Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:55:08 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, mingo@elte.hu,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function
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On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:03:21 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > ...
> >
> > @@ -1071,6 +1072,8 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode,
> > int flags) if ((inode->i_state & flags) == flags)
> >  		return;
> >  
> > +	trace_dirty_inode(inode, current);
> > +
> >  	if (unlikely(block_dump))
> >  		block_dump___mark_inode_dirty(inode);
> >  
> 
> Doesn't powertop also want to know who is spinning up the disk via
> buffered reads, direct-io reads and direct-io writes?
> 
> That's why the block_dump hook in submit_bio() is there.

there is already an existing trace event for this in the block layer...
I was planning to use block_bio_queue for this.

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