This is very useful for verifying whether the algorithms are working
to our expectaions.
Example output:
# echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/vfs/readahead/enable
# cp test-file /dev/null
# cat /debug/tracing/trace # trimmed output
readahead-initial(dev=0:15, ino=100177, req=0+2, ra=0+4-2, async=0) = 4
readahead-subsequent(dev=0:15, ino=100177, req=2+2, ra=4+8-8, async=1) = 8
readahead-subsequent(dev=0:15, ino=100177, req=4+2, ra=12+16-16, async=1) = 16
readahead-subsequent(dev=0:15, ino=100177, req=12+2, ra=28+32-32, async=1) = 32
readahead-subsequent(dev=0:15, ino=100177, req=28+2, ra=60+60-60, async=1) = 24
readahead-subsequent(dev=0:15, ino=100177, req=60+2, ra=120+60-60, async=1) = 0
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CC: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/vfs.h | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/readahead.c | 5 ++
2 files changed, 69 insertions(+)
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-next/include/trace/events/vfs.h 2011-11-21 17:17:45.000000000 +0800
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
+#define TRACE_SYSTEM vfs
+
+#if !defined(_TRACE_VFS_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
+#define _TRACE_VFS_H
+
+#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
+
+TRACE_EVENT(readahead,
+ TP_PROTO(struct address_space *mapping,
+ pgoff_t offset,
+ unsigned long req_size,
+ unsigned int ra_flags,
+ pgoff_t start,
+ unsigned int size,
+ unsigned int async_size,
+ unsigned int actual),
+
+ TP_ARGS(mapping, offset, req_size,
+ ra_flags, start, size, async_size, actual),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field( dev_t, dev )
+ __field( ino_t, ino )
+ __field( pgoff_t, offset )
+ __field( unsigned long, req_size )
+ __field( unsigned int, pattern )
+ __field( pgoff_t, start )
+ __field( unsigned int, size )
+ __field( unsigned int, async_size )
+ __field( unsigned int, actual )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->dev = mapping->host->i_sb->s_dev;
+ __entry->ino = mapping->host->i_ino;
+ __entry->pattern = ra_pattern(ra_flags);
+ __entry->offset = offset;
+ __entry->req_size = req_size;
+ __entry->start = start;
+ __entry->size = size;
+ __entry->async_size = async_size;
+ __entry->actual = actual;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("readahead-%s(dev=%d:%d, ino=%lu, "
+ "req=%lu+%lu, ra=%lu+%d-%d, async=%d) = %d",
+ ra_pattern_names[__entry->pattern],
+ MAJOR(__entry->dev),
+ MINOR(__entry->dev),
+ __entry->ino,
+ __entry->offset,
+ __entry->req_size,
+ __entry->start,
+ __entry->size,
+ __entry->async_size,
+ __entry->start > __entry->offset,
+ __entry->actual)
+);
+
+#endif /* _TRACE_VFS_H */
+
+/* This part must be outside protection */
+#include <trace/define_trace.h>
--- linux-next.orig/mm/readahead.c 2011-11-21 17:17:45.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/readahead.c 2011-11-21 17:17:49.000000000 +0800
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ static int __init config_readahead_size(
}
early_param("readahead", config_readahead_size);
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/vfs.h>
+
/*
* Initialise a struct file's readahead state. Assumes that the caller has
* memset *ra to zero.
@@ -236,6 +239,8 @@ static void readahead_event(struct addre
start, size, async_size, actual);
}
#endif
+ trace_readahead(mapping, offset, req_size, ra_flags,
+ start, size, async_size, actual);
}
/*
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>