[dm-devel] [PATCH] block: trace completion of all bios.

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Mar 22 12:51:49 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:38:09PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Currently only dm and md/raid5 bios trigger trace_block_bio_complete().
> Now that we have bio_chain(), it is not possible, in general, for a
> driver to know when the bio is really complete.  Only bio_endio()
> knows that.
> 
> So move the trace_block_bio_complete() call to bio_endio().

This will cause duplicate events for request based drivers.  You'll
need to have a bio_endio_notrace or similar without that the request
completion path can call.




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