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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2009-10-25 15:37:04 -0700
committerJohn Rigby <john.rigby@linaro.org>2012-03-17 17:04:04 -0600
commit7d49efec6b3263bd66e23cf78e8cb5b0368042e7 (patch)
tree42763f23c5091da47fc8d778a3156aea47e8ca2d /include
parent6ae5e3017467cc525702de00743420735e3f0eda (diff)
UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function
[apw@canonical.com: This has no upstream traction but is used by powertop, so its worth carrying.] PowerTOP would like to be able to show who is keeping the disk busy by dirtying data. The most logical spot for this is in the vfs in the mark_inode_dirty() function. Doing this on the block level is not possible because by the time the IO hits the block layer the guilty party can no longer be found ("kjournald" and "pdflush" are not useful answers to "who caused this file to be dirty). The trace point follows the same logic/style as the block_dump code and pretty much dumps the same data, just not to dmesg (and thus to /var/log/messages) but via the trace events streams. Note: This patch was posted to lkml and might potentially go into 2.6.33 but I have not seen which maintainer will take it. Signed-of-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/trace/events/vfs.h53
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/trace/events/vfs.h b/include/trace/events/vfs.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3c170f893cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/trace/events/vfs.h
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
+#define TRACE_SYSTEM vfs
+
+#if !defined(_TRACE_VFS_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
+#define _TRACE_VFS_H
+
+/*
+ * Tracepoint for dirtying an inode:
+ */
+TRACE_EVENT(dirty_inode,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, struct task_struct *task),
+
+ TP_ARGS(inode, task),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __array( char, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN )
+ __field( pid_t, pid )
+ __array( char, dev, 16 )
+ __array( char, file, 32 )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ if (inode->i_ino || strcmp(inode->i_sb->s_id, "bdev")) {
+ struct dentry *dentry;
+ const char *name = "?";
+
+ dentry = d_find_alias(inode);
+ if (dentry) {
+ spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ name = (const char *) dentry->d_name.name;
+ }
+
+ memcpy(__entry->comm, task->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
+ __entry->pid = task->pid;
+ strlcpy(__entry->file, name, 32);
+ strlcpy(__entry->dev, inode->i_sb->s_id, 16);
+
+ if (dentry) {
+ spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ dput(dentry);
+ }
+ }
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("task=%i (%s) file=%s dev=%s",
+ __entry->pid, __entry->comm, __entry->file, __entry->dev)
+);
+
+#endif /* _TRACE_VFS_H */
+
+/* This part must be outside protection */
+#include <trace/define_trace.h>