tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()

TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
  ...

Cons:

  - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
    no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
    no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL.

    This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
    But this may change in the future.

  - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
    While blktrace do the convertion just before output.

    Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.

  - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
    has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.

    The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().

I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:

      dd                   dd + ioctl blktrace       dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1     7.36s, 42.7 MB/s     7.50s, 42.0 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2     7.43s, 42.3 MB/s     7.48s, 42.1 MB/s          7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3     7.38s, 42.6 MB/s     7.45s, 42.2 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s

So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.

And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:

 # ls -l -h
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out

Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:

plug:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981:   8,0    P   N [kjournald]

unplug_io:
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052974:   8,0    U   N [kblockd/0] 1

remap:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085043:   8,0    A   W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384

bio_backmerge:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086:   8,0    M   W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]

getrq:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084975:   8,0    G   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953770:   8,0    G   N [bash]
  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]

rq_complete:
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053191:   8,0    C   W 103669040 + 16 [0]

  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953811:   8,0    C   N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]

rq_insert:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084986:   8,0    I   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

Changelog from v2 -> v3:

- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().

Changelog from v1 -> v2:

- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
  to store hex dump of rq->cmd().

- support large pc requests.

- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.

- some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 1306de9cce0..9475bf99b89 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -28,22 +28,14 @@
 #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h>
 #include <linux/blktrace_api.h>
 #include <linux/fault-inject.h>
-#include <trace/block.h>
+
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/block.h>
 
 #include "blk.h"
 
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_plug);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_unplug_io);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_unplug_timer);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_getrq);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_sleeprq);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_rq_requeue);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_bio_backmerge);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_bio_frontmerge);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_bio_queue);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_rq_complete);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_remap);	/* Also used in drivers/md/dm.c */
 EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL(block_remap);
+EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL(block_bio_complete);
 
 static int __make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio);
 
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 7073a907257..e220f0c543e 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -33,17 +33,16 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/blktrace_api.h>
-#include <trace/block.h>
 #include <linux/hash.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
+#include <trace/events/block.h>
+
 #include "blk.h"
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(elv_list_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(elv_list);
 
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_rq_abort);
-
 /*
  * Merge hash stuff.
  */
@@ -55,9 +54,6 @@ static const int elv_hash_shift = 6;
 #define rq_hash_key(rq)		((rq)->sector + (rq)->nr_sectors)
 #define ELV_ON_HASH(rq)		(!hlist_unhashed(&(rq)->hash))
 
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_rq_insert);
-DEFINE_TRACE(block_rq_issue);
-
 /*
  * Query io scheduler to see if the current process issuing bio may be
  * merged with rq.