Re: [PATCH v2] block: trace completion of all bios.

[NeilBrown]

On Thu, Mar 23 2017, Ming Lei wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 05:29:02PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>> 
>>  /**
>> + * bio_endio_notrace - end I/O on a bio without tracing
>> + * @bio:	bio
>> + *
>> + * Description:
>> + *   bio_endio_notrace() will end I/O on the whole bio.
>> + *   bio_endio_notrace() should only be call if a completion trace
>> + *   event is not needed.  This can be the case if a request-level
>> + *   completion event has already been generated, if the bio is
>> + *   being completed early, before it was even queued.
>> + *
>> + **/
>> +void bio_endio_notrace(struct bio *bio)
>> +{
>> +again:
...
>> +
>> +	if (bio->bi_bdev)
>> +		trace_block_bio_complete(bdev_get_queue(bio->bi_bdev),
>> +					 bio, bio->bi_error);
>
> The notrace version still traces?

Ugh.  Thanks :-(

>
>> +	if (bio->bi_end_io)
>> +		bio->bi_end_io(bio);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_endio_notrace);
>
> It isn't a good idea to duplicate bio_endio here, and any change on
> bio_endio() may be needed for this _notrace version too in future.

I uhmed and arhhed about that.  The function is so small....
But I've had a change of heart.  I don't think that having separate
bio_endio() and bio_endio_notrace() is such a good idea. It is too easy
to use the wrong one.  It is much better to make it automatically do the
right thing.
So following is a new patch - more thoroughly tested - which handles
more cases, and doesn't need any follow-up changes for filesystems.

Thanks,
Neilbrown

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