Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] blktrace: Make init_blk_tracer() asynchronous when trace_async_init set

From: Jens Axboe

Date: Wed Jan 28 2026 - 21:26:23 EST


On Jan 28, 2026, at 5:40 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Jens,
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> Can you give me an acked-by on this patch and I can take the series through
> my tree.

On phone, hope this works:

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

> Or perhaps this doesn't even need to test the trace_async_init flag and can
> always do the work queue? Does blk_trace ever do tracing at boot up? That
> is, before user space starts?

Not via the traditonal way of running blktrace.