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From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:37:24 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Patch v3] block: introduce block_rq_error tracepoint
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Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:40 AM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Jens
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 9:37 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, rasdaemon uses the existing tracepoint block_rq_complete
> > and filters out non-error cases in order to capture block disk errors.
> >
> > But there are a few problems with this approach:
> >
> > 1. Even kernel trace filter could do the filtering work, there is
> >    still some overhead after we enable this tracepoint.
> >
> > 2. The filter is merely based on errno, which does not align with kernel
> >    logic to check the errors for print_req_error().
> >
> > 3. block_rq_complete only provides dev major and minor to identify
> >    the block device, it is not convenient to use in user-space.
> >
> > So introduce a new tracepoint block_rq_error just for the error case
> > and provides the device name for convenience too. With this patch,
> > rasdaemon could switch to block_rq_error.
> >
> > Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
>
> Can you take this patch?

Any response?

Thanks.