From: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com> mainline inclusion from mainline-v5.14 commit 51fd43e2801054b1321b1d81b91dc37efdff5127 category: bugfix issue: #I3ZXZF CVE: NA Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... ----------------------------------------------- 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> Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Yu Changchun <yuchangchun1@huawei.com> --- 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 06027c6a233a..a5fbef4740c2 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 ============== -- 2.22.0