Name

probe::ioblock_trace.bounce — Fires whenever a buffer bounce is needed for at least one page of a block IO request.

Synopsis

ioblock_trace.bounce 

Values

bytes_done

number of bytes transferred

bdev_contains

points to the device object which contains the partition (when bio structure represents a partition)

ino

i-node number of the mapped file

size

total size in bytes

sector

beginning sector for the entire bio

bdev

target block device

vcnt

bio vector count which represents number of array element (page, offset, length) which makes up this I/O request

idx

offset into the bio vector array phys_segments - number of segments in this bio after physical address coalescing is performed.

flags

see below BIO_UPTODATE 0 ok after I/O completion BIO_RW_BLOCK 1 RW_AHEAD set, and read/write would block BIO_EOF 2 out-out-bounds error BIO_SEG_VALID 3 nr_hw_seg valid BIO_CLONED 4 doesn't own data BIO_BOUNCED 5 bio is a bounce bio BIO_USER_MAPPED 6 contains user pages BIO_EOPNOTSUPP 7 not supported

devname

device for which a buffer bounce was needed.

p_start_sect

points to the start sector of the partition structure of the device

opf

operations and flags

q

request queue on which this bio was queued.

rw

binary trace for read/write request

name

name of the probe point

Context

The process creating a block IO request.