/*D:400
* The Guest block driver
*
* This is a simple block driver, which appears as /dev/lgba, lgbb, lgbc etc.
* The mechanism is simple: we place the information about the request in the
* device page, then use SEND_DMA (containing the data for a write, or an empty
* "ping" DMA for a read).
:*/
/* Copyright 2006 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> IBM Corporation
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
//#define DEBUG
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/lguest_bus.h>
static char next_block_index = 'a';
/*D:420 Here is the structure which holds all the information we need about
* each Guest block device.
*
* I'm sure at this stage, you're wondering "hey, where was the adventure I was
* promised?" and thinking "Rusty sucks, I shall say nasty things about him on
* my blog". I think Real adventures have boring bits, too, and you're in the
* middle of one. But it gets better. Just not quite yet. */
struct blockdev
{
/* The block queue infrastructure wants a spinlock: it is held while it
* calls our block request function. We grab it in our interrupt
* handler so the responses don't mess with new requests. */
spinlock_t lock;
/* The disk structure registered with kernel. */
struct gendisk *disk;
/* The major device number for this disk, and the interrupt. We only
* really keep them here for completeness; we'd need them if we
* supported device unplugging. */
int major;
int irq;
/* The physical address of this device's memory page */
unsigned long phys_addr;
/* The mapped memory page for convenient acces. */
struct lguest_block_page *lb_page;
/* We only have a single request outstanding at a time: this is it. */
struct lguest_dma dma;
struct request *req;
};
/*D:495 We originally used end_request() throughout the driver, but it turns
* out that end_request() is deprecated, and doesn't actually end the request
* (which seems like a good reason to deprecate it!). It simply ends the first
* bio. So if we had 3 bios in a "struct request" we would do all 3,
* end_request(), do 2, end_request(), do 1 and end_request(): twice as much
* work as we needed to do.
*
* This reinforced to me that I do not understand the block layer.
*
* Nonetheless, Jens Axboe gave me this nice helper to end all chunks of a
* request. This improved disk speed by 130%. */
static void end_entire_request(struct request *req, int uptodate)
{
if (end_that_request_first(req, uptodate, req->hard_nr_sectors))
BUG();
add_disk_randomness(req->rq_disk);
blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
end_that_request_last(req, uptodate);
}
/* I'm told there are only two stories in the world worth telling: love and
* hate. So there used to be a love scene here like this:
*
* Launcher: We could make beautiful I/O together, you and I.
* Guest: My, that's a big disk!
*
* Unfortunately, it was just too raunchy for our otherwise-gentle tale. */
/*D:490 This is the interrupt handler, called when a block read or write has
* been completed for us. */
static irqreturn_t lgb_irq(int irq, void *_bd)
{
/* We handed our "struct blockdev" as the argument to request_irq(), so
* it is passed through to us here. This tells us which device we're
* dealing with in case we have more than one. */
struct blockdev *bd = _bd;
unsigned long flags;
/* We weren't doing anything? Strange, but could happen if we shared
* interrupts (we don't!). */
if (!bd->req) {
pr_debug("No work!\n");
return IRQ_NONE;
}
/* Not done yet? That's equally strange. */
if (!bd->lb_page->result) {
pr_debug("No result!\n");
return IRQ_NONE;
}
/* We have to grab the lock before ending the request. */
spin_lock_irqsave(&bd->lock, flags);
/* "result" is 1 for success, 2 for failure: end_entire_request() wants
* to know whether this succeeded or not. */
end_entire_request(bd->req, bd->lb_page->result == 1);
/* Clear out request, it's done. */
bd->req = NULL;
/* Reset incoming DMA for next time. */
bd->dma.used_len = 0;
/* Ready for more reads or writes */
blk_start_queue(bd->disk->queue);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bd->lock, flags);
/* The interrupt was for us, we dealt with it. */
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
/*D:480 The block layer's "struct request" contains a number of "struct bio"s,
* each of which contains "struct bio_vec"s, each of which contains a page, an
* offset and a length.
*
* Fortunately there are iterators to help us walk through the "struct
* request". Even more fortunately, there were plenty of places to steal the
* code from. We pack the "struct request" into our "struct lguest_dma" and
* return the total length. */
static unsigned int req_to_dma(struct request *req, struct lguest_dma *dma)
{
unsigned int i = 0, len = 0;
struct req_iterator iter;
struct bio_vec *bvec;
rq_for_each_segment(bvec, req, iter) {
/* We told the block layer not to give us too many. */
BUG_ON(i == LGUEST_MAX_DMA_SECTIONS);
/* If we had a zero-length segment, it would look like
* the end of the data referred to by the "struct
* lguest_dma", so make sure that doesn't happen. */
BUG_ON(!bvec->bv_len);
/* Convert page & offset to a physical address */
dma->addr[i] = page_to_phys(bvec->bv_page)
+ bvec->bv_offset;
dma->len[i] = bvec->bv_len;
len += bvec->bv_len;
i++;
}
/* If the array isn't full, we mark the end with a 0 length */
if (i < LGUEST_MAX_DMA_SECTIONS)
dma->len[i] = 0;
return len;
}
/* This creates an empty DMA, useful for prodding the Host without sending data
* (ie. when we want to do a read) */
static void empty_dma(struct lguest_dma *dma)
{
dma->len[0] = 0;
}
/*D:470 Setting up a request is fairly easy: */
static void setup_req(struct blockdev *bd,
int type, struct request *req, struct lguest_dma *dma)
{
/* The type is 1 (write) or 0 (read). */
bd->lb_page->type = type;
/* The sector on disk where the read or write starts. */
bd->lb_page->sector = req->sector;
/* The result is initialized to 0 (unfinished). */
bd->lb_page->result = 0;
/* The current request (so we can end it in the interrupt handler). */
bd->req = req;
/* The number of bytes: returned as a side-effect of req_to_dma(),
* which packs the block layer's "struct request" into our "struct
* lguest_dma" */
bd->lb_page->bytes = req_to_dma(req, dma);
}
/*D:450 Write is pretty straightforward: we pack the request into a "struct
* lguest_dma", then use SEND_DMA to send the request. */
static void do_write(struct blockdev *bd, struct request *req)
{
struct lguest_dma send;
pr_debug("lgb: WRITE sector %li\n", (long)req->sector);
setup_req(bd, 1, req, &send);
lguest_send_dma(bd->phys_addr, &send);
}
/* Read is similar to write, except we pack the request into our receive
* "struct lguest_dma" and send through an empty DMA just to tell the Host that
* there's a request pending. */
static void do_read(struct blockdev *bd, struct request *req)
{
struct lguest_dma ping;
pr_debug("lgb: READ sector %li\n", (long)req->sector);
setup_req(bd, 0, req, &bd->dma);
empty_dma(&ping);
lguest_send_dma(bd->phys_addr, &ping);
}
/*D:440 This where requests come in: we get handed the request queue and are
* expected to pull a "struct request" off it until we've finished them or
* we're waiting for a reply: */
static void do_lgb_request(struct request_queue *q)
{
struct blockdev *bd;
struct request *req;
again:
/* This sometimes returns NULL even on the very first time around. I
* wonder if it's something to do with letting elves handle the request
* queue... */
req = elv_next_request(q);
if (!req)
return;
/* We attached the struct blockdev to the disk: get it back */
bd = req->rq_disk->private_data;
/* Sometimes we get repeated requests after blk_stop_queue(), but we
* can only handle one at a time. */
if (bd->req)
return;
/* We only do reads and writes: no tricky business! */
if (!blk_fs_request(req)) {
pr_debug("Got non-command 0x%08x\n", req->cmd_type);
req->errors++;
end_entire_request(req, 0);
goto again;
}
if (rq_data_dir(req) == WRITE)
do_write(bd, req);
else
do_read(bd, req);
/* We've put out the request, so stop any more coming in until we get
* an interrupt, which takes us to lgb_irq() to re-enable the queue. */
blk_stop_queue(q);
}
/*D:430 This is the "struct block_device_operations" we attach to the disk at
* the end of lguestblk_probe(). It doesn't seem to want much. */
static struct block_device_operations lguestblk_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
/*D:425 Setting up a disk device seems to involve a lot of code. I'm not sure
* quite why. I do know that the IDE code sent two or three of the maintainers
* insane, perhaps this is the fringe of the same disease?
*
* As in the console code, the probe function gets handed the generic
* lguest_device from lguest_bus.c: */
static int lguestblk_probe(struct lguest_device *lgdev)
{
struct blockdev *bd;
int err;
int irqflags = IRQF_SHARED;
/* First we allocate our own "struct blockdev" and initialize the easy
* fields. */
bd = kmalloc(sizeof(*bd), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!bd)
return -ENOMEM;
spin_lock_init(&bd->lock);
bd->irq = lgdev_irq(lgdev);
bd->req = NULL;
bd->dma.used_len = 0;
bd->dma.len[0] = 0;
/* The descriptor in the lguest_devices array provided by the Host
* gives the Guest the physical page number of the device's page. */
bd->phys_addr = (lguest_devices[lgdev->index].pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
/* We use lguest_map() to get a pointer to the device page */
bd->lb_page = lguest_map(bd->phys_addr, 1);
if (!bd->lb_page) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_free_bd;
}
/* We need a major device number: 0 means "assign one dynamically". */
bd->major = register_blkdev(0, "lguestblk");
if (bd->major < 0) {
err = bd->major;
goto out_unmap;
}
/* This allocates a "struct gendisk" where we pack all the information
* about the disk which the rest of Linux sees. The argument is the
* number of minor devices desired: we need one minor for the main
* disk, and one for each partition. Of course, we can't possibly know
* how many partitions are on the disk (add_disk does that).
*/
bd->disk = alloc_disk(16);
if (!bd->disk) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_unregister_blkdev;
}
/* Every disk needs a queue for requests to come in: we set up the
* queue with a callback function (the core of our driver) and the lock
* to use. */
bd->disk->queue = blk_init_queue(do_lgb_request, &bd->lock);
if (!bd->disk->queue) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_put_disk;
}
/* We can only handle a certain number of pointers in our SEND_DMA
* call, so we set that with blk_queue_max_hw_segments(). This is not
* to be confused with blk_queue_max_phys_segments() of course! I
* know, who could possibly confuse the two?
*
* Well, it's simple to tell them apart: this one seems to work and the
* other one didn't. */
blk_queue_max_hw_segments(bd->disk->queue, LGUEST_MAX_DMA_SECTIONS);
/* Due to technical limitations of our Host (and simple coding) we
* can't have a single buffer which crosses a page boundary. Tell it
* here. This means that our maximum request size is 16
* (LGUEST_MAX_DMA_SECTIONS) pages. */
blk_queue_segment_boundary(bd->disk->queue, PAGE_SIZE-1);
/* We name our disk: this becomes the device name when udev does its
* magic thing and creates the device node, such as /dev/lgba.
* next_block_index is a global which starts at 'a'. Unfortunately
* this simple increment logic means that the 27th disk will be called
* "/dev/lgb{". In that case, I recommend having at least 29 disks, so
* your /dev directory will be balanced. */
sprintf(bd->disk->disk_name, "lgb%c", next_block_index++);
/* We look to the device descriptor again to see if this device's
* interrupts are expected to be random. If they are, we tell the irq
* subsystem. At the moment this bit is always set. */
if (lguest_devices[lgdev->index].features & LGUEST_DEVICE_F_RANDOMNESS)
irqflags |= IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM;
/* Now we have the name and irqflags, we can request the interrupt; we
* give it the "struct blockdev" we have set up to pass to lgb_irq()
* when there is an interrupt. */
err = request_irq(bd->irq, lgb_irq, irqflags, bd->disk->disk_name, bd);
if (err)
goto out_cleanup_queue;
/* We bind our one-entry DMA pool to the key for this block device so
* the Host can reply to our requests. The key is equal to the
* physical address of the device's page, which is conveniently
* unique. */
err = lguest_bind_dma(bd->phys_addr, &bd->dma, 1, bd->irq);
if (err)
goto out_free_irq;
/* We finish our disk initialization and add the disk to the system. */
bd->disk->major = bd->major;
bd->disk->first_minor = 0;
bd->disk->private_data = bd;
bd->disk->fops = &lguestblk_fops;
/* This is initialized to the disk size by the Launcher. */
set_capacity(bd->disk, bd->lb_page->num_sectors);
add_disk(bd->disk);
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: device %i at major %d\n",
bd->disk->disk_name, lgdev->index, bd->major);
/* We don't need to keep the "struct blockdev" around, but if we ever
* implemented device removal, we'd need this. */
lgdev->private = bd;
return 0;
out_free_irq:
free_irq(bd->irq, bd);
out_cleanup_queue:
blk_cleanup_queue(bd->disk->queue);
out_put_disk:
put_disk(bd->disk);
out_unregister_blkdev:
unregister_blkdev(bd->major, "lguestblk");
out_unmap:
lguest_unmap(bd->lb_page);
out_free_bd:
kfree(bd);
return err;
}
/*D:410 The boilerplate code for registering the lguest block driver is just
* like the console: */
static struct lguest_driver lguestblk_drv = {
.name = "lguestblk",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.device_type = LGUEST_DEVICE_T_BLOCK,
.probe = lguestblk_probe,
};
static __init int lguestblk_init(void)
{
return register_lguest_driver(&lguestblk_drv);
}
module_init(lguestblk_init);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Lguest block driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
