Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] blktrace: break out of blktrace setup on concurrent calls

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Fri May 01 2020 - 11:06:31 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:49:37AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 07:46:26AM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> > index 5c52976bd762..383045f67cb8 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> > @@ -516,6 +518,11 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
> > */
> > strreplace(buts->name, '/', '_');
> >
> > + if (q->blk_trace) {
> > + pr_warn("Concurrent blktraces are not allowed\n");
> > + return -EBUSY;
>
> You have access to a block device here, please use dev_warn() instead
> here for that, that makes it obvious as to what device a "concurrent
> blktrace" was attempted for.

The block device may be empty, one example is for scsi-generic, but I'll
use buts->name.

Luis