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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd November 1, 2006
+.Dt G_BIO 9
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm g_new_bio ,
+.Nm g_clone_bio ,
+.Nm g_destroy_bio ,
+.Nm g_print_bio
+.Nd "GEOM bio controlling functions"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/bio.h
+.In geom/geom.h
+.Ft "struct bio *"
+.Fn g_new_bio void
+.Ft "struct bio *"
+.Fn g_alloc_bio void
+.Ft "struct bio *"
+.Fn g_clone_bio "struct bio *bp"
+.Ft "struct bio *"
+.Fn g_duplicate_bio "struct bio *bp"
+.Ft void
+.Fn g_destroy_bio "struct bio *bp"
+.Ft void
+.Fn g_print_bio "struct bio *bp"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+A
+.Vt "struct bio"
+is used by GEOM to describe I/O requests, its
+most important fields are described below:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Va bio_attribute"
+.It Va bio_cmd
+I/O request command.
+There are four I/O requests available in GEOM:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Dv BIO_GETATTR"
+.It Dv BIO_READ
+A read request.
+.It Dv BIO_WRITE
+A write request.
+.It Dv BIO_DELETE
+Indicates that a certain range of data is no longer used and that
+it can be erased or freed as the underlying technology supports.
+Technologies like flash adaptation layers can arrange to erase the relevant
+blocks before they will become reassigned and cryptographic devices may
+want to fill random bits into the range to reduce the amount of data
+available for attack.
+.It Dv BIO_GETATTR
+Inspect and manipulate out-of-band
+attributes on a particular provider or path.
+Attributes are named by ascii strings and are stored in the
+.Va bio_attribute
+field.
+.It Dv BIO_FLUSH
+Tells underlying providers to flush their write caches.
+.El
+.It Va bio_flags
+Available flags:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Dv BIO_ERROR"
+.It Dv BIO_ERROR
+Request failed (error value is stored in
+.Va bio_error
+field).
+.It Dv BIO_DONE
+Request finished.
+.El
+.It Va bio_cflags
+Private use by the consumer.
+.It Va bio_pflags
+Private use by the provider.
+.It Va bio_offset
+Offset into provider.
+.It Va bio_data
+Pointer to data buffer.
+.It Va bio_error
+Error value when
+.Dv BIO_ERROR
+is set.
+.It Va bio_done
+Pointer to function which will be called when the request is finished.
+.It Va bio_driver1
+Private use by the provider.
+.It Va bio_driver2
+Private use by the provider.
+.It Va bio_caller1
+Private use by the consumer.
+.It Va bio_caller2
+Private use by the consumer.
+.It Va bio_attribute
+Attribute string for
+.Dv BIO_GETATTR
+request.
+.It Va bio_from
+Consumer to use for request (attached to provider stored in
+.Va bio_to
+field) (typically read-only for a class).
+.It Va bio_to
+Destination provider (typically read-only for a class).
+.It Va bio_length
+Request length in bytes.
+.It Va bio_completed
+Number of bytes completed, but they may not be completed from
+the front of the request.
+.It Va bio_children
+Number of
+.Vt bio
+clones (typically read-only for a class).
+.It Va bio_inbed
+Number of finished
+.Vt bio
+clones.
+.It Va bio_parent
+Pointer to parent
+.Vt bio .
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn g_new_bio
+function allocates a new, empty
+.Vt bio
+structure.
+.Pp
+.Fn g_alloc_bio
+- same as
+.Fn g_new_bio ,
+but always succeeds (allocates bio with the
+.Dv M_WAITOK
+malloc flag).
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn g_clone_bio
+function allocates a new
+.Vt bio
+structure and copies the following fields from the
+.Vt bio
+given as an argument to clone:
+.Va bio_cmd ,
+.Va bio_length ,
+.Va bio_offset ,
+.Va bio_data ,
+.Va bio_attribute .
+The field
+.Va bio_parent
+in the clone points to the passed
+.Vt bio
+and the field
+.Va bio_children
+in the passed
+.Vt bio
+is incremented.
+.Pp
+This function should be used for every request which enters through
+the provider of a particular geom and needs to be scheduled down.
+Proper order is:
+.Pp
+.Bl -enum -compact
+.It
+Clone the received
+.Vt "struct bio" .
+.It
+Modify the clone.
+.It
+Schedule the clone on its own consumer.
+.El
+.Pp
+.Fn g_duplicate_bio
+- same as
+.Fn g_clone_bio ,
+but always succeeds (allocates bio with the
+.Dv M_WAITOK
+malloc flag).
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn g_destroy_bio
+function deallocates and destroys the given
+.Vt bio
+structure.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn g_print_bio
+function prints information about the given
+.Vt bio
+structure (for debugging purposes).
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+The
+.Fn g_new_bio
+and
+.Fn g_clone_bio
+functions return a pointer to the allocated
+.Vt bio ,
+or
+.Dv NULL
+if an error occurred.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Implementation of
+.Dq Dv NULL Ns -transformation ,
+meaning that an I/O request is cloned and scheduled down without any
+modifications.
+Let us assume that field
+.Va ex_consumer
+in structure
+.Vt example_softc
+contains a consumer attached to the provider we want to operate on.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+void
+example_start(struct bio *bp)
+{
+ struct example_softc *sc;
+ struct bio *cbp;
+
+ printf("Request received: ");
+ g_print_bio(bp);
+ printf("\\n");
+
+ sc = bp->bio_to->geom->softc;
+ if (sc == NULL) {
+ g_io_deliver(bp, ENXIO);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Let's clone our bio request. */
+ cbp = g_clone_bio(bp);
+ if (cbp == NULL) {
+ g_io_deliver(bp, ENOMEM);
+ return;
+ }
+ cbp->bio_done = g_std_done; /* Standard 'done' function. */
+
+ /* Ok, schedule it down. */
+ /*
+ * The consumer can be obtained from
+ * LIST_FIRST(&bp->bio_to->geom->consumers) as well,
+ * if there is only one in our geom.
+ */
+ g_io_request(cbp, sc->ex_consumer);
+}
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr geom 4 ,
+.Xr DECLARE_GEOM_CLASS 9 ,
+.Xr g_access 9 ,
+.Xr g_attach 9 ,
+.Xr g_consumer 9 ,
+.Xr g_data 9 ,
+.Xr g_event 9 ,
+.Xr g_geom 9 ,
+.Xr g_provider 9 ,
+.Xr g_provider_by_name 9 ,
+.Xr g_wither_geom 9
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+This manual page was written by
+.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq Mt pjd@FreeBSD.org .
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