Re: [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: drop trace_btrfs_all_work_done() from normal_work_helper()

From: David Sterba
Date: Wed Dec 21 2016 - 09:09:11 EST


On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 04:45:06PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>
>
> At 12/21/2016 04:28 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2016-12-21 08:33:03 [+0800], Qu Wenruo wrote:
> >> The trace point only uses the pointer, and this helps us to pair with
> >> btrfs_work_queued/sched.
> >
> > | /* For situiations that the work is freed */
> > | DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(btrfs__work__done,
> > |
> > | TP_PROTO(struct btrfs_work *work),
> > |
> > | TP_ARGS(work),
> > |
> > | TP_STRUCT__entry_btrfs(
> > | __field( void *, work )
> > | ),
> > |
> > | TP_fast_assign_btrfs(btrfs_work_owner(work),
> > | __entry->work = work;
> > | ),
> > |
> > | TP_printk_btrfs("work->%p", __entry->work)
> > | );
> >
> > and btrfs_work_owner exapnds to:
> >
> > | struct btrfs_fs_info *
> > | btrfs_work_owner(struct btrfs_work *work)
> > | {
> > | return work->wq->fs_info;
> > | }
> >
> > voilà
>
> Oh I got it, thanks very much.
>
> The btrfs_work_owner() is newly introduced, no wonder I didn't know that.
>
>
> I think we can fix it by extracting fs_info pointer before running the
> work, and using the extracted one in the trace point.

That sounds like an easy fix to preserve the tracepoint.