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<title>linux-toradex.git/mm/bounce.c, branch v3.2.3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</published>
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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<entry>
<title>mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T13:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-16T06:01:52+00:00</published>
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The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL
macro variants.  They are not using core modular infrastructure
and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL
macro variants.  They are not using core modular infrastructure
and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: initialize the bounce pool if high memory may be added later</title>
<updated>2011-10-20T19:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-20T19:24:30+00:00</published>
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init_emergency_pool() does not create the page pool for bouncing block
requests if the current count of high pages is zero.  If high memory
may be added later (either via memory hotplug or a balloon driver in a
virtualized system) then a oops occurs if a request with a high page
need bouncing because the pool does not exist.

So, always create the pool if memory hotplug is enabled and change the
test so it's valid even if all high pages are currently in the balloon
(the balloon drivers adjust totalhigh_pages but not max_pfn).

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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init_emergency_pool() does not create the page pool for bouncing block
requests if the current count of high pages is zero.  If high memory
may be added later (either via memory hotplug or a balloon driver in a
virtualized system) then a oops occurs if a request with a high page
need bouncing because the pool does not exist.

So, always create the pool if memory hotplug is enabled and change the
test so it's valid even if all high pages are currently in the balloon
(the balloon drivers adjust totalhigh_pages but not max_pfn).

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec()</title>
<updated>2010-09-10T01:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gary King</name>
<email>gking@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-09T23:38:05+00:00</published>
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I have been seeing problems on Tegra 2 (ARMv7 SMP) systems with HIGHMEM
enabled on 2.6.35 (plus some patches targetted at 2.6.36 to perform cache
maintenance lazily), and the root cause appears to be that the mm bouncing
code is calling flush_dcache_page before it copies the bounce buffer into
the bio.

The bounced page needs to be flushed after data is copied into it, to
ensure that architecture implementations can synchronize instruction and
data caches if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Gary King &lt;gking@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I have been seeing problems on Tegra 2 (ARMv7 SMP) systems with HIGHMEM
enabled on 2.6.35 (plus some patches targetted at 2.6.36 to perform cache
maintenance lazily), and the root cause appears to be that the mm bouncing
code is calling flush_dcache_page before it copies the bounce buffer into
the bio.

The bounced page needs to be flushed after data is copied into it, to
ensure that architecture implementations can synchronize instruction and
data caches if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Gary King &lt;gking@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h</title>
<updated>2009-06-16T09:19:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-16T09:19:36+00:00</published>
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When porting blktrace to tracepoints, we changed to trace/block.h
for trace prober declarations.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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When porting blktrace to tracepoints, we changed to trace/block.h
for trace prober declarations.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2009-06-11T18:10:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-11T17:52:27+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context-&gt;refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
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* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context-&gt;refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()</title>
<updated>2009-06-09T16:34:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-09T05:43:05+00:00</published>
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TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
  ...

Cons:

  - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
    no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
    no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq-&gt;rq_disk == NULL.

    This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
    But this may change in the future.

  - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
    While blktrace do the convertion just before output.

    Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.

  - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
    has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.

    The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().

I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:

      dd                   dd + ioctl blktrace       dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1     7.36s, 42.7 MB/s     7.50s, 42.0 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2     7.43s, 42.3 MB/s     7.48s, 42.1 MB/s          7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3     7.38s, 42.6 MB/s     7.45s, 42.2 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s

So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.

And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:

 # ls -l -h
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out

Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:

plug:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981:   8,0    P   N [kjournald]

unplug_io:
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052974:   8,0    U   N [kblockd/0] 1

remap:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 &lt;- (8,8) 33384
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085043:   8,0    A   W 102736992 + 8 &lt;- (8,8) 33384

bio_backmerge:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086:   8,0    M   W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]

getrq:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084975:   8,0    G   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953770:   8,0    G   N [bash]
  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]

rq_complete:
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053191:   8,0    C   W 103669040 + 16 [0]

  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953811:   8,0    C   N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]

rq_insert:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084986:   8,0    I   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

Changelog from v2 -&gt; v3:

- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().

Changelog from v1 -&gt; v2:

- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
  to store hex dump of rq-&gt;cmd().

- support large pc requests.

- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.

- some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
  ...

Cons:

  - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
    no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
    no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq-&gt;rq_disk == NULL.

    This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
    But this may change in the future.

  - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
    While blktrace do the convertion just before output.

    Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.

  - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
    has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.

    The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().

I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:

      dd                   dd + ioctl blktrace       dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1     7.36s, 42.7 MB/s     7.50s, 42.0 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2     7.43s, 42.3 MB/s     7.48s, 42.1 MB/s          7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3     7.38s, 42.6 MB/s     7.45s, 42.2 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s

So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.

And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:

 # ls -l -h
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out

Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:

plug:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981:   8,0    P   N [kjournald]

unplug_io:
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052974:   8,0    U   N [kblockd/0] 1

remap:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 &lt;- (8,8) 33384
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085043:   8,0    A   W 102736992 + 8 &lt;- (8,8) 33384

bio_backmerge:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086:   8,0    M   W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]

getrq:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084975:   8,0    G   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953770:   8,0    G   N [bash]
  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]

rq_complete:
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053191:   8,0    C   W 103669040 + 16 [0]

  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953811:   8,0    C   N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]

rq_insert:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084986:   8,0    I   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

Changelog from v2 -&gt; v3:

- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().

Changelog from v1 -&gt; v2:

- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
  to store hex dump of rq-&gt;cmd().

- support large pc requests.

- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.

- some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Use accessor functions for queue limits</title>
<updated>2009-05-22T21:22:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-22T21:17:50+00:00</published>
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Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list</title>
<updated>2008-12-29T07:29:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-23T11:44:19+00:00</published>
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__blk_queue_bounce() relies on a zeroed bio_vec list, since it looks
up arbitrary indexes in the allocated bio. The block layer only
guarentees that added entries are valid, so clear memory after alloc.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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__blk_queue_bounce() relies on a zeroed bio_vec list, since it looks
up arbitrary indexes in the allocated bio. The block layer only
guarentees that added entries are valid, so clear memory after alloc.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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