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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:26 +0000
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> in my case it's not about finding the file, but finding the place in
> the application that is doing the writing. The last pathname component
> is more than enough for this....

So what you really need is the source file and line number in your
application where it does the writing :-)

-- Jamie