Re: Report in ata_scsi_port_error_handler()

[Byungchul Park]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 01:33:18PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:09:14 -0800
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Byungchul, could you fix those two issues? Some of your reports may
> > well be entirely valid, but the hard-to-read hex offsets and the
> > knowledge that at least some of them are confused about how
> > prepare_to_wait -> wait actually works makes the motivation to look at
> > the details much less..
> 
> Hi Byungchul,
> 
> I'm not sure what your tool is using to attach to the kernel to analyze the
> events (perhaps tracepoints?). But you can have the prepare_to_wait event
> just flag the task is about to wait, and then attach to the schedule
> (sched_switch) event to denote that it actually waited.
> 
> Of course have the finish_wait() clear the flag.

(Sorry for late reply, which was because of my email client issue.)

Thank you for the hint. However, unfortunately, I didn't use tracepoint
for that. However, the key idea is the thing that I should take!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks,
Byungchul

> 
> -- Steve