy
and
.Fn disk_unbusy
routines.
Because
.Nm struct disk
is part of device driver private data it needs to be guarded.
Mutual exclusion must be done by driver
.Fn disk_wait ,
.Fn disk_busy
and
.Fn disk_unbusy
are not thread safe.
The
.Fn disk_busy
routine should be called immediately before a command to the disk is
sent, e.g.:
.Bd -literal
void
foostrategy(struct buf *bp)
{
	[ . . . ]

	mutex_enter(&sc->sc_dk_mtx);
	disk_wait(&sc->sc_dk);

	/* Put buffer onto drive's transfer queue */

	mutex_exit(&sc->sc_dk_mtx);

	foostart(sc);
}

void
foostart(struct foo_softc *sc)
{
	[ . . . ]

	/* Get buffer from drive's transfer queue. */
	[ . . . ]

	/* Build command to send to drive. */
	[ . . . ]

	/* Tell the disk framework we're going busy. */
	mutex_enter(&sc->sc_dk_mtx);
	disk_busy(&sc->sc_dk);
	mutex_exit(&sc->sc_dk_mtx);

	/* Send command to the drive. */
	[ . . . ]
}
.Ed
.Pp
The routine
.Fn disk_unbusy
performs some consistency checks, such as ensuring that the calls to
.Fn disk_busy
and
.Fn disk_unbusy
are balanced.
It also performs the final steps of the metrics calcuation.
A byte count is added to the disk's running total, and if greater than
zero, the number of transfers the disk has performed is incremented.
The third argument
.Ar read
specifies the direction of I/O;
if non-zero it means reading from the disk,
otherwise it means writing to the disk.
.Bd -literal
void
foodone(xfer)
	struct foo_xfer *xfer;
{
	struct foo_softc = (struct foo_softc *)xfer->xf_softc;
	struct buf *bp = xfer->xf_buf;
	long nbytes;
	[ . . . ]

	/*
	 * Get number of bytes transferred.  If there is no buf
	 * associated with the xfer, we are being called at the
	 * end of a non-I/O command.
	 */
	if (bp == NULL)
		nbytes = 0;
	else
		nbytes = bp->b_bcount - bp->b_resid;

	[ . . . ]

	mutex_enter(&sc->sc_dk_mtx);
	/* Notify the disk framework that we've completed the transfer. */
	disk_unbusy(&sc->sc_dk, nbytes,
	    bp != NULL ? bp->b_flags & B_READ : 0);
	mutex_exit(&sc->sc_dk_mtx);

	[ . . . ]
}
.Ed
.Pp
.Fn disk_isbusy
is used to get status of disk device it returns true if device is
currently busy and false if it is not.
Like
.Fn disk_wait ,
.Fn disk_busy
and
.Fn disk_unbusy
it requires explicit locking from user side.
.Sh CODE REFERENCES
The disk framework itself is implemented within the file
.Pa sys/kern/subr_disk.c .
Data structures and function prototypes for the framework are located in
.Pa sys/sys/disk.h .
.Pp
The
.Nx
machine-independent SCSI disk and CD-ROM drivers use the
disk framework.
They are located in
.Pa sys/scsi/sd.c
and
.Pa sys/scsi/cd.c .
.Pp
The
.Nx
.Nm ccd ,
.Nm dm ,
and
.Nm vnd
drivers use the detachment capability of the framework.
They are located in
.Pa sys/dev/ccd.c ,
.Pa sys/dev/vnd.c ,
and
.Pa sys/dev/dm/device-mapper.c .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ccd 4 ,
.Xr dm 4 ,
.Xr vnd 4 ,
.Xr dksubr 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nx
generic disk framework appeared in
.Nx 1.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nx
generic disk framework was architected and implemented by
.An Jason R. Thorpe
.Aq Mt thorpej@NetBSD.org .