This patchset when enabled with stacktrace will give output like the below dd-1905 [003] 26.445155: set_buffer_uptodate: bh = df5c28c0 device = vda block = 34817 new state= 0x23 dd-1905 [003] 26.445156: <stack trace> => set_buffer_uptodate => __block_commit_write => block_write_end => ext3_writeback_write_end => generic_file_buffered_write => __generic_file_aio_write => generic_file_aio_write => do_sync_write dd-1905 [003] 26.445168: clear_buffer_new: bh = df5c28c0 device = vda block = 34817 new state = 0x23 dd-1905 [003] 26.445169: <stack trace> => clear_buffer_new => __block_commit_write => block_write_end => ext3_writeback_write_end => generic_file_buffered_write => __generic_file_aio_write => generic_file_aio_write => do_sync_write dd-1905 [003] 26.445182: set_buffer_revokevalid: bh = df406540 device = vda block = 32835 new state= 0x310029 dd-1905 [003] 26.445183: <stack trace> => journal_cancel_revoke => do_get_write_access => journal_get_write_access => __ext3_journal_get_write_access => ext3_reserve_inode_write => ext3_mark_inode_dirty => ext3_dirty_inode => __mark_inode_dirty dd-1905 [003] 26.445197: clear_buffer_revoked: bh = df406540 device = vda block = 32835 new state = 0x310029 dd-1905 [003] 26.445198: <stack trace> => journal_cancel_revoke => do_get_write_access => journal_get_write_access => __ext3_journal_get_write_access => ext3_reserve_inode_write => ext3_mark_inode_dirty => ext3_dirty_inode => __mark_inode_dirty -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html