blktrace: doc: no more SCSI CDB in payload
PATCH 16/31 blktrace: doc: no more SCSI CDB in payload
Signed-off-by Steffen Maier <[email protected]>
Cc Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
--- doc/blktrace.8 | 6 ++++++ doc/blktrace.tex | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
doc/blktrace.8 +6 -0
@@ -269,6 +269,12 @@ flushing dirty data to disk or the file system syncing a super or journal block to disk. \fBpc\fR requests are SCSI commands. blktrace sends the command data block as a payload so that blkparse can decode it. +Since Linux kernel v4.11, SCSI commands no longer appear as payload in +\fBpc\fR requests. You can use SCSI tracepoints instead +(/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/scsi/). +Correlation between blktrace and SCSI tracing: +A blktrace issue event (D) causes a scsi_dispatch_cmd_start tracepoint; +A scsi_dispatch_cmd_done tracepoint causes a blktrace complete event (C). .SH EXAMPLES To trace the i/o on the device \fI/dev/sda\fR and parse the output to human
doc/blktrace.tex +20 -0
@@ -228,6 +228,16 @@ that the command completed successfully. Tracing SCSI commands can be very useful for debugging problems with programs talking directly to the device. An example of that would be \emph{cdrecord} burning. +Since Linux kernel v4.11\footnote{ +v4.11 commit 48b77ad60844 (``block: cleanup tracing'')\newline +v4.11 commit 82ed4db499b8 (``block: split scsi\_request out of struct request'')}, +SCSI commands no longer appear as part of an io action. +You can use SCSI tracepoints instead +(/sys/\linebreak[0]kernel/\linebreak[0]debug/\linebreak[0]tracing/\linebreak[0]events/\linebreak[0]scsi/). +Correlation between blktrace and SCSI tracing: +A blktrace issue event (D) causes a scsi\_dispatch\_cmd\_start event; +a scsi\_dispatch\_cmd\_done tracepoint causes a blktrace complete event (C). + \subsection{blktrace -- post-processing} \label{sec:blktrace-post}
@@ -463,6 +473,16 @@ a super or journal block to disk. \emph{pc} requests are SCSI commands. blktrace sends the command data block as a payload so that blkparse can decode it. +Since Linux kernel v4.11\footnote{ +v4.11 commit 48b77ad60844 (``block: cleanup tracing'')\newline +v4.11 commit 82ed4db499b8 (``block: split scsi\_request out of struct request'')}, +SCSI commands no longer appear as payload in +\emph{pc} requests. You can use SCSI tracepoints instead +(/sys/\linebreak[0]kernel/\linebreak[0]debug/\linebreak[0]tracing/\linebreak[0]events/\linebreak[0]scsi/). +Correlation between blktrace and SCSI tracing: +A blktrace issue event (D) causes a scsi\_dispatch\_cmd\_start tracepoint; +a scsi\_dispatch\_cmd\_done tracepoint causes a blktrace complete event (C). + %---------------------------- \newpage\section{blkparse User Guide} \label{sec:blkparse-ug}
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