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Message-ID: <20251003073111.GD12624@lst.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 09:31:11 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@....com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrace@...r.kernel.org,
John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@....com>,
Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@....com>,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@...dia.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/15] blktrace: add definitions for struct
blk_io_trace2
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 05:02:25PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Add definitions for the extended version of the blktrace protocol using a
> wider action type to be able to record new actions in the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@....com>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/blktrace_api.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/blktrace_api.h b/include/uapi/linux/blktrace_api.h
> index a3b1f35ac026..d58ef484de49 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/blktrace_api.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/blktrace_api.h
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ enum blktrace_notify {
>
> #define BLK_IO_TRACE_MAGIC 0x65617400
> #define BLK_IO_TRACE_VERSION 0x07
> +#define BLK_IO_TRACE2_VERSION 0x08
>
> /*
> * The trace itself
> @@ -113,6 +114,21 @@ struct blk_io_trace {
> /* cgroup id will be stored here if exists */
> };
>
> +struct blk_io_trace2 {
> + __u32 magic; /* MAGIC << 8 | BLK_IO_TRACE2_VERSION */
> + __u32 sequence; /* event number */
> + __u64 time; /* in nanoseconds */
> + __u64 sector; /* disk offset */
> + __u32 bytes; /* transfer length */
> + __u32 pid; /* who did it */
> + __u64 action; /* what happened */
> + __u32 device; /* device number */
> + __u32 cpu; /* on what cpu did it happen */
> + __u16 error; /* completion error */
> + __u16 pdu_len; /* length of data after this trace */
> + __u8 pad[8];
This will cause mismatching sizes between x86_32 and other
architectures because the size is not 8-byte aligned. You'll need
to add or remove 4 bytes of padding to ensure that.
I really wish we could have good helpers to check for that.
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