From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org,
mcgrof@kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org, yzaikin@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] block_dump: remove block dump
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:37:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15f9c6ce-f22a-59cd-8ce7-eb908f663826@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210313030146.2882027-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com>
On 3/12/21 8:01 PM, zhangyi (F) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> block_dump is an old debugging interface and can be replaced by
> tracepoints, and we also found a deadlock issue relate to it[1]. As Jan
> suggested, this patch set delete the whole block_dump feature, we can
> use tracepoints to get the similar information. If someone still using
> this feature cannot switch to use tracepoints or any other suggestions,
> please let us know.
Totally agree, that's long overdue. The feature is no longer useful
and has been deprecated by much better methods. Unless anyone objects,
I'll queue this up for 5.13.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-13 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-13 3:01 [RFC PATCH 0/3] block_dump: remove block dump zhangyi (F)
2021-03-13 3:01 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] block_dump: remove block_dump feature in mark_inode_dirty() zhangyi (F)
2021-03-15 9:47 ` Jan Kara
2021-03-13 3:01 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] block_dump: remove block_dump feature zhangyi (F)
2021-03-15 9:48 ` Jan Kara
2021-03-13 3:01 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] block_dump: remove comments in docs zhangyi (F)
2021-03-15 9:48 ` Jan Kara
2021-03-13 3:37 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2021-05-10 1:29 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] block_dump: remove block dump Zhang Yi
2021-03-15 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-10 15:21 ` Jens Axboe
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