[PATCH 2/5] writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

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This tracks when balance_dirty_pages() tries to wakeup the flusher
thread for background writeback (if it was not started already).

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---

 fs/fs-writeback.c                |    1 +
 include/trace/events/writeback.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- linux-next.orig/include/trace/events/writeback.h	2010-11-07 21:54:19.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/include/trace/events/writeback.h	2010-11-07 21:56:42.000000000 +0800
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_class, name, \
 	TP_ARGS(bdi))
 
 DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_nowork);
+DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_background);
 DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_thread);
 DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_forker_thread);
 DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_register);
--- linux-next.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c	2010-11-07 21:54:19.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/fs-writeback.c	2010-11-07 21:56:42.000000000 +0800
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ void bdi_start_background_writeback(stru
 	 * We just wake up the flusher thread. It will perform background
 	 * writeback as soon as there is no other work to do.
 	 */
+	trace_writeback_wake_background(bdi);
 	spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
 	bdi_wakeup_flusher(bdi);
 	spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);