[PATCH 2/2] xfs: Nuke XFS_ERROR macro

[Dave Chinner]

[ cc the tracing expert ]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 02:11:32PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 4/16/14, 12:55 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 4/16/14, 12:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:48:50PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >>> XFS_ERROR was designed long ago to trap return values,
> >>> but it's not runtime configurable, it's not consistently used,
> >>> and we can do the same thing today with systemtap, using
> >>> something like:
> >>>
> >>> probe module("xfs").function("xfs_*").return { if (@defined($return) && $return == VALUE) { ... } }
> >>
> >> Gives me a version just using ftrace, or at least a kprobes based module
> >> that we can merged in the kernel tree and this would be fine for me.
> >>
> >> Requiring a massive blob of questionable out of tree module code and a
> >> compiler is an absolute no-go.
> > 
> > Ok, fair point.
> >  
> >> NAK for now.
> > 
> > Even if we don't have a replacement, I have yet to find anyone who has
> > ever used it...
> > 
> > Anyway, I'll look into options besides systemtap.
> 
> Here's the "best" I've come up with so far...
> 
> # for FUNCTION in `grep "t xfs_" /proc/kallsyms | awk '{print $3}'`; do echo "r:ret_$FUNCTION $FUNCTION \$retval" >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events; done
> 
> # for ENABLE in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/ret_xfs_*/enable; do echo 1 > $ENABLE; done
> 
> run a test that fails:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=newfile bs=513 oflag=direct
> dd: writing `newfile': Invalid argument
> 
> # for ENABLE in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/ret_xfs_*/enable; do echo 0 > $ENABLE; done
> 
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
> <snip>
>            <...>-63791 [000] d... 705435.568913: ret_xfs_vn_mknod: (xfs_vn_create+0x13/0x20 [xfs] <- xfs_vn_mknod) arg1=0
>            <...>-63791 [000] d... 705435.568913: ret_xfs_vn_create: (vfs_create+0xdb/0x100 <- xfs_vn_create) arg1=0
>            <...>-63791 [000] d... 705435.568918: ret_xfs_file_open: (do_dentry_open+0x24e/0x2e0 <- xfs_file_open) arg1=0
>            <...>-63791 [000] d... 705435.568934: ret_xfs_file_dio_aio_write: (xfs_file_aio_write+0x147/0x150 [xfs] <- xfs_file_dio_aio_write) arg1=ffffffffffffffea
> 
> Hey look, it's "-22" in hex!  ;)
> 
> so it's possible, but bleah.

Steve, we want to be able to trap specific return codes from
functions. Say, for example, the first function that returns
EINVAL/-EINVAL in XFS under a given workload.

What's the most efficient way to do that with ftrace?

And can that be set up as a trigger so we can use it to dump a
snapshot of the last N events into the trace buffer or do other
interesting things with that event?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com