Remove priority enforcement from xpt_ation(). It is not good and even not
safe in some cases to reduce CCB priority after it was scheduled with high
priority. This fixes reproducible deadlock when

Remove priority enforcement from xpt_ation(). It is not good and even not
safe in some cases to reduce CCB priority after it was scheduled with high
priority. This fixes reproducible deadlock when command sent through the
pass interface while ATA XPT recovers from command timeout.

Instead of that enforce priority at passioctl(). libcam provides no obvious
interface to specify CCB priority and so much (all?) code specifies zero
(highest) priority. This change limits pass CCBs priority to NORMAL run
level, allowing XPT to complete bus and device recovery after reset before
running any payload.

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Protect xpt_getattr() calls with the SIM lock and assert that.

Submitted by: ken@ (earlier version)

Remove 'periph == NULL' check from bunch of periph drivers.
This condition can never be true as functions are called from single place
and the checks just pollute the code and confuse Clang Static An

Remove 'periph == NULL' check from bunch of periph drivers.
This condition can never be true as functions are called from single place
and the checks just pollute the code and confuse Clang Static Analyzer.

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Fix several reference counting and object lifetime issues between
the pass(4) and enc(4) drivers and devfs.

The pass(4) driver uses the destroy_dev_sched() routine to
schedule its device node for de

Fix several reference counting and object lifetime issues between
the pass(4) and enc(4) drivers and devfs.

The pass(4) driver uses the destroy_dev_sched() routine to
schedule its device node for destruction in a separate thread
context. It does this because the passcleanup() routine can get
called indirectly from the passclose() routine, and that would
cause a deadlock if the close routine tried to destroy its own
device node.

In any case, once a particular passthrough driver number, e.g.
pass3, is destroyed, CAM considers that unit number (3 in this
case) available for reuse.

The problem is that devfs may not be done cleaning up the previous
instance of pass3, and will panic if isn't done cleaning up the
previous instance.

The solution is to get a callback from devfs when the device node
is removed, and make sure we hold a reference to the peripheral
until that happens.

Testing exposed some other cases where we have reference counting
issues, and those were also fixed in the pass(4) driver.

cam_periph.c: In camperiphfree(), reorder some of the operations.

The peripheral destructor needs to be called before
the peripheral is removed from the peripheral is
removed from the list. This is because once we
remove the peripheral from the list, and drop the
topology lock, the peripheral number may be reused.
But if the destructor hasn't been called yet, there
may still be resources hanging around (like devfs
nodes) that haven't been fully cleaned up.

cam_xpt.c: Add an argument to xpt_remove_periph() to indicate
whether the topology lock is already held.

scsi_enc.c: Acquire an extra reference to the peripheral during
registration, and release it once we get a callback
from devfs indicating that the device node is gone.

Call destroy_dev_sched_cb() in enc_oninvalidate()
instead of calling destroy_dev() in the cleanup
routine.

scsi_pass.c: Add reference counting to handle peripheral and
devfs object lifetime issues.

Add a reference to the peripheral and the devfs
node in the peripheral registration.

Don't attempt to add a physical path alias if the
peripheral has been marked invalid.

Release the devfs reference once the initial
physical path alias taskqueue run has completed.

Schedule devfs node destruction in the
passoninvalidate(), and release our peripheral
reference in a new routine, passdevgonecb() once
the devfs node is gone. This allows the peripheral
to fully go away, and the peripheral destructor,
passcleanup(), will get called.

MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic

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One more major cam_periph_error() rewrite to improve error handling and
reporting. It includes:
- removing of error messages controlled by bootverbose, replacing them
with more universal and informa

One more major cam_periph_error() rewrite to improve error handling and
reporting. It includes:
- removing of error messages controlled by bootverbose, replacing them
with more universal and informative debugging on CAM_DEBUG_INFO level,
that is now built into the kernel by default;
- more close following to the arguments submitted by caller, such as
SF_PRINT_ALWAYS, SF_QUIET_IR and SF_NO_PRINT; consumer knows better which
errors are usual/expected at this point and which are really informative;
- adding two new flags SF_NO_RECOVERY and SF_NO_RETRY to allow caller
specify how much assistance it needs at this point; previously consumers
controlled that by not calling cam_periph_error() at all, but that made
behavior inconsistent and debugging complicated;
- tuning debug messages and taken actions order to make debugging output
more readable and cause-effect relationships visible;
- making camperiphdone() (common device recovery completion handler) to
also use cam_periph_error() in most cases, instead of own dumb code;
- removing manual sense fetching code from cam_periph_error(); I was told
by number of people that it is SIM obligation to fetch sense data, so this
code is useless and only significantly complicates recovery logic;
- making ada, da and pass driver to use cam_periph_error() with new limited
recovery options to handle error recovery and debugging in common way;
as one of results, CAM_REQUEUE_REQ and other retrying statuses are now
working fine with pass driver, that caused many problems before.
- reverting r186891 by raj@ to avoid burning few seconds in tight DELAY()
loops on device probe, while device simply loads media; I think that problem
may already be fixed in other way, and even if it is not, solution must be
different.

Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks

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Work around a race condition in devfs by changing the way closes
are handled in most CAM peripheral drivers that are not handled by
GEOM's disk class.

The usual character driver open and close seman

Work around a race condition in devfs by changing the way closes
are handled in most CAM peripheral drivers that are not handled by
GEOM's disk class.

The usual character driver open and close semantics are that the
driver gets N open calls, but only one close, when the last caller
closes the device.

CAM peripheral drivers expect that behavior to be honored to the
letter, and the CAM peripheral driver code (specifically
cam_periph_release_locked_busses()) panics if it is done incorrectly.

Since devfs has to drop its locks while it calls a driver's close
routine, and it does not have a way to delay or prevent open calls
while it is calling the close routine, there is a race.

The sequence of events, simplified a bit, is:

- devfs acquires a lock
- devfs checks the reference count, and if it is 1, continues to close.
- devfs releases the lock

- 2nd process open call on the device happens here

- devfs calls the driver's close routine

- devfs acquires a lock
- devfs decrements the reference count
- devfs releases the lock

- 2nd process close call on the device happens here

At the second close, we get a panic in
cam_periph_release_locked_busses(), complaining that peripheral
has been released when the reference count is already 0. This is
because we have gotten two closes in a row, which should not
happen.

The fix is to add the D_TRACKCLOSE flag to the driver's cdevsw, so
that we get a close() call for each open(). That does happen
reliably, so we can make sure that our reference counts are
correct.

Note that the sa(4) and pt(4) drivers only allow one context
through the open routine. So these drivers aren't exposed to the
same race condition.

scsi_ch.c,
scsi_enc.c,
scsi_enc_internal.h,
scsi_pass.c,
scsi_sg.c:
For these drivers, change the open() routine to
increment the reference count for every open, and
just decrement the reference count in the close.

Call cam_periph_release_locked() in some scenarios
to avoid additional lock and unlock calls.

scsi_pt.c: Call cam_periph_release_locked() in some scenarios
to avoid additional lock and unlock calls.

MFC after: 3 days

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Plumb device physical path reporting from CAM devices, through GEOM and
DEVFS, and make it accessible via the diskinfo utility.

Extend GEOM's generic attribute query mechanism into generic disk cons

Plumb device physical path reporting from CAM devices, through GEOM and
DEVFS, and make it accessible via the diskinfo utility.

Extend GEOM's generic attribute query mechanism into generic disk consumers.
sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
sys/geom/geom_disk.h:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
- Allow disk providers to implement a new method which can override
the default BIO_GETATTR response, d_getattr(struct bio *). This
function returns -1 if not handled, otherwise it returns 0 or an
errno to be passed to g_io_deliver().

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
sys/cam/ata/ata_da.c:
- Don't copy the serial number to dp->d_ident anymore, as the CAM XPT
is now responsible for returning this information via
d_getattr()->(a)dagetattr()->xpt_getatr().

sys/geom/geom_dev.c:
- Implement a new ioctl, DIOCGPHYSPATH, which returns the GEOM
attribute "GEOM::physpath", if possible. If the attribute request
returns a zero-length string, ENOENT is returned.

usr.sbin/diskinfo/diskinfo.c:
- If the DIOCGPHYSPATH ioctl is successful, report physical path
data when diskinfo is executed with the '-v' option.

Submitted by: will
Reviewed by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation

Add generic attribute change notification support to GEOM.

sys/sys/geom/geom.h:
Add a new attrchanged method field to both g_class
and g_geom.

sys/sys/geom/geom.h:
sys/geom/geom_event.c:
- Provide the g_attr_changed() function that providers
can use to advertise attribute changes.
- Perform delivery of attribute change notifications
from a thread context via the standard GEOM event
mechanism.

sys/geom/geom_subr.c:
Inherit the attrchanged method from class to geom (class instance).

sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
Provide disk_attr_changed() to provide g_attr_changed() access
to consumers of the disk API.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
sys/geom/geom_dev.c:
sys/geom/geom_disk.c:
Use attribute changed events to track updates to physical path
information.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c:
Add AC_ADVINFO_CHANGED to the registered asynchronous CAM
events for this driver. When this event occurs, and
the updated buffer type references our physical path
attribute, emit a GEOM attribute changed event via the
disk_attr_changed() API.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_pass.c:
Add AC_ADVINFO_CHANGED to the registered asynchronous CAM
events for this driver. When this event occurs, update
the physical patch devfs alias for this pass instance.

Submitted by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation

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Lay groundwork in CAM for recording and reporting physical path and
other device attributes stored in the CAM Existing Device Table (EDT).
This includes some infrastructure requried by the enclosure

Lay groundwork in CAM for recording and reporting physical path and
other device attributes stored in the CAM Existing Device Table (EDT).
This includes some infrastructure requried by the enclosure services
driver to export physical path information.

Make the CAM device advanced info interface accept store requests.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
- Replace scsi_get_sas_addr() with a scsi_get_devid() which takes
a callback that decides whether to accept a particular descriptor.
Provide callbacks for NAA IEEE Registered addresses and for SAS
addresses, replacing the old function. This is needed because
the old function doesn't work for an enclosure address for a SAS
device, which is not flagged as a SAS address, but is NAA IEEE
Registered. It may be worthwhile merging this interface with the
devid match interface.
- Add a few more defines for some device ID fields.

sbin/camcontrol/camcontrol.c:
- Update for the CCB_DEV_ADVINFO interface change.

cam/cam_xpt_internal.h:
- Add the new fields for the physical path string to the CAM EDT.
cam/cam_ccb.h:
- Rename CCB_GDEV_ADVINFO to simply CCB_DEV_ADVINFO, and the ccb
structure to ccb_dev_advinfo.
- Add a flag that changes this CCB's action to store, rather than
the default, retrieve.
- Add a new buffer type, CDAI_TYPE_PHYS_PATH, for the new CAM EDT
physpath field.
- Remove the never-implemented transport & proto flags.
cam/cam_xpt.c:
cam/cam_xpt.h:
- Add xpt_getattr(), which provides a wrapper for fetching a device's
attribute using the GEOM strings as key. This method currently
supports "GEOM::ident" and "GEOM::physpath".

Submitted by: will
Reviewed by : gibbs

Extend the XPT_DEV_MATCH api to allow a device search by device ID.
As far as the API is concerned, device ID is a binary blob to be
interpreted by the transport layer. The SCSI implementation assumes
it is an array of VPD device ID descriptors.

sys/cam/cam_ccb.h:
Create a new structure, device_id_match_pattern, and
update the XPT_DEV_MATCH datastructures and flags so
that this pattern type can be used.

sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
- A single pattern matching on both inquiry data and device
ID is invalid. Report any violators.
- Pass device ID match requests through to the new routine
scsi_devid_match(). The direct call of a SCSI routine is
a layering violation, but no worse than the one a few
lines up that checks inquiry data. Defer cleaning this
up until our future, larger, rototilling of CAM.
- Zero out cam_ed and cam_et nodes on allocation. Prior to
this change, device_id_len and device_id were not inialized,
preventing proper detection of the presence of this
information.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
Add the scsi_match_devid() routine.

Add a helper function for extracting peripherial driver names

sys/cam/cam_periph.c:
sys/cam/cam_periph.h:
Add the cam_periph_list() method which fills an sbuf
with a comma delimited list of the peripheral instances
associated with a given CAM path.

Add a helper functions for SCSI commands used by the SES driver.

sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.c:
sys/cam/scsi/scsi_all.h:
Add structure definitions and csio filling functions for
the receive diagnostic results and send diagnostic commands.

Misc CAM XPT cleanups.

sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
Broadcast AC_FOUND_DEVICE and AC_PATH_REGISTERED
events at the time async event handlers are attached
even when registering just for events on a partitular
SIM. Previously, you had to register for these
events on all SIMs in the system in order to get
the initial broadcast even though subsequent device
and path arrivals would be delivered.

sys/cam/cam_xpt.c:
Remove SIM mutex held asserts from path accessors.
CAM paths are reference counted and it is this
reference count, not the sim mutex, that garantees
they are stable.

Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation

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Make CAM report devices with ATA/SATA transport to devstat(9) as IDE.

Fix a few issues related to the XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCB.

camcontrol.c: In buildbusdevlist(), don't attempt to get call
getdevid() for an unconfigured device, even when the
verbose flag is set. The

Fix a few issues related to the XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCB.

camcontrol.c: In buildbusdevlist(), don't attempt to get call
getdevid() for an unconfigured device, even when the
verbose flag is set. The cam_open_btl() call will almost
certainly fail.

Probe for the buffer size when issuing the XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO
CCB. Probing for the buffer size first helps us avoid
allocating the maximum buffer size when it really may not
be necessary. This also helps avoid errors from
cam_periph_mapmem() if we attempt to map more than MAXPHYS.

cam_periph.c: In cam_periph_mapmem(), if the XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCB
shows a bufsiz of 0, we don't have anything to map,
so just return.

Also, set the maximum mapping size to MAXPHYS
instead of DFLTPHYS for XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCBs,
since they don't actually go down to the hardware.

scsi_pass.c: Don't bother mapping the buffer in XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO
CCBs if bufsiz is 0.

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Add Serial Management Protocol (SMP) passthrough support to CAM.

This includes support in the kernel, camcontrol(8), libcam and the mps(4)
driver for SMP passthrough.

The CAM SCSI probe code has be

Add Serial Management Protocol (SMP) passthrough support to CAM.

This includes support in the kernel, camcontrol(8), libcam and the mps(4)
driver for SMP passthrough.

The CAM SCSI probe code has been modified to fetch Inquiry VPD page 0x00
to determine supported pages, and will now fetch page 0x83 in addition to
page 0x80 if supported.

Add two new CAM CCBs, XPT_SMP_IO, and XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO. The SMP CCB is
intended for SMP requests and responses. The ADVINFO is currently used to
fetch cached VPD page 0x83 data from the transport layer, but is intended
to be extensible to fetch other types of device-specific data.

SMP-only devices are not currently represented in the CAM topology, and so
the current semantics are that the SIM will route SMP CCBs to either the
addressed device, if it contains an SMP target, or its parent, if it
contains an SMP target. (This is noted in cam_ccb.h, since it will change
later once we have the ability to have SMP-only devices in CAM's topology.)

smp_all.c,
smp_all.h: New helper routines for SMP. This includes
SMP request building routines, response parsing
routines, error decoding routines, and structure
definitions for a number of SMP commands.

libcam/Makefile: Add smp_all.c to libcam, so that SMP functionality
is available to userland applications.

camcontrol.8,
camcontrol.c: Add smp passthrough support to camcontrol. Several
new subcommands are now available:

'smpcmd' functions much like 'cmd', except that it
allows the user to send generic SMP commands.

'smprg' sends the SMP report general command, and
displays the decoded output. It will automatically
fetch extended output if it is available.

'smppc' sends the SMP phy control command, with any
number of potential options. Among other things,
this allows the user to reset a phy on a SAS
expander, or disable a phy on an expander.

'smpmaninfo' sends the SMP report manufacturer
information and displays the decoded output.

'smpphylist' displays a list of phys on an
expander, and the CAM devices attached to those
phys, if any.

cam.h,
cam.c: Add a status value for SMP errors
(CAM_SMP_STATUS_ERROR).

Add a missing description for CAM_SCSI_IT_NEXUS_LOST.

Add support for SMP commands to cam_error_string().

cam_ccb.h: Rename the CAM_DIR_RESV flag to CAM_DIR_BOTH. SMP
commands are by nature bi-directional, and we may
need to support bi-directional SCSI commands later.

Add the XPT_SMP_IO CCB. Since SMP commands are
bi-directional, there are pointers for both the
request and response.

Add a fill routine for SMP CCBs.

Add the XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCB. This is currently
used to fetch cached page 0x83 data from the
transport later, but is extensible to fetch many
other types of data.

cam_periph.c: Add support in cam_periph_mapmem() for XPT_SMP_IO
and XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCBs.

cam_xpt.c: Add support for executing XPT_SMP_IO CCBs.

cam_xpt_internal.h: Add fields for VPD pages 0x00 and 0x83 in struct
cam_ed.

scsi_all.c: Add scsi_get_sas_addr(), a function that parses
VPD page 0x83 data and pulls out a SAS address.

scsi_all.h: Add VPD page 0x00 and 0x83 structures, and a
prototype for scsi_get_sas_addr().

scsi_pass.c: Add support for mapping buffers in XPT_SMP_IO and
XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCBs.

scsi_xpt.c: In the SCSI probe code, first ask the device for
VPD page 0x00. If any VPD pages are supported,
that page is required to be implemented. Based on
the response, we may probe for the serial number
(page 0x80) or device id (page 0x83).

Add support for the XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO CCB.

sys/conf/files: Add smp_all.c.

mps.c: Add support for passing in a uio in mps_map_command(),
so we can map a S/G list at once.

Add support for SMP passthrough commands in
mps_data_cb(). SMP is a special case, because the
first buffer in the S/G list is outbound and the
second buffer is inbound.

Add support for warning the user if the busdma code
comes back with more buffers than will work for the
command. This will, for example, help the user
determine why an SMP command failed if busdma comes
back with three buffers.

mps_pci.c: Add sys/uio.h.

mps_sas.c: Add the SAS address and the parent handle to the
list of fields we pull from device page 0 and cache
in struct mpssas_target. These are needed for SMP
passthrough.

Add support for the XPT_SMP_IO CCB. For now, this
CCB is routed to the addressed device if it supports
SMP, or to its parent if it does not and the parent
does. This is necessary because CAM does not
currently support SMP-only nodes in the topology.

Make SMP passthrough support conditional on
__FreeBSD_version >= 900026. This will make it
easier to MFC this change to the driver without
MFCing the CAM changes as well.

mps_user.c: Un-staticize mpi_init_sge() so we can use it for
the SMP passthrough code.

mpsvar.h: Add a uio and iovecs into struct mps_command for
SMP passthrough commands.

Add a cm_max_segs field to struct mps_command so
that we can warn the user if busdma comes back with
too many segments.

Clear the cm_reply when a command gets freed. If
it is not cleared, reply frames will eventually get
freed into the pool multiple times and corrupt the
pool. (This fix is from scottl.)

Add a prototype for mpi_init_sge().

sys/param.h: Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900026 for the for the
inclusion of the XPT_GDEV_ADVINFO and XPT_SMP_IO
CAM CCBs.

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Use destroy_dev_sched(9) instead of destroy_dev(9) in passcleanup() as
it is indirectly a d_close method.

Prompted by: kib
Reviewed by: mav
MFC after: 2 weeks

MFC r203108:
Large set of CAM improvements:
- Unify bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later,
CAM will automatically reset and scan it. It allows to remove duplicate
code from

MFC r203108:
Large set of CAM improvements:
- Unify bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later,
CAM will automatically reset and scan it. It allows to remove duplicate
code from many drivers.
- Any bus, attached before CAM completed it's boot-time initialization,
will equally join to the process, delaying boot if needed.
- New kern.cam.boot_delay loader tunable should help controllers that
are still unable to register their buses in time (such as slow USB/
PCCard/ CardBus devices), by adding one more event to wait on boot.
- To allow synchronization between different CAM levels, concept of
requests priorities was extended. Priorities now split between several
"run levels". Device can be freezed at specified level, allowing higher
priority requests to pass. For example, no payload requests allowed,
until PMP driver enable port. ATA XPT negotiate transfer parameters,
periph driver configure caching and so on.
- Frozen requests are no more counted by request allocation scheduler.
It fixes deadlocks, when frozen low priority payload requests occupying
slots, required by higher levels to manage theit execution.
- Two last changes were holding proper ATA reinitialization and error
recovery implementation. Now it is done: SATA controllers and Port
Multipliers now implement automatic hot-plug and should correctly
recover from timeouts and bus resets.
- Improve SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without automatic sense
reporting, such as ATAPI or USB. For example, it allows CAM to wait, while
CD drive loads disk, instead of immediately return error status.
- Decapitalize diagnostic messages and make them more readable and sensible.
- Teach PMP driver to limit maximum speed on fan-out ports.
- Make boot wait for PMP scan completes, and make rescan more reliable.
- Fix pass driver, to return CCB to user level in case of error.
- Increase number of retries in cd driver, as device may return several UAs.

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MFp4: Large set of CAM inprovements.

- Unify bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later,
CAM will automatically reset and scan it. It allows to remove duplicate
code from many

MFp4: Large set of CAM inprovements.

- Unify bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later,
CAM will automatically reset and scan it. It allows to remove duplicate
code from many drivers.
- Any bus, attached before CAM completed it's boot-time initialization,
will equally join to the process, delaying boot if needed.
- New kern.cam.boot_delay loader tunable should help controllers that
are still unable to register their buses in time (such as slow USB/
PCCard/ CardBus devices), by adding one more event to wait on boot.
- To allow synchronization between different CAM levels, concept of
requests priorities was extended. Priorities now split between several
"run levels". Device can be freezed at specified level, allowing higher
priority requests to pass. For example, no payload requests allowed,
until PMP driver enable port. ATA XPT negotiate transfer parameters,
periph driver configure caching and so on.
- Frozen requests are no more counted by request allocation scheduler.
It fixes deadlocks, when frozen low priority payload requests occupying
slots, required by higher levels to manage theit execution.
- Two last changes were holding proper ATA reinitialization and error
recovery implementation. Now it is done: SATA controllers and Port
Multipliers now implement automatic hot-plug and should correctly
recover from timeouts and bus resets.
- Improve SCSI error recovery for devices on buses without automatic sense
reporting, such as ATAPI or USB. For example, it allows CAM to wait, while
CD drive loads disk, instead of immediately return error status.
- Decapitalize diagnostic messages and make them more readable and sensible.
- Teach PMP driver to limit maximum speed on fan-out ports.
- Make boot wait for PMP scan completes, and make rescan more reliable.
- Fix pass driver, to return CCB to user level in case of error.
- Increase number of retries in cd driver, as device may return several UAs.

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Separate the parallel scsi knowledge out of the core of the XPT, and
modularize it so that new transports can be created.

Add a transport for SATA

Add a periph+protocol layer for ATA

Add a driver

Separate the parallel scsi knowledge out of the core of the XPT, and
modularize it so that new transports can be created.

Add a transport for SATA

Add a periph+protocol layer for ATA

Add a driver for AHCI-compliant hardware.

Add a maxio field to CAM so that drivers can advertise their max
I/O capability. Modify various drivers so that they are insulated
from the value of MAXPHYS.

The new ATA/SATA code supports AHCI-compliant hardware, and will override
the classic ATA driver if it is loaded as a module at boot time or compiled
into the kernel. The stack now support NCQ (tagged queueing) for increased
performance on modern SATA drives. It also supports port multipliers.

ATA drives are accessed via 'ada' device nodes. ATAPI drives are
accessed via 'cd' device nodes. They can all be enumerated and manipulated
via camcontrol, just like SCSI drives. SCSI commands are not translated to
their ATA equivalents; ATA native commands are used throughout the entire
stack, including camcontrol. See the camcontrol manpage for further
details. Testing this code may require that you update your fstab, and
possibly modify your BIOS to enable AHCI functionality, if available.

This code is very experimental at the moment. The userland ABI/API has
changed, so applications will need to be recompiled. It may change
further in the near future. The 'ada' device name may also change as
more infrastructure is completed in this project. The goal is to
eventually put all CAM busses and devices until newbus, allowing for
interesting topology and management options.

Few functional changes will be seen with existing SCSI/SAS/FC drivers,
though the userland ABI has still changed. In the future, transports
specific modules for SAS and FC may appear in order to better support
the topologies and capabilities of these technologies.

The modularization of CAM and the addition of the ATA/SATA modules is
meant to break CAM out of the mold of being specific to SCSI, letting it
grow to be a framework for arbitrary transports and protocols. It also
allows drivers to be written to support discrete hardware without
jeopardizing the stability of non-related hardware. While only an AHCI
driver is provided now, a Silicon Image driver is also in the works.
Drivers for ICH1-4, ICH5-6, PIIX, classic IDE, and any other hardware
is possible and encouraged. Help with new transports is also encouraged.

Submitted by: scottl, mav
Approved by: re

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Remove dead code.

Found with: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 3667

There is no need to initialize the variable here.

Submitted by: Christoph Mallon christoph.mallon@gmx.de
Reviewed by: kib (as part of a larger patch)
MFC after: 2 weeks

Don't call destroy_dev(9) with a mutex held. While here, shuffle
things around so the periph destructors look alike. Based on a patch
by Jaakko Heinonen.

Submitted by: Jaakko Heinonen
Reviewed by:

Don't call destroy_dev(9) with a mutex held. While here, shuffle
things around so the periph destructors look alike. Based on a patch
by Jaakko Heinonen.

Submitted by: Jaakko Heinonen
Reviewed by: scottl
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation

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Fix refcount locking in cd, pass, and sg periphs.

Remove unit2minor() use from kernel code.

When I changed kern_conf.c three months ago I made device unit numbers
equal to (unneeded) device minor numbers. We used to require
bitshifting, because the

Remove unit2minor() use from kernel code.

When I changed kern_conf.c three months ago I made device unit numbers
equal to (unneeded) device minor numbers. We used to require
bitshifting, because there were eight bits in the middle that were
reserved for a device major number. Not very long after I turned
dev2unit(), minor(), unit2minor() and minor2unit() into macro's.
The unit2minor() and minor2unit() macro's were no-ops.

We'd better not remove these four macro's from the kernel, because there
is a lot of (external) code that may still depend on them. For now it's
harmless to remove all invocations of unit2minor() and minor2unit().

Reviewed by: kib

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Add a helper function for registering async callbacks. Besides
eliminating a lot of duplicated code, this also fixes a locking edge case.

Revert a driver API change to xpt_alloc_ccb that isn't necessary. Fix a
couple of associated error checks.

Remove Giant from CAM. Drivers (SIMs) now register a mutex that CAM will
use to synchornize and protect all data objects that are used for that
SIM. Drivers that are not yet MPSAFE register Giant a

Remove Giant from CAM. Drivers (SIMs) now register a mutex that CAM will
use to synchornize and protect all data objects that are used for that
SIM. Drivers that are not yet MPSAFE register Giant and operate as
usual. RIght now, no drivers are MPSAFE, though a few will be changed
in the coming week as this work settles down.

The driver API has changed, so all CAM drivers will need to be recompiled.
The userland API has not changed, so tools like camcontrol do not need to
be recompiled.

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Add an xpt_print function to reduce most of the xpt_print_path/printf
pairs. Convert the core code to use it.

Reviewed by: scsi (various folks weighing in with good advice)
MFC after: 2 weeks

access only has 2 esses.

MFC after: 3 days