diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/blktrace_api.h b/include/uapi/linux/blktrace_api.h
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+#ifndef _UAPIBLKTRACE_H
+#define _UAPIBLKTRACE_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/*
+ * Trace categories
+ */
+enum blktrace_cat {
+	BLK_TC_READ	= 1 << 0,	/* reads */
+	BLK_TC_WRITE	= 1 << 1,	/* writes */
+	BLK_TC_FLUSH	= 1 << 2,	/* flush */
+	BLK_TC_SYNC	= 1 << 3,	/* sync IO */
+	BLK_TC_SYNCIO	= BLK_TC_SYNC,
+	BLK_TC_QUEUE	= 1 << 4,	/* queueing/merging */
+	BLK_TC_REQUEUE	= 1 << 5,	/* requeueing */
+	BLK_TC_ISSUE	= 1 << 6,	/* issue */
+	BLK_TC_COMPLETE	= 1 << 7,	/* completions */
+	BLK_TC_FS	= 1 << 8,	/* fs requests */
+	BLK_TC_PC	= 1 << 9,	/* pc requests */
+	BLK_TC_NOTIFY	= 1 << 10,	/* special message */
+	BLK_TC_AHEAD	= 1 << 11,	/* readahead */
+	BLK_TC_META	= 1 << 12,	/* metadata */
+	BLK_TC_DISCARD	= 1 << 13,	/* discard requests */
+	BLK_TC_DRV_DATA	= 1 << 14,	/* binary per-driver data */
+	BLK_TC_FUA	= 1 << 15,	/* fua requests */
+
+	BLK_TC_END	= 1 << 15,	/* we've run out of bits! */
+};
+
+#define BLK_TC_SHIFT		(16)
+#define BLK_TC_ACT(act)		((act) << BLK_TC_SHIFT)
+
+/*
+ * Basic trace actions
+ */
+enum blktrace_act {
+	__BLK_TA_QUEUE = 1,		/* queued */
+	__BLK_TA_BACKMERGE,		/* back merged to existing rq */
+	__BLK_TA_FRONTMERGE,		/* front merge to existing rq */
+	__BLK_TA_GETRQ,			/* allocated new request */
+	__BLK_TA_SLEEPRQ,		/* sleeping on rq allocation */
+	__BLK_TA_REQUEUE,		/* request requeued */
+	__BLK_TA_ISSUE,			/* sent to driver */
+	__BLK_TA_COMPLETE,		/* completed by driver */
+	__BLK_TA_PLUG,			/* queue was plugged */
+	__BLK_TA_UNPLUG_IO,		/* queue was unplugged by io */
+	__BLK_TA_UNPLUG_TIMER,		/* queue was unplugged by timer */
+	__BLK_TA_INSERT,		/* insert request */
+	__BLK_TA_SPLIT,			/* bio was split */
+	__BLK_TA_BOUNCE,		/* bio was bounced */
+	__BLK_TA_REMAP,			/* bio was remapped */
+	__BLK_TA_ABORT,			/* request aborted */
+	__BLK_TA_DRV_DATA,		/* driver-specific binary data */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Notify events.
+ */
+enum blktrace_notify {
+	__BLK_TN_PROCESS = 0,		/* establish pid/name mapping */
+	__BLK_TN_TIMESTAMP,		/* include system clock */
+	__BLK_TN_MESSAGE,		/* Character string message */
+};
+
+
+/*
+ * Trace actions in full. Additionally, read or write is masked
+ */
+#define BLK_TA_QUEUE		(__BLK_TA_QUEUE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_BACKMERGE	(__BLK_TA_BACKMERGE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_FRONTMERGE	(__BLK_TA_FRONTMERGE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define	BLK_TA_GETRQ		(__BLK_TA_GETRQ | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define	BLK_TA_SLEEPRQ		(__BLK_TA_SLEEPRQ | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define	BLK_TA_REQUEUE		(__BLK_TA_REQUEUE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_REQUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_ISSUE		(__BLK_TA_ISSUE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_ISSUE))
+#define BLK_TA_COMPLETE		(__BLK_TA_COMPLETE| BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_COMPLETE))
+#define BLK_TA_PLUG		(__BLK_TA_PLUG | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_UNPLUG_IO	(__BLK_TA_UNPLUG_IO | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_UNPLUG_TIMER	(__BLK_TA_UNPLUG_TIMER | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_INSERT		(__BLK_TA_INSERT | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_SPLIT		(__BLK_TA_SPLIT)
+#define BLK_TA_BOUNCE		(__BLK_TA_BOUNCE)
+#define BLK_TA_REMAP		(__BLK_TA_REMAP | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_ABORT		(__BLK_TA_ABORT | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_QUEUE))
+#define BLK_TA_DRV_DATA	(__BLK_TA_DRV_DATA | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_DRV_DATA))
+
+#define BLK_TN_PROCESS		(__BLK_TN_PROCESS | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_NOTIFY))
+#define BLK_TN_TIMESTAMP	(__BLK_TN_TIMESTAMP | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_NOTIFY))
+#define BLK_TN_MESSAGE		(__BLK_TN_MESSAGE | BLK_TC_ACT(BLK_TC_NOTIFY))
+
+#define BLK_IO_TRACE_MAGIC	0x65617400
+#define BLK_IO_TRACE_VERSION	0x07
+
+/*
+ * The trace itself
+ */
+struct blk_io_trace {
+	__u32 magic;		/* MAGIC << 8 | version */
+	__u32 sequence;		/* event number */
+	__u64 time;		/* in microseconds */
+	__u64 sector;		/* disk offset */
+	__u32 bytes;		/* transfer length */
+	__u32 action;		/* what happened */
+	__u32 pid;		/* who did it */
+	__u32 device;		/* device number */
+	__u32 cpu;		/* on what cpu did it happen */
+	__u16 error;		/* completion error */
+	__u16 pdu_len;		/* length of data after this trace */
+};
+
+/*
+ * The remap event
+ */
+struct blk_io_trace_remap {
+	__be32 device_from;
+	__be32 device_to;
+	__be64 sector_from;
+};
+
+enum {
+	Blktrace_setup = 1,
+	Blktrace_running,
+	Blktrace_stopped,
+};
+
+#define BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE	32
+
+/*
+ * User setup structure passed with BLKTRACESTART
+ */
+struct blk_user_trace_setup {
+	char name[BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE];	/* output */
+	__u16 act_mask;			/* input */
+	__u32 buf_size;			/* input */
+	__u32 buf_nr;			/* input */
+	__u64 start_lba;
+	__u64 end_lba;
+	__u32 pid;
+};
+
+#endif /* _UAPIBLKTRACE_H */