Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFS: fix sb->s_id in nfs debug prints

[Myklebust, Trond]

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 23:58 +0530, Vivek Trivedi wrote:
> NFS bdi flush thread in ps output is printed like "flush-<major number
> in decimal>:<minor number in decimal>"
> For example:
> $ ps aux | grep flush
>  2079 root         0 SW   [flush-0:18]
>                                  ^^^^
> 
> nfs_bdi_register()
> ==> bdi_register_dev()
> ==> bdi_register(bdi, NULL, "%u:%u", MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev));
>                              ^^^^^
> 
> However, NFS sb->s_id store major:minor number in hex:
> 
> nfs_initialise_sb()
> ==>         snprintf(sb->s_id, sizeof(sb->s_id),
>                  "%x:%x", MAJOR(sb->s_dev), MINOR(sb->s_dev));
>                   ^^^^^
> 
> If we enable nfs debug prints using command:
> $ rpcdebug -m nfs -s all
> 
> write to a file:
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=<NFS Mount>/testfile.txt bs=32768 count=1
> 
> Without Patch:
> [ 2431.032000] NFS:     0 initiated write call (req 0:12/40, 32768 bytes
> @ offset 0)                                         ^^^^
> 
> With Patch:
> [ 2431.032000] NFS:     0 initiated write call (req 0:18/40, 32768 bytes
> @ offset 0)                                         ^^^^
> 
> We should store NFS "s->s_id" in decimal to avoid confusion between NFS
> flush thread name(in ps output) and NFS debug prints.

Why do we care? The s_id is entirely filesystem-specific so it shouldn't
be compared to the properties of VFS objects anyway.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com

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