[PATCH] ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/journal_task

[PATCH] ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/journal_task

[Konstantin Khlebnikov]

This is useful for moving journal thread into cgroup or
for tracing it with ftrace/perf/blktrace.

For now the only way is `pgrep jbd2/$DISK` but this is not reliable:
name may be longer than "comm" limit and any task could mock it.

Attribute shows pid in current pid-namespace or 0 if task is unreachable.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 |    7 +++++++
 fs/ext4/sysfs.c                         |   13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4
index c631253cf85c..78604db56279 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4
@@ -109,3 +109,10 @@ Description:
 		write operation (since a 4k random write might turn
 		into a much larger write due to the zeroout
 		operation).
+
+What:		/sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/journal_task
+Date:		February 2019
+Contact:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
+Description:
+		This file is read-only and shows the pid of journal thread in
+		current pid-namespace or 0 if task is unreachable.
diff --git a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
index 9212a026a1f1..60085b2e41ed 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/sysfs.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ typedef enum {
 	attr_feature,
 	attr_pointer_ui,
 	attr_pointer_atomic,
+	attr_journal_task,
 } attr_id_t;
 
 typedef enum {
@@ -125,6 +126,14 @@ static ssize_t trigger_test_error(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi,
 	return count;
 }
 
+static ssize_t journal_task_show(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, char *buf)
+{
+	if (!sbi->s_journal)
+		return -ESRCH;
+	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n",
+			task_pid_vnr(sbi->s_journal->j_task));
+}
+
 #define EXT4_ATTR(_name,_mode,_id)					\
 static struct ext4_attr ext4_attr_##_name = {				\
 	.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode },		\
@@ -188,6 +197,7 @@ EXT4_RW_ATTR_SBI_UI(msg_ratelimit_burst, s_msg_ratelimit_state.burst);
 EXT4_RO_ATTR_ES_UI(errors_count, s_error_count);
 EXT4_ATTR(first_error_time, 0444, first_error_time);
 EXT4_ATTR(last_error_time, 0444, last_error_time);
+EXT4_ATTR(journal_task, 0444, journal_task);
 
 static unsigned int old_bump_val = 128;
 EXT4_ATTR_PTR(max_writeback_mb_bump, 0444, pointer_ui, &old_bump_val);
@@ -217,6 +227,7 @@ static struct attribute *ext4_attrs[] = {
 	ATTR_LIST(errors_count),
 	ATTR_LIST(first_error_time),
 	ATTR_LIST(last_error_time),
+	ATTR_LIST(journal_task),
 	NULL,
 };
 
@@ -304,6 +315,8 @@ static ssize_t ext4_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 		return print_tstamp(buf, sbi->s_es, s_first_error_time);
 	case attr_last_error_time:
 		return print_tstamp(buf, sbi->s_es, s_last_error_time);
+	case attr_journal_task:
+		return journal_task_show(sbi, buf);
 	}
 
 	return 0;

Re: [PATCH] ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/journal_task

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 01:17:43PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This is useful for moving journal thread into cgroup or
> for tracing it with ftrace/perf/blktrace.
> 
> For now the only way is `pgrep jbd2/$DISK` but this is not reliable:
> name may be longer than "comm" limit and any task could mock it.
> 
> Attribute shows pid in current pid-namespace or 0 if task is unreachable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>

Thanks, applied with one change; if the file system does not have a
journal, reading the /sys/fs/ext4/<disk>/journal_task will return
"<none>" instead of returning a ESRCH error.

	 	    	      	      - Ted