Today users have no easy way to correlate kernel log messages for storage devices across reboots, device dynamic add/remove, or when the device is physically or logically moved from from system to system. This is due to the existing log IDs which identify how the device is attached and not a unique ID of what is attached. Additionally, even when the attachment hasn't changed, it's not always obvious which messages belong to the device as the different areas in the storage stack use different identifiers, eg. (sda, sata1.00, sd 0:0:0:0). This change addresses this by adding a unique ID to each log message. It couples the existing structured key/value logging capability and VPD 0x83 device identification. An example of logs filtered for a specific device: # journalctl "_KERNEL_DURABLE_NAME"="t10.ATA QEMU HARDDISK QM00005" \ > | cut -c 25- | fmt -t ... l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 125829120 512-byte logical blocks: (64.4 GB/60.0 GiB) l: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk l: sata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2000000 SErr 0x2000000 action 0x6 frozen l: sata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED l: sata1.00: cmd 60/08:c8:08:98:53/00:00:05:00:00/40 tag 25 ncq dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) l: sata1.00: status: { DRDY } l: sata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 l: sata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#25 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#25 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#25 Add. Sense: Unaligned write command l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#25 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 05 53 98 08 00 00 08 00 l: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 89364488 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 l: XFS (sda5): Mounting V5 Filesystem l: XFS (sda5): Ending clean mount l: XFS (sda5): Unmounting Filesystem l: sata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x200000 SErr 0x200000 action 0x6 frozen l: sata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED l: sata1.00: cmd 60/08:a8:08:98:53/00:00:05:00:00/40 tag 21 ncq dma 4096 in res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) l: sata1.00: status: { DRDY } l: sata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#21 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#21 Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#21 Add. Sense: Unaligned write command l: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#21 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 05 53 98 08 00 00 08 00 l: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 89364488 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 l: sata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x20 SErr 0x20 action 0x6 frozen l: sata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED l: sata1.00: cmd 60/08:28:08:98:53/00:00:05:00:00/40 tag 5 ncq dma 4096 in res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) l: sata1.00: status: { DRDY } l: sata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 l: sata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x200000 SErr 0x200000 action 0x6 frozen l: sata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED l: sata1.00: cmd 60/08:a8:08:98:53/00:00:05:00:00/40 tag 21 ncq dma 4096 in res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) l: sata1.00: status: { DRDY } l: sata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 l: sata1.00: NCQ disabled due to excessive errors l: sata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x40000 SErr 0x40000 action 0x6 frozen l: sata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED l: sata1.00: cmd 60/08:90:08:98:53/00:00:05:00:00/40 tag 18 ncq dma 4096 in res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) l: sata1.00: status: { DRDY } l: sata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 l: XFS (sda5): Mounting V5 Filesystem l: XFS (sda5): Ending clean mount l: XFS (sda5): Unmounting Filesystem This change is incomplete. With the plethora of different logging techniques utilized in the kernel for different drivers, file systems, etc. it will take some coordinated effort and additional changes. I tried a few different approaches, to cover as much as I could without resorting to changing every print statement in all the storage layers, but maybe there is a better, more elegant approach? I believe having this functionality is very useful and important for system configurations of all sizes. I mentioned this change briefly in: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/30f29fe6-8445-0016-8cdc-3ef99d43fbf5@xxxxxxxxxx/ The series is based on 5.4. -Tony Tony Asleson (9): lib/string: Add function to trim duplicate WS printk: Bring back printk_emit printk: Add printk_emit_ratelimited macro struct device_type: Add function callback durable_name block: Add support functions for persistent durable name create_syslog_header: Add durable name print_req_error: Add persistent durable name ata_dev_printk: Add durable name to output __xfs_printk: Add durable name to output block/blk-core.c | 11 ++++++++++- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/base/core.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 1 + fs/xfs/xfs_message.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ include/linux/device.h | 4 ++++ include/linux/printk.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ include/linux/string.h | 2 ++ include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 3 +++ kernel/printk/printk.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ lib/string.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 12 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.21.0