- Fix a bug where the bio_data field of the wrong BIO is freed if an error
occurs when doing a RAID5 request.

Import the gvinum work that have been done during and after Summer of Code 2007.
The work have been under testing and fixing since then, and it is mature enough
to be put into HEAD for further testin

Import the gvinum work that have been done during and after Summer of Code 2007.
The work have been under testing and fixing since then, and it is mature enough
to be put into HEAD for further testing.

A lot have changed in this time, and here are the most important:
- Gvinum now uses one single workerthread instead of one thread for each
volume and each plex. The reason for this is that the previous scheme was
very complex, and was the cause of many of the bugs discovered in gvinum.
Instead, gvinum now uses one worker thread with an event queue, quite
similar to what used in gmirror.
- The rebuild/grow/initialize/parity check routines no longer runs in
separate threads, but are run as regular I/O requests with special flags.
This made it easier to support mounted growing and parity rebuild.
- Support for growing striped and raid5-plexes, meaning that one can extend the
volumes for these plex types in addition to the concat type. Also works while
the volume is mounted.
- Implementation of many of the missing commands from the old vinum:
attach/detach, start (was partially implemented), stop (was partially
implemented), concat, mirror, stripe, raid5 (shortcuts for creating volumes
with one plex of these organizations).
- The parity check and rebuild no longer goes between userland/kernel, meaning
that the gvinum command will not stay and wait forever for the rebuild to
finish. You can instead watch the status with the list command.
- Many problems with gvinum have been reported since 5.x, and some has been hard
to fix due to the complicated architecture. Hopefully, it should be more
stable and better handle edge cases that previously made gvinum crash.
- Failed drives no longer disappears entirely, but now leave behind a dummy
drive that makes sure the original state is not forgotten in case the system
is rebooted between drive failures/swaps.
- Update manpage to reflect new commands and extend it with some examples.

Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Mentored by: le
Tested by: Rick C. Petty <rick-freebsd2008 -at- kiwi-computer.com>

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- Import macros used in gmirror for printing gvinum debug messages and making
the output more standardized.
- Add a sysctl to set the verbosity of the debug messages.
- While there, fixup typos and

- Import macros used in gmirror for printing gvinum debug messages and making
the output more standardized.
- Add a sysctl to set the verbosity of the debug messages.
- While there, fixup typos and wording in the messages.

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Implement checkparity/rebuildparity.

Move RAID5 offset calculation into a separate function to avoid
code duplication.

Make it possible to rebuild degraded RAID5 plexes. Note that it is
currently not possible to do this while the volume is mounted.

MFC in: 1 week

Re-vamp how I/O is handled in volumes and plexes.

Analogous to the drive level, give each volume and plex a worker thread
that picks up and processes incoming and completed BIOs.

This should fix th

Re-vamp how I/O is handled in volumes and plexes.

Analogous to the drive level, give each volume and plex a worker thread
that picks up and processes incoming and completed BIOs.

This should fix the data corruption issues that have come up a few
weeks ago and improve performance, especially of RAID5 plexes.

The volume level needs a little work, though.

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Compare the addresses of two RAID5 work packets directly instead
of the addresses of their related bios when locking one out, since
they could share a bio and this could lead to parity corruption.

Add a function to clean up RAID5 packets and use it when I/O has
finished or when building the complete packet fails.

Remove two debugging printfs that are currently rather disturbing
than helpful.

Don't sleep in the g_down path. More error checks to come.

Correctly calculate subdisk offset in RAID5 plexes.

Add a first version of a GEOMified vinum.

geom(4): Fix some of the "set but not used" warnings

The few I've left in place look like potential bugs.

Sponsored By: EPSRC

geom: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files

Reimplement gvinum orphanization.

gvinum was the only GEOM class, using consumer nstart/nend fields. Making
it do its own accounting for orphanization purposes allows in perspective
to remove burden

Reimplement gvinum orphanization.

gvinum was the only GEOM class, using consumer nstart/nend fields. Making
it do its own accounting for orphanization purposes allows in perspective
to remove burden of that expensive for SMP accounting from GEOM.

Also the previous implementation spinned in a tight event loop, waiting
for all active BIOs to complete, while the new one knows exactly when it
is possible to close the consumer.

MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.

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GEOM: Reduce unnecessary log interleaving with sbufs

Similar to what was done for device_printfs in r347229.

Convert g_print_bio() to a thin shim around g_format_bio(), which acts on an
sbuf; docum

GEOM: Reduce unnecessary log interleaving with sbufs

Similar to what was done for device_printfs in r347229.

Convert g_print_bio() to a thin shim around g_format_bio(), which acts on an
sbuf; documented in g_bio.9.

Reviewed by: markj
Discussed with: rlibby
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21165

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sys/geom: adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone

sys/geom: adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

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- Split up the BIO queue into a queue for new and one for completed requests.
This is necessary for two reasons:
1) In order to avoid collisions with the use of a BIOs flags set by a consumer

- Split up the BIO queue into a queue for new and one for completed requests.
This is necessary for two reasons:
1) In order to avoid collisions with the use of a BIOs flags set by a consumer
or a provider
2) Because GV_BIO_DONE was used to mark a BIO as done, not enough flags was
available, so the consumer flags of a BIO had to be misused in order to
support enough flags. The new queue makes it possible to recycle the
GV_BIO_DONE flag into GV_BIO_GROW.
As a consequence, gvinum will now work with any other GEOM class under it or
on top of it.

- Use bio_pflags for storing internal flags on downgoing BIOs, as the requests
appear to come from a consumer of a gvinum volume. Use bio_cflags only for
cloned BIOs.
- Move gv_post_bio to be used internally for maintenance requests.
- Remove some cases where flags where set without need.

PR: kern/133604

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- Fix a bug where the bio_data field of the wrong BIO is freed if an error
occurs when doing a RAID5 request.

Import the gvinum work that have been done during and after Summer of Code 2007.
The work have been under testing and fixing since then, and it is mature enough
to be put into HEAD for further testin

Import the gvinum work that have been done during and after Summer of Code 2007.
The work have been under testing and fixing since then, and it is mature enough
to be put into HEAD for further testing.

A lot have changed in this time, and here are the most important:
- Gvinum now uses one single workerthread instead of one thread for each
volume and each plex. The reason for this is that the previous scheme was
very complex, and was the cause of many of the bugs discovered in gvinum.
Instead, gvinum now uses one worker thread with an event queue, quite
similar to what used in gmirror.
- The rebuild/grow/initialize/parity check routines no longer runs in
separate threads, but are run as regular I/O requests with special flags.
This made it easier to support mounted growing and parity rebuild.
- Support for growing striped and raid5-plexes, meaning that one can extend the
volumes for these plex types in addition to the concat type. Also works while
the volume is mounted.
- Implementation of many of the missing commands from the old vinum:
attach/detach, start (was partially implemented), stop (was partially
implemented), concat, mirror, stripe, raid5 (shortcuts for creating volumes
with one plex of these organizations).
- The parity check and rebuild no longer goes between userland/kernel, meaning
that the gvinum command will not stay and wait forever for the rebuild to
finish. You can instead watch the status with the list command.
- Many problems with gvinum have been reported since 5.x, and some has been hard
to fix due to the complicated architecture. Hopefully, it should be more
stable and better handle edge cases that previously made gvinum crash.
- Failed drives no longer disappears entirely, but now leave behind a dummy
drive that makes sure the original state is not forgotten in case the system
is rebooted between drive failures/swaps.
- Update manpage to reflect new commands and extend it with some examples.

Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Mentored by: le
Tested by: Rick C. Petty <rick-freebsd2008 -at- kiwi-computer.com>

show more ...

- Import macros used in gmirror for printing gvinum debug messages and making
the output more standardized.
- Add a sysctl to set the verbosity of the debug messages.
- While there, fixup typos and

- Import macros used in gmirror for printing gvinum debug messages and making
the output more standardized.
- Add a sysctl to set the verbosity of the debug messages.
- While there, fixup typos and wording in the messages.

show more ...

Implement checkparity/rebuildparity.

Move RAID5 offset calculation into a separate function to avoid
code duplication.

Make it possible to rebuild degraded RAID5 plexes. Note that it is
currently not possible to do this while the volume is mounted.

MFC in: 1 week