1 PORTING FREEBSD DRIVERS TO DRAGONFLY
3 * Copy the driver code to the appropriate DragonFly directory. For example,
4 a disk driver /usr/src/sys/dev/blah in FreeBSD would likely be
5 /usr/src/sys/dev/disk/blah in DragonFly.
7 * Keep all the SVN IDs in the files as a future reference point. dports' SVN
8 will do that by default. When using the FreeBSD git repo, please note the
9 files' IDs manually, either in the files themselves or in the commit message.
10 The general idea is that it must not get lost.
12 * Driver local #include's probably use a <dev/blah/blah.h> path. These
13 need to be changed to "blah.h". '.' is not included in the #include
14 path in FreeBSD builds, but it is in DragonFly builds.
16 * Other #include's may reference things in <dev/...> which in DragonFly
17 reside in <bus/...>. In particular, dev/pccard becomes bus/pccard.
18 Note that defines in FreeBSD's pccard_cis.h reside in DragonFly's
21 * The following kernel functions have been renamed in DragonFly:
23 malloc(), free() etc. -> kmalloc(), kfree() etc.
24 printf() etc. -> kprintf() etc.
25 psignal() -> ksignal()
28 * MUTEX conversion - mutexes are generally replaced by spinlocks. However,
29 DragonFly spinlocks are more restrictive than FreeBSD mutexes so a
30 direct replacement is not necessarily appropriate in all cases. A lockmgr
31 lock should be used when a direct replacement is not appropriate.
32 In particular, DragonFly does not allow recursive exclusive spinlocks
33 and does not allow multiple exclusive spinlocks to be held by any given
36 Instances of <sys/mutex.h> should be replaced with <sys/spinlock.h>.
38 When replacing mutexes with spinlocks it is a good idea to rename
39 the structural field (typically 'mtx') to something else (typically 'spin').
41 The &Giant mutex is typically converted to get_mplock() and rel_mplock().
42 However, there are places where FreeBSD unlocks giant around some code and
43 then relocks giant... those should simply be removed.
45 FreeBSD has weird callout + mutex functions. DragonFly does not integrate
46 the two. Instead, the driver in DragonFly must obtain the spinlocks
47 in question in the callback routine.
49 As a rule of thumb, MTX_DEF mutexes should be replaced with exclusive,
50 recursive lockmgr locks.
52 So, suppose the original code is using
54 you'd normally rename it to
57 and change the initialization from something like
58 mtx_init(&my_mtx, "mymtx", "whatever", MTX_DEF);
60 lockinit(&my_lock, "mylock", 0, LK_CANRECURSE);
62 Destroying it is trivial,
67 You use the same function for locking and unlocking a lockmgr lock,
71 lockmgr(&my_lock, LK_EXCLUSIVE);
75 lockmgr(&my_lock, LK_RELEASE);
77 For testing the lock status, one would use
78 lockstatus(&my_lock, curthread);
85 lockmgr(&my_lock, LK_EXCLUSIVE|LK_NOWAIT);
87 As for mtx_assert() calls, translate them like this:
89 mtx_assert(&my_mtx, MA_OWNED) -> KKASSERT(lockstatus(&my_lock, curthread) != 0)
90 mtx_assert(&my_mtx, MA_NOTOWNED) -> KKASSERT(lockstatus(&my_lock, curthread) == 0)
92 In DragonFly, lockstatus() does not return information about whether there have been
93 recursive lock acquisitions, so there is no generic way to emulate the
95 mtx_assert(&my_mtx, MA_OWNED|MA_RECURSED);
96 mtx_assert(&my_mtx, MA_OWNED|MA_NOTRECURSED);
100 * rwlock conversion: Use lockmgr locks
102 * UMA conversion - generally speaking UMA should be converted to a standard
105 Note however that in FreeBSD M_NOWAIT is often used in cases where, in fact,
106 the kmalloc cannot fail without blowing something up or causing a fatal
107 (and very unexpected) I/O error. M_INTWAIT should be used for these cases.
109 * CDEVSW conversion - see other devices. Generally speaking a major number
110 is needed and a function map needs to be specified more explicitly.
112 Most calls passing struct cdev pointers are dev_t's in DragonFly.
114 All device vectors in DragonFly pass a dev_<name>_args structure pointer
115 instead of explicit arguments.
117 Strategy calls - we pass BIO's and a lot of BUF fields are in the BIO
118 in FreeBSD, but left in the BUF in DragonFly. FreeBSD for some reason
119 names its struct bio pointers 'bp', its a good idea to rename them to 'bio'
120 to avoid confusion and have a struct buf *bp = bio->bio_buf; pointer to
123 * MSLEEP/TSLEEP conversion. The DragonFly msleep/tsleep do not have 'PRI'
124 priorities. 0 should be used.
128 bus_setup_intr() - replace INTR_TYPE_* flags with 0. There is an extra
129 argument for an interrupt interlock using the sys/serializer.h interface.
130 This can either be left NULL or you can convert the spinlock(s) for
131 the driver into serializer locks and integrate the interrupt service
132 routine with a serializer.
134 * CAM CODE - cam_simq* code refcounts, so shared device queues (raid and
135 multi-channel devices) are not freed before all references have gone
138 * callout_drain() should be replaced by callout_stop_sync()
140 * UNRHDR functions - DragonFly uses a more generic idr(9) subsystem
141 compatible with the Linux API of the same name
143 This LWN article describes it in details: http://lwn.net/Articles/103209/
145 A typical conversion looks like this:
149 free_unr() has to be replaced by idr_remove()
151 alloc_unr() has to be replaced by a code sequence using idr_pre_get and
152 idr_get_new such as this one:
155 if (idr_pre_get(xxx) ==0) {
156 kprintf("Memory allocation error\n");
160 ret = idr_get_new(xxx);
165 * MPASS macro - Replace it with KKASSERT
168 * PROC_LOCK / PROC_UNLOCK: to be determined on a case-by-case basis
170 Some of the time these macros can be removed entirely
172 In some cases, some locking must be done; lwkt_gettoken(&proc_token)
173 and the corresponding lwkt_reltoken() call should be good replacements
175 It is not a good idea to blindly implement these macros globally, some
176 particular proc subsystem locking semantics differ enough between FreeBSD
177 and DragonFly that this would cause problems
180 * In DragonFly 3.3 format specifier %D was removed from kprintf. As a
181 replacement functions kether_ntoa() and hexncpy() were added.
183 - Ethernet address (MAC) to its hexadecimal form:
185 char ethstr[ETHER_ADDRSTRLEN + 1];
188 kprintf("MAC address %s\n", kether_ntoa(hwaddr, ethstr)
190 - Generic conversion (block of bytes to hexadecimal form):
193 u_char mydata[6] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6};
196 * Below statement would print:
200 kprintf("%s\n", hexncpy(mydata, 6, hexstr, HEX_NCPYLEN(6), "-"));
204 Use TAILQ_XXX_MUTABLE; the macros have the same effect, only the name is
209 Replace by lwkt_yield()
211 * vm_page_lock() and vm_page_unlock()
213 Not needed on DragonFly, remove these calls
215 * vm_pager_get_pages()
217 Removed, use vm_pager_get_page() instead