From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754076AbZKTQFv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753795AbZKTQFv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:51 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:39662 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753172AbZKTQFu (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:26 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , "Kok, Auke" , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Jeff Garzik , "Wu, Fengguang" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , Al Viro , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function Message-ID: <20091120160526.GD20634@shareable.org> References: <20091025225342.007138f5@infradead.org> <20091111020108.GA11423@localhost> <20091110223456.01ef355f@infradead.org> <4AFA6AEF.5060306@garzik.org> <20091111081905.270a4e55@infradead.org> <4AFB4AC7.1090405@intel.com> <20091112072217.GA31719@elte.hu> <20091120104335.GB29143@infradead.org> <20091120064511.268cc8fd@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091120064511.268cc8fd@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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