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    [PATCH] Improve laptop mode's block_dump output · 6835de14
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    
    This patch versus improves the output produced by "echo 1 >
    /proc/sys/vm/block_dump", in the following ways:
    
    1) The messages are printed with KERN_DEBUG, so that even if sysklogd is
       running, if configured appropriately, it will not need to write to log
       files.
    
    2) The inode which is dirtied by a process is now identified more
       precisely by inode number and filesystem ID, and by a dcache name if
       present.
    
    3) In the generic filesystem sget function, the superblock id (s_id) is
       filled in with the filesystem type by default.  Filesystems which are
       block-device based will override s_id, but this allows pseudo
       filesystems such as tmpfs, procfs, etc.  to be identified in (2).
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