linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET] block: improve tracepoints, take#2

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:02:28 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chavey@...gle.com,
	fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] block: improve tracepoints, take#2

On Fri, Jan 11 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:
> drivers
> triggering them manually and adds more buffer / block / writeback TPs.
> These improve visibility in general and are already in use in google.
> 
> This patchset contains the following five patches.
> 
> 0001-block-add-missing-block_bio_complete-tracepoint.patch
> 0002-block-add-req-to-bio_-front-back-_merge-tracepoints.patch
> 0003-buffer-make-touch_buffer-an-exported-function.patch
> 0004-block-add-block_-touch-dirty-_buffer-tracepoint.patch
> 0005-writeback-add-more-tracepoints.patch
> 
> It's based on top of v3.8-rc2 and also available in the following git
> branch.

Applied (with Jan's review on the writeback side). Since we now have
buffer dirtying in the proper traces, it'd be really nice to deprecate
the ancient block_dump and phase it out of the tree...

-- 
Jens Axboe

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