Hi All ,
I have sprinkled printk's in each and every function in VFS and
Filesystem which I want to understand.
I want to trace the functions which are executed when I execute a system
call in user space for my process.
I want to print the trace only for my process , so i want to somehow
Thanks for sharing! Peter, I think spindle is used just as another
word for slow device which I guess could be any other type of slow
storage medium like iSCSI or loop over NFS.
In some degree, I agree with that.
However, specificly to block device like hard disk, where things could
made
IMO yes, but starved better :) Not sure if I write it correctly, but
here is my understanding:
say you have 4 pdflush threads, competing to write to a disk. All are
busy, so you can say all are quite starved. But the writing process
(even though it's using async style) doesn't know about it.
Hi,
Just developing upon Mulyadi's idea:
A quick idea would be to implement something like /proc/tracethispid
which read integer. Then you do i.e echo /proc/tracethispid
and store this integer in a kernel variable.
A simpler technique could simply be storing the current pid in the
