Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 04:29:57 EST


On Wed, Aug 24 2005, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24 2005, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:08:10AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > ...
> > > This isn't msec precision, it's usec. sched_clock() is in ns! I already
> > > decided that msec is too coarse, but usec _should_ be enough.
> >
> > Right you are (I was thinking m-for-micro, not m-for-milli in my head ;)
> > - but still, there doesn't seem to be any reason for that divide-by-1000
> > and reducing the precision in the kernel rather than in userspace, does
> > there? Doing it the other way means you wont ever have to worry about
> > whether it is/isn't sufficient precision for all possible block devices,
> > and the precision the tool displays will just be a userspace decision.
>
> I was just worried about wrapping of ->time, but I did make it a 64-bit
> unit. So I guess we could go to nsec granularity, there should be plenty
> [*] of space. I'll change that too, I'll post an update version later.

Ok, updated version. The tool at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/tools/blktrace.c

has been updated as well, the protocol version was increased to
accomodate the trace structure changes.

Changes:

- Include full nsec resolution in ->time
- Bump ->pid to full 32-bit
- Include barrier and sync request options
- Move requeue to seperate trace category

Patch attached is against 2.6.13-rc6-mm2. Still a good idea to apply the
relayfs read update from the previous mail [*] as well.

[*] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112480046405961&w=2

--
Jens Axboe

diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Kconfig linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Kconfig
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Kconfig 2005-08-24 13:17:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Kconfig 2005-08-24 11:52:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -419,6 +419,14 @@ config LBD
your machine, or if you want to have a raid or loopback device
bigger than 2TB. Otherwise say N.

+config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
+ bool "Support for tracing block io actions"
+ select RELAYFS
+ help
+ Say Y here, if you want to be able to trace the block layer actions
+ on a given queue.
+
+
config CDROM_PKTCDVD
tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
depends on !UML
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Makefile linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Makefile
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Makefile 2005-08-07 20:18:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/Makefile 2005-08-24 11:52:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -45,3 +45,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VIODASD) += viodasd.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8) += sx8.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB) += ub.o

+obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE) += blktrace.o
+
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/blktrace.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/blktrace.c
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/blktrace.c 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/blktrace.c 2005-08-24 13:22:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+#include <linux/config.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/blktrace.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+
+void __blk_add_trace(struct blk_trace *bt, sector_t sector, int bytes,
+ int rw, u32 what, int error, int pdu_len, char *pdu_data)
+{
+ struct blk_io_trace t;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ if (rw & (1 << BIO_RW_BARRIER))
+ what |= BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_BARRIER);
+ if (rw & (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC))
+ what |= BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_SYNC);
+
+ if (rw & WRITE)
+ what |= BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_WRITE);
+ else
+ what |= BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_READ);
+
+ if (((bt->act_mask << BLK_TC_SHIFT) & what) == 0)
+ return;
+
+ t.magic = BLK_IO_TRACE_MAGIC | BLK_IO_TRACE_VERSION;
+ t.sequence = atomic_add_return(1, &bt->sequence);
+ t.time = sched_clock();
+ t.sector = sector;
+ t.bytes = bytes;
+ t.action = what;
+ t.pid = current->pid;
+ t.error = error;
+ t.pdu_len = pdu_len;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ __relay_write(bt->rchan, &t, sizeof(t));
+ if (pdu_len)
+ __relay_write(bt->rchan, pdu_data, pdu_len);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+int blk_stop_trace(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ request_queue_t *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+ struct blk_trace *bt = NULL;
+ int ret = -EINVAL;
+
+ if (!q)
+ return -ENXIO;
+
+ down(&bdev->bd_sem);
+
+ spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+ if (q->blk_trace) {
+ bt = q->blk_trace;
+ q->blk_trace = NULL;
+ ret = 0;
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+
+ up(&bdev->bd_sem);
+
+ if (bt) {
+ relay_close(bt->rchan);
+ kfree(bt);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+int blk_start_trace(struct block_device *bdev, char __user *arg)
+{
+ request_queue_t *q = bdev_get_queue(bdev);
+ struct blk_user_trace_setup buts;
+ struct blk_trace *bt;
+ char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ if (!q)
+ return -ENXIO;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&buts, arg, sizeof(buts)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ if (!buts.buf_size || !buts.buf_nr)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ strcpy(buts.name, bdevname(bdev, b));
+
+ if (copy_to_user(arg, &buts, sizeof(buts)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ down(&bdev->bd_sem);
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ if (q->blk_trace)
+ goto err;
+
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ bt = kmalloc(sizeof(*bt), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!bt)
+ goto err;
+
+ atomic_set(&bt->sequence, 0);
+
+ bt->rchan = relay_open(bdevname(bdev, b), NULL, buts.buf_size,
+ buts.buf_nr, NULL);
+ ret = -EIO;
+ if (!bt->rchan)
+ goto err;
+
+ bt->act_mask = buts.act_mask;
+ if (!bt->act_mask)
+ bt->act_mask = (u16) -1;
+
+ spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+ q->blk_trace = bt;
+ spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+ ret = 0;
+err:
+ up(&bdev->bd_sem);
+ return ret;
+}
+
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/elevator.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/elevator.c
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/elevator.c 2005-08-07 20:18:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/elevator.c 2005-08-24 11:52:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/blktrace.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>

@@ -371,6 +372,9 @@ struct request *elv_next_request(request
int ret;

while ((rq = __elv_next_request(q)) != NULL) {
+
+ blk_add_trace_rq(q, rq, BLK_TA_ISSUE);
+
/*
* just mark as started even if we don't start it, a request
* that has been delayed should not be passed by new incoming
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ioctl.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ioctl.c
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ioctl.c 2005-08-07 20:18:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ioctl.c 2005-08-24 11:52:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
+#include <linux/blktrace.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user *arg)
@@ -188,6 +189,10 @@ static int blkdev_locked_ioctl(struct fi
return put_ulong(arg, bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9);
case BLKGETSIZE64:
return put_u64(arg, bdev->bd_inode->i_size);
+ case BLKSTARTTRACE:
+ return blk_start_trace(bdev, (char __user *) arg);
+ case BLKSTOPTRACE:
+ return blk_stop_trace(bdev);
}
return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
}
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c 2005-08-24 13:17:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c 2005-08-24 11:52:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/blktrace.h>

/*
* for max sense size
@@ -1625,6 +1626,12 @@ void blk_cleanup_queue(request_queue_t *
if (q->queue_tags)
__blk_queue_free_tags(q);

+ if (q->blk_trace) {
+ relay_close(q->blk_trace->rchan);
+ kfree(q->blk_trace);
+ q->blk_trace = NULL;
+ }
+
blk_queue_ordered(q, QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE);

kmem_cache_free(requestq_cachep, q);
@@ -1971,6 +1978,8 @@ rq_starved:

rq_init(q, rq);
rq->rl = rl;
+
+ blk_add_trace_generic(q, bio, rw, BLK_TA_GETRQ);
out:
return rq;
}
@@ -1999,6 +2008,8 @@ static struct request *get_request_wait(
if (!rq) {
struct io_context *ioc;

+ blk_add_trace_generic(q, bio, rw, BLK_TA_SLEEPRQ);
+
__generic_unplug_device(q);
spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
io_schedule();
@@ -2052,6 +2063,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_get_request);
*/
void blk_requeue_request(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
{
+ blk_add_trace_rq(q, rq, BLK_TA_REQUEUE);
+
if (blk_rq_tagged(rq))
blk_queue_end_tag(q, rq);

@@ -2665,6 +2678,8 @@ static int __make_request(request_queue_
if (!q->back_merge_fn(q, req, bio))
break;

+ blk_add_trace_bio(q, bio, BLK_TA_BACKMERGE);
+
req->biotail->bi_next = bio;
req->biotail = bio;
req->nr_sectors = req->hard_nr_sectors += nr_sectors;
@@ -2680,6 +2695,8 @@ static int __make_request(request_queue_
if (!q->front_merge_fn(q, req, bio))
break;

+ blk_add_trace_bio(q, bio, BLK_TA_FRONTMERGE);
+
bio->bi_next = req->bio;
req->bio = bio;

@@ -2705,6 +2722,8 @@ static int __make_request(request_queue_
}

get_rq:
+ blk_add_trace_bio(q, bio, BLK_TA_QUEUE);
+
/*
* Grab a free request. This is might sleep but can not fail.
* Returns with the queue unlocked.
@@ -2981,6 +3000,10 @@ end_io:
blk_partition_remap(bio);

ret = q->make_request_fn(q, bio);
+
+ if (ret)
+ blk_add_trace_bio(q, bio, BLK_TA_QUEUE);
+
} while (ret);
}

@@ -3099,6 +3122,8 @@ static int __end_that_request_first(stru
int total_bytes, bio_nbytes, error, next_idx = 0;
struct bio *bio;

+ blk_add_trace_rq(req->q, req, BLK_TA_COMPLETE);
+
/*
* extend uptodate bool to allow < 0 value to be direct io error
*/
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blkdev.h linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blkdev.h
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blkdev.h 2005-08-24 13:17:35.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blkdev.h 2005-08-24 11:52:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ typedef struct request_queue request_que
struct elevator_queue;
typedef struct elevator_queue elevator_t;
struct request_pm_state;
+struct blk_trace;

#define BLKDEV_MIN_RQ 4
#define BLKDEV_MAX_RQ 128 /* Default maximum */
@@ -412,6 +413,8 @@ struct request_queue
*/
struct request *flush_rq;
unsigned char ordered;
+
+ struct blk_trace *blk_trace;
};

enum {
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blktrace.h linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blktrace.h
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blktrace.h 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/blktrace.h 2005-08-24 13:22:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+#ifndef BLKTRACE_H
+#define BLKTRACE_H
+
+#include <linux/config.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/relayfs_fs.h>
+
+/*
+ * Trace categories
+ */
+enum {
+ BLK_TC_READ = 1 << 0, /* reads */
+ BLK_TC_WRITE = 1 << 1, /* writes */
+ BLK_TC_BARRIER = 1 << 2, /* barrier */
+ BLK_TC_SYNC = 1 << 3, /* barrier */
+ BLK_TC_QUEUE = 1 << 4, /* queueing/merging */
+ BLK_TC_REQUEUE = 1 << 5, /* requeueing */
+ BLK_TC_ISSUE = 1 << 6, /* issue */
+ BLK_TC_COMPLETE = 1 << 7, /* completions */
+ BLK_TC_FS = 1 << 8, /* fs requests */
+ BLK_TC_PC = 1 << 9, /* pc requests */
+
+ BLK_TC_END = 1 << 15, /* only 16-bits, reminder */
+};
+
+#define BLK_TC_SHIFT (16)
+#define BLK_TC_ACT(act) ((act) << BLK_TC_SHIFT)
+
+/*
+ * Basic trace actions
+ */
+enum {
+ __BLK_TA_QUEUE = 1, /* queued */
+ __BLK_TA_BACKMERGE, /* back merged to existing rq */
+ __BLK_TA_FRONTMERGE, /* front merge to existing rq */
+ __BLK_TA_GETRQ, /* allocated new request */
+ __BLK_TA_SLEEPRQ, /* sleeping on rq allocation */
+ __BLK_TA_REQUEUE, /* request requeued */
+ __BLK_TA_ISSUE, /* sent to driver */
+ __BLK_TA_COMPLETE, /* completed by driver */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Trace actions in full. Additionally, read or write is masked
+ */
+#define BLK_TA_QUEUE (__BLK_TA_QUEUE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_BACKMERGE (__BLK_TA_BACKMERGE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_FRONTMERGE (__BLK_TA_FRONTMERGE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_GETRQ (__BLK_TA_GETRQ | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_SLEEPRQ (__BLK_TA_SLEEPRQ | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_REQUEUE (__BLK_TA_REQUEUE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_REQUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_ISSUE (__BLK_TA_ISSUE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_ISSUE))
+#define BLK_TA_COMPLETE (__BLK_TA_COMPLETE| BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_COMPLETE))
+
+#define BLK_IO_TRACE_MAGIC 0x65617400
+#define BLK_IO_TRACE_VERSION 0x02
+
+/*
+ * The trace itself
+ */
+struct blk_io_trace {
+ u32 magic; /* MAGIC << 8 | version */
+ u32 sequence; /* event number */
+ u64 time; /* in microseconds */
+ u64 sector; /* disk offset */
+ u32 bytes; /* transfer length */
+ u32 action; /* what happened */
+ u32 pid; /* who did it */
+ u16 error; /* completion error */
+ u16 pdu_len; /* length of data after this trace */
+};
+
+struct blk_trace {
+ struct rchan *rchan;
+ atomic_t sequence;
+ u16 act_mask;
+};
+
+/*
+ * User setup structure passed with BLKSTARTTRACE
+ */
+struct blk_user_trace_setup {
+ char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; /* output */
+ u16 act_mask; /* input */
+ u32 buf_size; /* input */
+ u32 buf_nr; /* input */
+};
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE)
+extern int blk_start_trace(struct block_device *, char __user *);
+extern int blk_stop_trace(struct block_device *);
+extern void __blk_add_trace(struct blk_trace *, sector_t, int, int, u32, int, int, char *);
+
+static inline void blk_add_trace_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
+ u32 what)
+{
+ struct blk_trace *bt = q->blk_trace;
+ int rw = rq->flags & 0x07;
+
+ if (likely(!bt))
+ return;
+
+ if (blk_pc_request(rq)) {
+ what |= BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_PC);
+ __blk_add_trace(bt, 0, rq->data_len, rw, what, rq->errors, sizeof(rq->cmd), rq->cmd);
+ } else {
+ what |= BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_FS);
+ __blk_add_trace(bt, rq->hard_sector, rq->hard_nr_sectors << 9, rw, what, rq->errors, 0, NULL);
+ }
+}
+
+static inline void blk_add_trace_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
+ u32 what)
+{
+ struct blk_trace *bt = q->blk_trace;
+
+ if (likely(!bt))
+ return;
+
+ __blk_add_trace(bt, bio->bi_sector, bio->bi_size, bio->bi_rw, what, !bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE), 0, NULL);
+}
+
+static inline void blk_add_trace_generic(struct request_queue *q,
+ struct bio *bio, int rw, u32 what)
+{
+ struct blk_trace *bt = q->blk_trace;
+
+ if (likely(!bt))
+ return;
+
+ if (bio)
+ blk_add_trace_bio(q, bio, what);
+ else
+ __blk_add_trace(bt, 0, 0, rw, what, 0, 0, NULL);
+}
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE */
+#define blk_start_trace(bdev, arg) (-EINVAL)
+#define blk_stop_trace(bdev) (-EINVAL)
+#define blk_add_trace_rq(q, rq, what) do { } while (0)
+#define blk_add_trace_bio(q, rq, what) do { } while (0)
+#define blk_add_trace_generic(q, rq, rw, what) do { } while (0)
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE */
+
+#endif
diff -urpN -X linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/Documentation/dontdiff /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/fs.h linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/fs.h
--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/fs.h 2005-08-24 13:17:35.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/include/linux/fs.h 2005-08-24 11:52:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
#define BLKBSZGET _IOR(0x12,112,size_t)
#define BLKBSZSET _IOW(0x12,113,size_t)
#define BLKGETSIZE64 _IOR(0x12,114,size_t) /* return device size in bytes (u64 *arg) */
+#define BLKSTARTTRACE _IOWR(0x12,115,struct blk_user_trace_setup)
+#define BLKSTOPTRACE _IO(0x12,116)

#define BMAP_IOCTL 1 /* obsolete - kept for compatibility */
#define FIBMAP _IO(0x00,1) /* bmap access */