linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] block_dump: remove comments in docs

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Date:   Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:48:17 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz, tytso@....edu,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org, axboe@...nel.dk,
        mcgrof@...nel.org, keescook@...omium.org, yzaikin@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] block_dump: remove comments in docs

On Sat 13-03-21 11:01:46, zhangyi (F) wrote:
> Now block_dump feature is gone, remove all comments in docs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@...wei.com>

Nice. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst | 11 -----------
>  Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst           |  8 --------
>  2 files changed, 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst
> index c984c4262f2e..b61cc601d298 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst
> @@ -101,17 +101,6 @@ this results in concentration of disk activity in a small time interval which
>  occurs only once every 10 minutes, or whenever the disk is forced to spin up by
>  a cache miss. The disk can then be spun down in the periods of inactivity.
>  
> -If you want to find out which process caused the disk to spin up, you can
> -gather information by setting the flag /proc/sys/vm/block_dump. When this flag
> -is set, Linux reports all disk read and write operations that take place, and
> -all block dirtyings done to files. This makes it possible to debug why a disk
> -needs to spin up, and to increase battery life even more. The output of
> -block_dump is written to the kernel output, and it can be retrieved using
> -"dmesg". When you use block_dump and your kernel logging level also includes
> -kernel debugging messages, you probably want to turn off klogd, otherwise
> -the output of block_dump will be logged, causing disk activity that is not
> -normally there.
> -
>  
>  Configuration
>  -------------
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> index 586cd4b86428..3ca6679f16ea 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ files can be found in mm/swap.c.
>  Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
>  
>  - admin_reserve_kbytes
> -- block_dump
>  - compact_memory
>  - compaction_proactiveness
>  - compact_unevictable_allowed
> @@ -106,13 +105,6 @@ On x86_64 this is about 128MB.
>  Changing this takes effect whenever an application requests memory.
>  
>  
> -block_dump
> -==========
> -
> -block_dump enables block I/O debugging when set to a nonzero value. More
> -information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst.
> -
> -
>  compact_memory
>  ==============
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.4
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR