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* strace of io_uring events?
@ 2020-07-15 11:12 Miklos Szeredi
  2020-07-15 14:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 29+ messages in thread
From: Miklos Szeredi @ 2020-07-15 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: strace-devel, io-uring
  Cc: Pavel Begunkov, Linux API, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel

Hi,

This thread is to discuss the possibility of stracing requests
submitted through io_uring.   I'm not directly involved in io_uring
development, so I'm posting this out of  interest in using strace on
processes utilizing io_uring.

io_uring gives the developer a way to bypass the syscall interface,
which results in loss of information when tracing.  This is a strace
fragment on  "io_uring-cp" from liburing:

io_uring_enter(5, 40, 0, 0, NULL, 8)    = 40
io_uring_enter(5, 1, 0, 0, NULL, 8)     = 1
io_uring_enter(5, 1, 0, 0, NULL, 8)     = 1
...

What really happens are read + write requests.  Without that
information the strace output is mostly useless.

This loss of information is not new, e.g. calls through the vdso or
futext fast paths are also invisible to strace.  But losing filesystem
I/O calls are a major blow, imo.

What do people think?

From what I can tell, listing the submitted requests on
io_uring_enter() would not be hard.  Request completion is
asynchronous, however, and may not require  io_uring_enter() syscall.
Am I correct?

Is there some existing tracing infrastructure that strace could use to
get async completion events?  Should we be introducing one?

Thanks,
Miklos

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2020-07-15 11:12 strace of io_uring events? Miklos Szeredi
2020-07-15 14:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-15 17:11   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-15 19:42     ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-15 20:09       ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-07-15 20:20         ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-15 23:07           ` Kees Cook
2020-07-16 13:14             ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-07-16 15:12               ` Kees Cook
2020-07-17  8:01                 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-07-21 15:27                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-21 15:31                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-21 17:23                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-21 17:30                         ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-21 17:44                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-21 18:39                             ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-21 19:44                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-21 19:48                                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-21 19:56                                 ` Andres Freund
2020-07-21 19:37                         ` Andres Freund
2020-07-21 15:58                     ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-07-23 10:39                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-23 13:37                       ` Colin Walters
2020-07-24  7:25                         ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-07-16 13:17             ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-07-16 15:19               ` Kees Cook
2020-07-17  8:17               ` Cyril Hrubis
2020-07-16 16:24             ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-07-16  0:12     ` tytso

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