From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964907AbVI0LkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:40:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964906AbVI0LkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:40:04 -0400 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.195]:4944 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964908AbVI0LkB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:40:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JHz43DgruNQVQwEIk01znhaXGCd5lFZYBav11i+RrsyiKE/siH5tqaZwooHR1L7mG90sFs/JDrqigFDJschSODrd+SmkVmsEFKbhNxs1Sy7ma4qgTQvm9xarjoI2EGap2DFdv3m2ghDyn7EGPRYPdVA7EfY+DgPxB+y5Kzs1Nvg= Message-ID: <64c7635405092704404019b9a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:10:00 +0530 From: Block Device Reply-To: Block Device To: Fawad Lateef Subject: Re: Trapping Block I/O Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1e62d137050923103843058e92@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <64c7635405092305433356bd17@mail.gmail.com> <1e62d137050923103843058e92@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The problem to creating a wrapper in the manner sugegsted is that any filesystems mounted or other stuff which uses the original device must be stopped and changed to start using the new pseudo device. I want something which can be as non intrusive as possible. Am looking @ Jens btrace :) .. Thanks &Regards -BD On 9/23/05, Fawad Lateef wrote: > On 9/23/05, Block Device wrote: > > > > I need to trap _all_ the I/O going to each and every block device > > in the system. I used jprobes to trap calls to generic_make_request. > > Is this the correct/only place to do such a thing ? > > Or do I have to monitor the q->make_request_fn for every device ? > > > > Yes, generic_make_request or monitoring q->make_request_fn can trap > the _all_ I/O tpo block devices but other approach might be a little > bit odd/difficult but through that you can get every request to block > device .... the approach is you create a block device and then create > that block device as a wrapper on your device, now use your block > device and in its request function (can alter the data and sectors > etc) and calls generic_make_request for the original device on which > you created wrapper .... So by doing this you can easily monitor > requests (similar to this approach is used in LVM/RAID) ...... > > > -- > Fawad Lateef >