Re: [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: drop trace_btrfs_all_work_done() from normal_work_helper()

[Qu Wenruo]

At 12/21/2016 04:28 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2016-12-21 08:33:03 [+0800], Qu Wenruo wrote:
> > The trace point only uses the pointer, and this helps us to pair with
> > btrfs_work_queued/sched.
>
> | /* For situiations that the work is freed */
> | DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(btrfs__work__done,
> |
> |         TP_PROTO(struct btrfs_work *work),
> |
> |         TP_ARGS(work),
> |
> |         TP_STRUCT__entry_btrfs(
> |                 __field(        void *, work                    )
> |         ),
> |
> |         TP_fast_assign_btrfs(btrfs_work_owner(work),
> |                 __entry->work           = work;
> |         ),
> |
> |         TP_printk_btrfs("work->%p", __entry->work)
> | );
>
> and btrfs_work_owner exapnds to:
>
> | struct btrfs_fs_info *
> | btrfs_work_owner(struct btrfs_work *work)
> | {
> |         return work->wq->fs_info;
> | }
>
> voilÃ

Oh I got it, thanks very much.

The btrfs_work_owner() is newly introduced, no wonder I didn't know that.


I think we can fix it by extracting fs_info pointer before running the 
work, and using the extracted one in the trace point.

Thanks,
Qu


> > But I still don't understand why backtrace is triggered.
> > Since we're just recording a pointer, not touching it.
> >
> > Would you please explain the problem with more details on how it trigger the
> > problem?
>
> enabled all events played with the fs which was just an upgrade and git
> tree sync + checkout so nothing special.
>
> > > So I think we should either remove the tracepoint completely or change
> > > the arguments to take something else than a potentially freed 'work'.
> >
> > I'm mostly OK to remove the tracepoint, but such all_workd_done() trace
> > should still help to determine if it's a workqueue stalled.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Qu
>
> Sebastian
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