Re: [PATCH v2] CIFS: Print message when attempting a mount

[Rodrigo Freire <rfreire@redhat.com>]

Hi Steve! o/ 

Appreciate your time and review. 

For a v3, what would you like more: a pr_info() straight away in the code
for the message, or, writing a new cifs_info() function wrapping
over pr_info, like we have in cifs_dbg (which translates to pr_debug or pr_err)?

Waiting for your comments. Thanks!

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----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com>
> To: rfreire@redhat.com
> Cc: "LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Steve French"
> <sfrench@samba.org>, "CIFS" <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>, "Pavel Shilovsky"
> <piastryyy@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 6, 2018 4:09:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] CIFS: Print message when attempting a mount

> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:53 PM Rodrigo Freire <rfreire@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi hi again Steve \o
> >
> > I do see potential for a ftrace rewrite for the cifs_dbg messages.

> Was looking at this on current kernels and debugging mount is probably
> fine for developers (or users) - plenty of debug messages get printed
> via the dynamic ftrace points. In practice some would prefer less
> noisy trace logs so the minimum set for some would be something like
> this (which already works with current cifs). If we want to add some
> default log messages on mount to dmesg instead of the trace-cmd log,
> maybe we should log them at a slightly less noisy level (as we see
> with xfs and btrfs) so they will be more log friendly

> root@smf-Thinkpad~/# trace-cmd record -e smb3_enter* -e smb3_exit*
> Hit Ctrl^C to stop recording

> root@smf-Thinkpad:~/# trace-cmd show
> # tracer: nop
> #
> # _-----=> irqs-off
> # / _----=> need-resched
> # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
> # || / _--=> preempt-depth
> # ||| / delay
> # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
> # | | | |||| | |
> mount.cifs-14199 [002] .... 97642.728411: smb3_enter:
> cifs_mount: xid=20
> mount.cifs-14199 [002] .... 97642.728669: smb3_enter:
> cifs_get_smb_ses: xid=21
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.742336: smb3_exit_done:
> cifs_get_smb_ses: xid=21
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.742343: smb3_enter:
> cifs_setup_ipc: xid=22
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.742530: smb3_exit_done:
> cifs_setup_ipc: xid=22
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.742532: smb3_enter:
> cifs_get_tcon: xid=23
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.742674: smb3_exit_done:
> cifs_get_tcon: xid=23
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.743267: smb3_exit_done:
> cifs_mount: xid=20
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.743311: smb3_enter:
> cifs_root_iget: xid=24
> mount.cifs-14199 [003] .... 97642.743471: smb3_exit_done:
> cifs_root_iget: xid=24

> --
> Thanks,

> Steve