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Date:      Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:37:15 -0700
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>,  FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: char devices without SI_UNMAPPED?
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On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:40 PM Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:20:49PM -0700, Alan Somers wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:20 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:18 AM Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 10:27 -0700, alan somers wrote:
> > >> > I'm trying to exercise the aio code that handles character devices
> > >> > that
> > >> > don't set the SI_UNMAPPED flag.  But I can't find any.  Are there
> any
> > >> > remaining character devices that don't allow unmapped I/O?
> > >> >
> > >> > -Alan
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> I assume you mean disk-like devices?  Probably mmcsd, flash/at45d,
> > >> flash/mx25l.
> > >>
> > >
> > Hm.  I don't have any of those.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > There are times that it's disabled administratively as well, but that
> may
> > > be on a per-I/O basis.
> > > vfs.zfs.vol.unmap_enabled: 1
> > >
> >
> > This one doesn't seem to work.  It looks like the only functionality it
> > gates these days is DIOCGDELETE.
> >
> >
> > > vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed: 1
> > >
> >
> > Well, this one works.  Thanks for the tip.  Unfortunately, it's a
> tunable,
> > so I can't use it for any kind of automated testing.
>
> There is enough geoms which do not support unmapped bios, even if only in
> some configurations.  Recursively grep for G_PF_ACCEPT_UNMAPPED in sys/geom
> to see what I mean.
>

That's different.  If a provider clears G_PF_ACCEPT_UNMAPPED, geom will
create a transient mapping for any unmapped bios sent to that provider.
But the provider still has SI_UNMAPPED set.  SI_UNMAPPED is used in so few
places, I'm wondering if it still has a purpose at all.  Is it obsolete?


>
> After all, an option for geom_nop should be trivial, to force all bios to
> map, instead of inheriting from the lower provider.
>



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