Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function

Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-20T16:44:21Z

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:26 +0000
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:

> 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 :-)

while you present this as a joke.... perf can more or less do this
using the backtrace infrastructure ...

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