Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo c71a896154 blktrace: add ftrace plugin ... Impact: New way of using the blktrace infrastructure This drops the requirement of userspace utilities to use the blktrace facility. Configuration is done thru sysfs, adding a "trace" directory to the partition directory where blktrace can be enabled for the associated request_queue. The same filters present in the IOCTL interface are present as sysfs device attributes. The /sys/block/sdX/sdXN/trace/enable file allows tracing without any filters. The other files in this directory: pid, act_mask, start_lba and end_lba can be used with the same meaning as with the IOCTL interface. Using the sysfs interface will only setup the request_queue->blk_trace fields, tracing will only take place when the "blk" tracer is selected via the ftrace interface, as in the following example: To see the trace, one can use the /d/tracing/trace file or the /d/tracign/trace_pipe file, with semantics defined in the ftrace documentation in Documentation/ftrace.txt. [root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491224: 8,1 A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304 kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491227: 8,1 Q R 6367 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491236: 8,1 G RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491239: 8,1 P NS [kjournald] kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491242: 8,1 I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491251: 8,1 D WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491610: 8,1 U WS [kjournald] 1 <idle>-0 [000] 3046.511914: 8,1 C RS 6367 + 8 [6367] [root@f10-1 ~]# The default line context (prefix) format is the one described in the ftrace documentation, with the blktrace specific bits using its existing format, described in blkparse(8). If one wants to have the classic blktrace formatting, this is possible by using: [root@f10-1 ~]# echo blk_classic > /t/trace_options [root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace 8,1 0 3046.491224 305 A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304 8,1 0 3046.491227 305 Q R 6367 + 8 [kjournald] 8,1 0 3046.491236 305 G RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald] 8,1 0 3046.491239 305 P NS [kjournald] 8,1 0 3046.491242 305 I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald] 8,1 0 3046.491251 305 D WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald] 8,1 0 3046.491610 305 U WS [kjournald] 1 8,1 0 3046.511914 0 C RS 6367 + 8 [6367] [root@f10-1 ~]# Using the ftrace standard format allows more flexibility, such as the ability of asking for backtraces via trace_options: [root@f10-1 ~]# echo noblk_classic > /t/trace_options [root@f10-1 ~]# echo stacktrace > /t/trace_options [root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826779: 8,1 A WBS 6375 + 8 <- (8,1) 6312 kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826782: <= submit_bio <= submit_bh <= sync_dirty_buffer <= journal_commit_transaction <= kjournald <= kthread <= child_rip kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826836: 8,1 Q R 6375 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826837: <= generic_make_request <= submit_bio <= submit_bh <= sync_dirty_buffer <= journal_commit_transaction <= kjournald <= kthread Please read the ftrace documentation to use aditional, standardized tracing filters such as /d/tracing/trace_cpumask, etc. See also /d/tracing/trace_mark to add comments in the trace stream, that is equivalent to the /d/block/sdaN/msg interface. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>		2009-01-26 14:40:53 +01:00
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acorn.c	fs/partitions/acorn.c: remove dead code	2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
acorn.h
amiga.c
amiga.h
atari.c
atari.h
check.c	blktrace: add ftrace plugin	2009-01-26 14:40:53 +01:00
check.h	block: replace @ext_minors with GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT	2008-10-09 08:56:08 +02:00
efi.c	fs/partitions/efi: convert to pr_debug	2008-07-25 10:53:44 -07:00
efi.h
ibm.c
ibm.h
karma.c
karma.h
Kconfig
ldm.c
ldm.h
mac.c
mac.h
Makefile
msdos.c
msdos.h
osf.c
osf.h
sgi.c
sgi.h
sun.c
sun.h
sysv68.c
sysv68.h
ultrix.c
ultrix.h