PROBE...TRACE(3stap) IO Scheduler and block IO TapsPROBE...TRACE(3stap)probe::ioblock_trace.request - Fires just as a generic block I/O request is created for a bio.
ioblock_trace.request
bdev target block deviceino i-node number of the mapped filep_start_sect points to the start sector of the partition structure of the deviceq request queue on which this bio was queued.bytes_done number of bytes transferreddevname block device namesize total size in bytesname name of the probe pointrw binary trace for read/write requestidx offset into the bio vector arrayphys_segments - number of segments in this bio after physical address coalescing is performed.opf operations and flagsvcnt bio vector count which represents number of array element (page, offset, length) which make up this I/O requestbdev_contains points to the device object which contains the partition (when bio structure represents a partition)sector beginning sector for the entire bioflags 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
The process makes block I/O request
tapset::ioblock(3stap)
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