From patchwork Sat Mar 13 03:01:46 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Zhang Yi X-Patchwork-Id: 12136369 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8EEEC433E0 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2021 02:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B7C64F4F for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2021 02:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232880AbhCMCzk (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:55:40 -0500 Received: from szxga07-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.35]:14324 "EHLO szxga07-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232468AbhCMCzI (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:55:08 -0500 Received: from DGGEMS413-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.60]) by szxga07-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4Dy6gc1L4gz8xFC; Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:53:16 +0800 (CST) Received: from huawei.com (10.175.127.227) by DGGEMS413-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.213) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.498.0; Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:54:58 +0800 From: "zhangyi (F)" To: , , , CC: , , , , , , , Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/3] block_dump: remove comments in docs Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:01:46 +0800 Message-ID: <20210313030146.2882027-4-yi.zhang@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.4 In-Reply-To: <20210313030146.2882027-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com> References: <20210313030146.2882027-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.175.127.227] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Now block_dump feature is gone, remove all comments in docs. Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- 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 ==============