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From: "Eddie Pettis" <pettis.eddie@gmail.com>
To: "Helge Hafting" <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to locate struct file * from a bio?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:55:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d66e87630701311055h49a03552m904cbf00751dd805@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C0B343.1090301@aitel.hist.no>

On 1/31/07, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
> Eddie Pettis wrote:
> > Short question:  Is it possible to locate the struct file * associated
> > with a bio?  If so, how?
> >
>
> Looks like you do this the wrong way.

Agreed.  It was a bad hack based on something I had done previously.

>
> Why don't you tap into "open" instead?
> Here you can note who opens the file and if they open it for
> reading or writing.  If you really need the amount of data
> transferred, consider trapping the read and write syscalls too.

I added hooks to the sys_* system calls for read/write/open/close from
userspace, and that seems to work.

Thanks!

>
> Helge Hafting
>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 14:34 Eddie Pettis
2007-01-31 14:44 ` Al Viro
2007-01-31 14:51   ` Al Viro
2007-01-31 15:18 ` Helge Hafting
2007-01-31 18:45   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 18:55   ` Eddie Pettis [this message]

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