Commit 51fd43e2 authored by zhangyi (F)'s avatar zhangyi (F) Committed by Jens Axboe

block_dump: remove comments in docs

Now block_dump feature is gone, remove all comments in docs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarzhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-4-yi.zhang@huawei.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 3af3d772
...@@ -101,17 +101,6 @@ this results in concentration of disk activity in a small time interval which ...@@ -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 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. 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 Configuration
------------- -------------
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...@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ files can be found in mm/swap.c. ...@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ files can be found in mm/swap.c.
Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- admin_reserve_kbytes - admin_reserve_kbytes
- block_dump
- compact_memory - compact_memory
- compaction_proactiveness - compaction_proactiveness
- compact_unevictable_allowed - compact_unevictable_allowed
...@@ -106,13 +105,6 @@ On x86_64 this is about 128MB. ...@@ -106,13 +105,6 @@ On x86_64 this is about 128MB.
Changing this takes effect whenever an application requests memory. 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 compact_memory
============== ==============
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