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    blktrace: break out of blktrace setup on concurrent calls · 1b0b2836
    Luis Chamberlain authored
    We use one blktrace per request_queue, that means one per the entire
    disk.  So we cannot run one blktrace on say /dev/vda and then /dev/vda1,
    or just two calls on /dev/vda.
    
    We check for concurrent setup only at the very end of the blktrace setup though.
    
    If we try to run two concurrent blktraces on the same block device the
    second one will fail, and the first one seems to go on. However when
    one tries to kill the first one one will see things like this:
    
    The kernel will show these:
    
    ```
    debugfs: File 'dropped' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
    debugfs: File 'msg' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
    debugfs: File 'trace0' in directory 'nvme1n1' already present!
    ``
    
    And userspace just sees this error message for the second call:
    
    ```
    blktrace /dev/nvme1n1
    BLKTRACESETUP(2) /dev/nvme1n1 failed: 5/Input/output error
    ```
    
    The first userspace process #1 will also claim that the files
    were taken underneath their nose as well. The files are taken
    away form the first process given that when the second blktrace
    fails, it will follow up with a BLKTRACESTOP and BLKTRACETEARDOWN.
    This means that even if go-happy process #1 is waiting for blktrace
    data, we *have* been asked to take teardown the blktrace.
    
    This can easily be reproduced with break-blktrace [0] run_0005.sh test.
    
    Just break out early if we know we're already going to fail, this will
    prevent trying to create the files all over again, which we know still
    exist.
    
    [0] https://github.com/mcgrof/break-blktraceSigned-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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