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    blktrace: export cgroup info in trace · ca1136c9
    Shaohua Li authored
    
    
    Currently blktrace isn't cgroup aware. blktrace prints out task name of
    current context, but the task of current context isn't always in the
    cgroup where the BIO comes from. We can't use task name to find out IO
    cgroup. For example, Writeback BIOs always comes from flusher thread but
    the BIOs are for different blk cgroups. Request could be requeued and
    dispatched from completely different tasks. MD/DM are another examples.
    
    This patch tries to fix the gap. We print out cgroup fhandle info in
    blktrace. Userspace can use open_by_handle_at() syscall to find the
    cgroup by fhandle. Or userspace can use name_to_handle_at() syscall to
    find fhandle for a cgroup and use a BPF program to filter out blktrace
    for a specific cgroup.
    
    We add a new 'blk_cgroup' trace option for blk tracer. It's default off.
    Application which doesn't know the new option isn't affected.  When it's
    on, we output fhandle info right after blk_io_trace with an extra bit
    set in event action. So from application point of view, blktrace with
    the option will output new actions.
    
    I didn't change blk trace event yet, since I'm not sure if changing the
    trace event output is an ABI issue. If not, I'll do it later.
    
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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