Bug 489483 – GFS2: Add tracepoints

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Bug 489483 - GFS2: Add tracepoints

Summary:	GFS2: Add tracepoints

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	GFS-kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Steve Whitehouse
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Blocks:	501987 579598
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Reported:	2009-03-10 07:56 EDT by Steve Whitehouse
Modified:	2010-04-05 20:29 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2009-09-30 11:09:36 EDT
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Patch to add glocks to blktrace (kernel) (11.13 KB, patch) 2009-03-10 07:58 EDT, Steve Whitehouse	no flags	Details \| Diff
Patch to add glocks to blktrace (userland) (4.39 KB, patch) 2009-03-10 07:59 EDT, Steve Whitehouse	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Steve Whitehouse 2009-03-10 07:56:31 EDT

This is a bug to cover the activity of adding tracepoints to the GFS2 filesystem. Such things will be very useful for both functional test/debugging and performance analysis.

Originally I wrote an extension for blktrace to track glocks and block I/O via the same mechanism. This has already proved itself useful in solving a bug. I've received a suggestion that we should be using the generic tracepoints code rather than trying to tack onto blktrace. That will be ok provided we can maintain relative ordering between glocks and block I/O and provided that no extra overhead is introduced.

In addition there are other places in which we could usefully add tracepoints. Currently those include:

 1. Journalling (tracking blocks going in/out of the journal & writeback)
 2. Block allocation/deallocation

Tracepoints are undergoing rapid development at the moment. It may be wise to wait until after the next merge window in order to continue this development so that the core code has stabilised a bit.

Comment 1 Steve Whitehouse 2009-03-10 07:58:24 EDT

Created attachment 334622 [details]
Patch to add glocks to blktrace (kernel)

Comment 2 Steve Whitehouse 2009-03-10 07:59:07 EDT

Created attachment 334623 [details]
Patch to add glocks to blktrace (userland)

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 08:04:56 EDT

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 Steve Whitehouse 2009-09-30 11:09:36 EDT

Done and already upstream.

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