linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][v3] blktrace: conversion to tracepoints

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Message-ID: <20081030111144.GQ31673@kernel.dk>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:11:45 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v3] blktrace: conversion to tracepoints

On Thu, Oct 30 2008, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:31:34AM +0100, Jens Axboe escreveu:
> > On Wed, Oct 29 2008, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Em Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:18:55PM +0100, Jens Axboe escreveu:
> > > > > 	Feel free to point any disgusting aspect, perhaps there is at
> > > > > least one to warn me about fixing 8-)
> > > > 
> > > > You my as well pass the members separately now that it's a specific call
> > > > anyway, to avoid doing the calculation when tracing is disabled.
> > > > 
> > > > Patch looks straight forward. Perhaps it would be cleaner to use an
> > > > atomic type for the reference?
> > > 
> > > Done and made the old pdu_int + NULL bio (trace_block_unplug_{io,timer})
> > > functions to receive just the request_queue.
> > > 
> > > Found and fixed a bug in the process:
> > > 
> > > In v2 we had:
> > > 
> > > +       unregister_trace_block_rq_insert(blk_add_trace_rq_insert);
> > > +       unregister_trace_block_rq_insert(blk_add_trace_rq_abort);
> > > 
> > > Where it should have been:
> > > 
> > > +       unregister_trace_block_rq_insert(blk_add_trace_rq_insert);
> > > +       unregister_trace_block_rq_abort(blk_add_trace_rq_abort);
> > > 
> > > c'n'p roblem!
> > > 
> > > Also removed the leftover tracepoint_synchronize_unregister macro, it
> > > was already merged righfully as an inline function.
> > > 
> > > Everything should be rock solid now 8)
> > 
> > I'll apply this for 2.6.29. I'm assuming you have tested this as well?
> 
> Yes, I tested it, run 'btrace /dev/sda' several times, while doing a
> 45 GB backup using rsync over NFS, etc. So it should have exercised the
> tracepoints use and repeated registrater/unregister cycles.

Awesome, just wanted to know what level of testing you had done (from
"none" to "doesn't crash" to "actually works"), so thanks for that.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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