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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 ------------- |