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30.Dd September 14, 2022
31.Dt DOMAIN 9
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm domain ,
35.Nm protosw
36.Nd "programming interface for kernel socket implementation"
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/kernel.h
40.In sys/protosw.h
41.In sys/domain.h
42.Ft void
43.Fn domain_add "struct domain *dom"
44.Ft void
45.Fn domain_remove "struct domain *dom"
46.Ft void
47.Fn DOMAIN_SET "domain"
48.Ft int
49.Fn protosw_register "struct domain *dom" "struct protosw *pr"
50.Ft int
51.Fn protosw_unregister "struct protosw *pr"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Nm
55subsystem allows implementation of communication protocols that are exposed to
56the userland via the
57.Xr socket 2
58API.
59When an application performs a
60.Fn socket "domain" "type" "protocol"
61syscall, the kernel searches for a
62.Nm
63matching the
64.Ar domain
65argument, then within this domain, searches for a protocol
66matching
67.Ar type .
68If the third argument,
69.Ar protocol ,
70is not
71.Dv 0 ,
72that value must also match.
73The structure found must implement certain methods, so that
74.Xr socket 2
75API works for this particular kind of a socket.
76.Pp
77A minimal
78.Nm
79structure implementing a domain shall be initialized with sparse C99
80initializer and has public fields as follows:
81.Bd -literal
82struct domain {
83    /*
84     * Mandatory fields.
85     */
86    int	dom_family;	/* PF_xxx, first argument of socket(2) */
87    char	*dom_name;	/* text name of the domain */
88    u_int	dom_nprotosw;	/* length of dom_protosw[] */
89    /*
90     * Following methods are optional.
91     */
92    int	(*dom_probe)(void);			/* check for support */
93    struct rib_head *(*dom_rtattach)(uint32_t);	/* init route table */
94    void (*dom_rtdetach)(struct rib_head *);	/* clean up table */
95    void *(*dom_ifattach)(struct ifnet *);	/* interface attach */
96    void (*dom_ifdetach)(struct ifnet *, void *);/* & detach callbacks */
97    int	(*dom_ifmtu)(struct ifnet *);		/* mtu change */
98    /*
99     * Mandatory variable size array of pointers to protosw structs.
100     */
101    struct  protosw *dom_protosw[];
102};
103.Ed
104.Pp
105Each domain contains the
106.Va dom_protosw
107array of protocol switch structures
108.Pq Vt "struct protosw *" ,
109one for each socket type supported.
110The array may have
111.Dv NULL
112spacers for loadable protocols.
113Sparse C99 initializers shall be used to initialize
114.Nm protosw
115structures.
116The structure has mandatory field
117.Va pr_type
118and mandatory
119.Va pr_attach
120method.
121The rest of the methods are optional, but a meaningful protocol should
122implement some.
123.Bd -literal
124struct protosw {
125    short	pr_type;	/* second argument of socket(2) */
126    short	pr_protocol;	/* third argument of socket(2) or 0 */
127    short	pr_flags;	/* see protosw.h */
128    pr_soreceive_t  *pr_soreceive;  /* recv(2) */
129    pr_rcvd_t       *pr_rcvd;       /* soreceive_generic() if PR_WANTRCV */
130    pr_sosend_t     *pr_sosend;     /* send(2) */
131    pr_send_t       *pr_send;       /* send(2) via sosend_generic() */
132    pr_ready_t      *pr_ready;      /* sendfile/ktls readyness */
133    pr_sopoll_t     *pr_sopoll;     /* poll(2) */
134    pr_attach_t     *pr_attach;     /* creation: socreate(), sonewconn() */
135    pr_detach_t     *pr_detach;     /* destruction: sofree() */
136    pr_connect_t    *pr_connect;    /* connect(2) */
137    pr_disconnect_t *pr_disconnect; /* sodisconnect() */
138    pr_close_t      *pr_close;      /* close(2) */
139    pr_shutdown_t   *pr_shutdown;   /* shutdown(2) */
140    pr_abort_t      *pr_abort;      /* abrupt tear down: soabort() */
141    pr_aio_queue_t  *pr_aio_queue;  /* aio(9) */
142    pr_bind_t       *pr_bind;       /* bind(2) */
143    pr_bindat_t     *pr_bindat;     /* bindat(2) */
144    pr_listen_t     *pr_listen;     /* listen(2) */
145    pr_accept_t     *pr_accept;     /* accept(2) */
146    pr_connectat_t  *pr_connectat;  /* connectat(2) */
147    pr_connect2_t   *pr_connect2;   /* socketpair(2) */
148    pr_control_t    *pr_control;    /* ioctl(2) */
149    pr_rcvoob_t     *pr_rcvoob;     /* soreceive_rcvoob() */
150    pr_ctloutput_t  *pr_ctloutput;  /* control output (from above) */
151    pr_peeraddr_t   *pr_peeraddr;   /* getpeername(2) */
152    pr_sockaddr_t   *pr_sockaddr;   /* getsockname(2) */
153    pr_sense_t      *pr_sense;      /* stat(2) */
154};
155.Ed
156.Pp
157The following functions handle the registration of new domains and protocols.
158.Pp
159.Fn domain_add
160adds a new protocol domain to the system.
161In most cases
162.Fn domain_add
163is not called directly, instead
164.Fn DOMAIN_SET
165is used, which is a wrapper around
166.Fn SYSINIT
167macro.
168If the new domain has defined a
169.Va dom_probe
170routine, it is called first in
171.Fn domain_add
172to determine if the domain should be supported on the current system.
173If the probe routine returns a non-0 value, then the domain will not be added.
174Once a domain is added it cannot be completely unloaded.
175This is because there is
176no reference counting system in place to determine if there are any
177active references from sockets within that domain.
178However, the exprimental
179.Fn domain_remove
180exists, and unloadable domains may be supported in the future.
181.Pp
182.Fn protosw_register
183dynamically adds a protocol to a domain, if the latter
184has an empty slot in its
185.Va dom_protosw .
186Dynamically added protocol can later be unloaded with
187.Fn protosw_unregister .
188.Ed
189.Sh RETURN VALUES
190The
191.Fn domain_add
192never fails, but it may not add a domain if its
193.Va dom_probe
194fails.
195.Pp
196The
197.Fn protosw_register
198function may fail if:
199.Bl -tag -width Er
200.It Bq Er EEXIST
201A protocol with the same value of
202.Va pr_type
203and
204.Va pr_protocol
205already exists in the domain.
206.It Bq Er ENOMEM
207The domain doesn't have any NULL slots in its
208.Va dom_protosw .
209.El
210.Sh SEE ALSO
211.Xr socket 2 ,
212.Xr SYSINIT 9
213.Sh HISTORY
214The
215.Nm
216subsystem first appeared in
217.Bx 4.3
218as the part of the very first
219.Xr socket 2
220API implementation.
221.Pp
222The
223.Nm
224subsystem and this manual page were significantly rewritten in
225.Fx 14 .
226.Sh AUTHORS
227This manual page was written by
228.An Chad David Aq Mt davidc@acns.ab.ca
229and
230.An Gleb Smirnoff Aq Mt glebius@FreeBSD.org .
231