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

q

request queue on which this bio was queued.

devname

device for which a buffer bounce was needed.

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

idx

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

bytes_done

number of bytes transferred

ino

i-node number of the mapped file

name

name of the probe point

opf

operations and flags

size

total size in bytes

sector

beginning sector for the entire bio

rw

binary trace for read/write request

bdev_contains

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

p_start_sect

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

vcnt

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

bdev

target block device

Context

The process creating a block IO request.