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author | zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com> | 2021-03-13 11:01:46 +0800 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2021-05-24 06:47:21 -0600 |
commit | 51fd43e2801054b1321b1d81b91dc37efdff5127 (patch) | |
tree | 8d5330532e1f8553215b2962530267eb7005c63c /Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/laptop-mode.rst | |
parent | block_dump: remove block_dump feature (diff) | |
download | linux-dev-51fd43e2801054b1321b1d81b91dc37efdff5127.tar.xz linux-dev-51fd43e2801054b1321b1d81b91dc37efdff5127.zip |
block_dump: remove comments in docs
Now block_dump feature is gone, remove all comments in docs.
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-4-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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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 ------------- |