[PATCH 5/9] writeback: add more tracepoints

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jan 10 2012 - 13:30:17 EST


Add tracepoints for page dirtying, writeback_single_inode start, inode
dirtying and writeback. For the latter two inode events, a pair of
events are defined to denote start and end of the operations (the
starting one has _start suffix and the one w/o suffix happens after
the operation is complete). These inode ops are FS specific and can
be non-trivial and having enclosing tracepoints is useful for external
tracers.

This is part of tracepoint additions to improve visiblity into
dirtying / writeback operations for io tracer and userland.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 16 +++++-
include/trace/events/writeback.h | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +
3 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index a97cb49..ace4a45 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -298,8 +298,14 @@ static void queue_io(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct wb_writeback_work *work)

static int write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
- if (inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode && !is_bad_inode(inode))
- return inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode(inode, wbc);
+ int ret;
+
+ if (inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode && !is_bad_inode(inode)) {
+ trace_writeback_write_inode_start(inode, wbc);
+ ret = inode->i_sb->s_op->write_inode(inode, wbc);
+ trace_writeback_write_inode(inode, wbc);
+ return ret;
+ }
return 0;
}

@@ -380,6 +386,8 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb,
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);

+ trace_writeback_single_inode_start(inode, wbc, nr_to_write);
+
ret = do_writepages(mapping, wbc);

/*
@@ -1037,8 +1045,12 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags)
* dirty the inode itself
*/
if (flags & (I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) {
+ trace_writeback_dirty_inode_start(inode, flags);
+
if (sb->s_op->dirty_inode)
sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, flags);
+
+ trace_writeback_dirty_inode(inode, flags);
}

/*
diff --git a/include/trace/events/writeback.h b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
index 99d1d0d..c8fc9d9 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
@@ -33,6 +33,112 @@

struct wb_writeback_work;

+TRACE_EVENT(writeback_dirty_page,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping),
+
+ TP_ARGS(page, mapping),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry (
+ __array(char, name, 32)
+ __field(unsigned long, ino)
+ __field(pgoff_t, index)
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ strncpy(__entry->name,
+ mapping ? dev_name(mapping->backing_dev_info->dev) : "(unknown)", 32);
+ __entry->ino = mapping ? mapping->host->i_ino : 0;
+ __entry->index = page->index;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("bdi %s: ino=%lu index=%lu",
+ __entry->name,
+ __entry->ino,
+ __entry->index
+ )
+);
+
+DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_dirty_inode_template,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, int flags),
+
+ TP_ARGS(inode, flags),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry (
+ __array(char, name, 32)
+ __field(unsigned long, ino)
+ __field(unsigned long, flags)
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ strncpy(__entry->name,
+ dev_name(inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info->dev), 32);
+ __entry->ino = inode->i_ino;
+ __entry->flags = flags;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("bdi %s: ino=%lu flags=%s",
+ __entry->name,
+ __entry->ino,
+ show_inode_state(__entry->flags)
+ )
+);
+
+DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_dirty_inode_template, writeback_dirty_inode_start,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, int flags),
+
+ TP_ARGS(inode, flags)
+);
+
+DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_dirty_inode_template, writeback_dirty_inode,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, int flags),
+
+ TP_ARGS(inode, flags)
+);
+
+DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_write_inode_template,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc),
+
+ TP_ARGS(inode, wbc),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry (
+ __array(char, name, 32)
+ __field(unsigned long, ino)
+ __field(int, sync_mode)
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ strncpy(__entry->name,
+ dev_name(inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info->dev), 32);
+ __entry->ino = inode->i_ino;
+ __entry->sync_mode = wbc->sync_mode;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("bdi %s: ino=%lu mode=%d",
+ __entry->name,
+ __entry->ino,
+ __entry->sync_mode
+ )
+);
+
+DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_write_inode_template, writeback_write_inode_start,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc),
+
+ TP_ARGS(inode, wbc)
+);
+
+DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_write_inode_template, writeback_write_inode,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc),
+
+ TP_ARGS(inode, wbc)
+);
+
DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_work_class,
TP_PROTO(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct wb_writeback_work *work),
TP_ARGS(bdi, work),
@@ -447,6 +553,13 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_single_inode_template, writeback_single_inode_requeue,
TP_ARGS(inode, wbc, nr_to_write)
);

+DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_single_inode_template, writeback_single_inode_start,
+ TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc,
+ unsigned long nr_to_write),
+ TP_ARGS(inode, wbc, nr_to_write)
+);
+
DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_single_inode_template, writeback_single_inode,
TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode,
struct writeback_control *wbc,
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 8616ef3..4cf8c6d9 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1735,6 +1735,8 @@ int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
*/
void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
{
+ trace_writeback_dirty_page(page, mapping);
+
if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
--
1.7.3.1

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