[PATCH 5/5] Documentation/laptop: add block_dump documentation

Chaitanya Kulkarni
2019-07-01T21:58:13Z

This patch updates the block_dump documentation with respect to the
changes from the earlier patch for submit_bio(). Also we adjust rest of
the lines to fit with standaed format.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
---
Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt
index 1c707fc9b141..d4d72ed677c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt
@@ -101,14 +101,14 @@ 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.
+is set, Linux reports all disk I/O operations along with 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.

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