很多情况下开发者调测程序需要在Linux下获取具体的IO的状况，目前常用的IO观察工具用vmstat和iostat，具体功能上说当然是iostat更胜一筹，在IO统计上时间点上更具体精细。但二者都是在全局上看到IO，宏观上的数据对于判断IO到哪个文件上毫无帮助，这个时候block_dump的作用就显现出来了。
一、使用方法：
需要先停掉syslog功能，因为具体IO数据要通过printk输出，如果syslog存在，则会往message产生大量IO，干扰正常结果
| 1 2 | suse:~ # service syslog stop Shutting down syslog services done |
然后启动block_dump
| 1 | suse:~ # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump |
先说效果：
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | suse:~ # dmesg | tail dmesg(3414): dirtied inode 9594 (LC_MONETARY) on sda1 dmesg(3414): dirtied inode 9238 (LC_COLLATE) on sda1 dmesg(3414): dirtied inode 9241 (LC_TIME) on sda1 dmesg(3414): dirtied inode 9606 (LC_NUMERIC) on sda1 dmesg(3414): dirtied inode 9350 (LC_CTYPE) on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683672 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683680 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683688 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683696 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683704 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683712 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683720 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683728 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683736 on sda1 kjournald(506): WRITE block 3683744 on sda1 |
通过dmesg信息可以看到IO正在写那些文件，有进程号，inode号，文件名和磁盘设备名；但每个文件写了多少呢，仅仅通过dirtied inode就看不出来了，还需要分析WRITE block，后面的数字并不是真正的块号，而是内核IO层获取的扇区号，除以8即为块号，然后根据debugfs工具的icheck和ncheck选项，就可以获取该文件系统块属于哪个具体文件，具体请google之。
二、基本原理：
block_dump的原理其实很简单，内核在IO层根据标志block_dump在IO提交给磁盘的关口卡主过关的每一个BIO，将它们的数据打出来：
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | void submit_bio(int rw, struct bio *bio) { int count = bio_sectors(bio); bio->bi_rw |= rw; /* * If it's a regular read/write or a barrier with data attached, * go through the normal accounting stuff before submission. */ if (bio_has_data(bio) && !(rw & REQ_DISCARD)) { if (rw & WRITE) { count_vm_events(PGPGOUT, count); } else { task_io_account_read(bio->bi_size); count_vm_events(PGPGIN, count); } if (unlikely(block_dump)) { char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s(%d): %s block %Lu on %s (%u sectors)n", current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), (rw & WRITE) ? "WRITE" : "READ", (unsigned long long)bio->bi_sector, bdevname(bio->bi_bdev, b), count); } } generic_make_request(bio); } |
具体WRITE block块号和文件系统块号之间的对应关系在submit_bh函数中决定
| 1 | bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9); |
inode的block_dump实现是通过block_dump___mark_inode_dirty搞定的，这次把关口架在inode脏数据写回的路上，把每个过关的inode信息打出来：
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags) { if (unlikely(block_dump)) block_dump___mark_inode_dirty(inode); } static noinline void block_dump___mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode) { if (inode->i_ino || strcmp(inode->i_sb->s_id, "bdev")) { struct dentry *dentry; const char *name = "?"; dentry = d_find_alias(inode); if (dentry) { spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); name = (const char *) dentry->d_name.name; } printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s(%d): dirtied inode %lu (%s) on %sn", current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), inode->i_ino, name, inode->i_sb->s_id); if (dentry) { spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); dput(dentry); } } |
三、总结
1.内核由很多合适的关口来截获获取的IO信息，不改动内核，也可以用jprobe抢劫很多东西。
2.debugfs在大量的block–>file转换过程总太慢，自己用ext2fs写一个，效率应该能提高很多。
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[root@server-mysql log]# echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
[root@server-mysql log]# dmesg -c |grep mysqld
mysqld(11780): dirtied inode 1069049 (ib_logfile0) on sda3mysqld(11780): dirtied inode 1069049 (ib_logfile0) on sda3mysqld(11780): WRITE block 8236616 on sda3mysqld(9674): dirtied inode 1069048 (ibdata1) on sda3mysqld(9674): dirtied inode 1069048 (ibdata1) on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144896 on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144904 on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144912 on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144920 on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144928 on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144936 on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144944 on sda3mysqld(9674): WRITE block 8144952 on sda3mysqld(9674): dirtied inode 1071023 (kk.ibd) on sda3mysqld(9674): dirtied inode 1071023 (kk.ibd) on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 32762104 on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 32762112 on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 32762120 on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 32762128 on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 16177376 on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 16177384 on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 16177392 on sda3mysqld(9663): WRITE block 16177400 on sda3mysqld(9658): WRITE block 8175616 on sda3