linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ftrace: add an fsync tracer

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Message-ID: <20081105194326.GA5839@joi>
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 20:43:31 +0100
From:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: add an fsync tracer

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:49:02AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_fsync.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
> +/*
> + * trace fsync calls
> + * Copyright (C) 2008 Intel Corporation
> + *
> + * Based extensively on trace_sched_switch.c
> + * Copyright (C) 2007 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> + *
> + */
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +#include <linux/debugfs.h>
> +#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
> +#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/ftrace.h>
> +#include <trace/fs.h>
> +
> +#include "trace.h"
> +
> +static struct trace_array	*ctx_trace;
> +static int __read_mostly	tracer_enabled;
> +static atomic_t			fsync_ref;
> +
> +static void
> +probe_do_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync)
> +{
> +	char *buffer;
> +	char *err;
> +
> +	if (!atomic_read(&fsync_ref))
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (!tracer_enabled)
> +		return;
> +
> +	buffer = kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!buffer)
> +		return;
> +
> +	memset(buffer, 0, 4096);

kzalloc?

> +	err = d_path(&file->f_path, buffer, 4096);
> +
> +	if (IS_ERR(err))
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	ftrace_printk("Process %s is calling fsync on %s\n",
> +			current->comm, err);

err? not buffer?

> +
> +out:
> +	kfree(buffer);
> +}
> +
> (...)
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