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where NN is the number of parameters supplied by the macro. Number
and string parameters are passed in a type-safe manner.
+.SS IO SCHEDULER
+
+This family of probe points is used to probe the IO scheduler activities.
+It contains the following probe points:
+
+.P
+.TP
+.B ioscheduler.elv_next_request
+Fires when a request is retrieved from request queue
+
+.B Arguments:
+
+.I elevator_name
+ The name of the elevator
+
+.I disk_major
+ The major number of the disk
+
+.I disk_minor
+ The minor number of the disk
+
+.P
+.TP
+.B ioscheduler.elv_add_request
+Fires when a request is added to the request queue
+
+.B Arguments:
+
+.I elevator_name
+ The name of the elevator
+
+.I disk_major
+ The major number of the disk
+
+.I disk_minor
+ The minor number of the disk
+
+.P
+.TP
+.B ioscheduler.elv_completed_request
+Fires when a request is completed
+
+.B Arguments:
+
+.I elevator_name
+ The name of the elevator
+
+.I disk_major
+ The major number of the disk
+
+.I disk_minor
+ The minor number of the disk
+
+.SS SCSI
+
+This family of probe points is used to probe the SCSI activities.
+It contains the following probe points:
+
+.P
+.TP
+.B scsi.ioentry
+Fires when SCSI mid layer prepares a SCSI request
+
+.B Arguments:
+
+.I disk_major
+ The major number of the disk
+
+.I disk_minor
+ The minor number of the disk
+
+.I device_state
+ The current state of the device. The possible values could be:
+
+ SDEV_CREATED = 1, /* device created but not added to sysfs
+ * Only internal commands allowed (for inq) */
+ SDEV_RUNNING = 2, /* device properly configured
+ * All commands allowed */
+ SDEV_CANCEL = 3, /* beginning to delete device
+ * Only error handler commands allowed */
+ SDEV_DEL = 4, /* device deleted
+ * no commands allowed */
+ SDEV_QUIESCE = 5, /* Device quiescent. No block commands
+ * will be accepted, only specials (which
+ * originate in the mid-layer) */
+ SDEV_OFFLINE = 6, /* Device offlined (by error handling or
+ * user request */
+ SDEV_BLOCK = 7, /* Device blocked by scsi lld. No scsi
+ * commands from user or midlayer should be issued
+ * to the scsi lld. */
+
+.P
+.TP
+.B scsi.iodispatching
+Fires when the SCSI mid layer dispatches a SCSI command to the low level driver
+
+.B Arguments:
+
+.I host_no
+ The host number
+
+.I channel
+ The channel number
+
+.I lun
+ The lun number
+
+.I dev_id
+ The scsi device id
+
+.I device_state
+ The current state of the device.
+
+.I data_direction
+ The data_direction specifies whether this command is from/to the device.
+ The possible values could be:
+
+ DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL = 0,
+ DMA_TO_DEVICE = 1,
+ DMA_FROM_DEVICE = 2,
+ DMA_NONE = 3,
+
+.I request_buffer
+ The request buffer address
+
+.I req_bufflen
+ The request buffer length
+
+.P
+.TP
+.B scsi.iodone
+Fires when a SCSI command is done by low level driver and enqueued into the done queue.
+
+.B Arguments:
+
+.I host_no
+ The host number
+
+.I channel
+ The channel number
+
+.I lun
+ The lun number
+
+.I dev_id
+ The scsi device id
+
+.I device_state
+ The current state of the device
+
+.I data_direction
+ The data_direction specifies whether this command is from/to the device.
+
+.P
+.TP
+.B scsi.iocompleted
+Fires when SCSI mid layer runs the completion processing for
+block device I/O requests
+
+.B Arguments:
+
+.I host_no
+ The host number
+
+.I channel
+ The channel number
+
+.I lun
+ The lun number
+
+.I dev_id
+ The scsi device id
+
+.I device_state
+ The current state of the device
+
+.I data_direction
+ The data_direction specifies whether this command is from/to the device.
+
+.I goodbytes
+ The bytes completed.
+
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
Here are some example probe points, defining the associated events.