blktrace: export cgroup info in trace
Currently blktrace isn't cgroup aware. blktrace prints out task name of current context, but the task of current context isn't always in the cgroup where the BIO comes from. We can't use task name to find out IO cgroup. For example, Writeback BIOs always comes from flusher thread but the BIOs are for different blk cgroups. Request could be requeued and dispatched from completely different tasks. MD/DM are another examples. This patch tries to fix the gap. We print out cgroup fhandle info in blktrace. Userspace can use open_by_handle_at() syscall to find the cgroup by fhandle. Or userspace can use name_to_handle_at() syscall to find fhandle for a cgroup and use a BPF program to filter out blktrace for a specific cgroup. We add a new 'blk_cgroup' trace option for blk tracer. It's default off. Application which doesn't know the new option isn't affected. When it's on, we output fhandle info right after blk_io_trace with an extra bit set in event action. So from application point of view, blktrace with the option will output new actions. I didn't change blk trace event yet, since I'm not sure if changing the trace event output is an ABI issue. If not, I'll do it later. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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