Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > However, I am now getting this odd content in the trace log (dmesg), > and I cannot figure out what it is or why it is there. If anyone > recognizes this situation, I invite comment and suggestions on how to > eliminate or decipher it: > > 4296757675 pdflush(80): do_writepages: map>ops>wrtpgs ffffffffa0195ff5 > 4296757675 pdflush(80): mpage_writepages w/b index 49728 pages 256000 > <7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7> > <7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7> > <7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7> > <7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7><7> > <7><7><7><7><7>__bio_add_page: 2x ph 88>128 || hw 88>88 || 360448>max > ffffffff802525d8 generic_make_request(bio 000001017c745300) 50729472, 704 > __make_request(q 00000101b9293870, bio 000001017c745300: sdc; 50729600, > 704) I am going to regret answering this, because it is not the right place for such questions. However... I suspect you are misusing printk and the KERN_XXX prefixes (KERN_DEBUG, KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO, etc.) defined in include/linux/kernel.h. Try dropping the comma between the prefix and the message. That is: printk(KERN_INFO "Hello World!\n"); rather than: printk(KERN_INFO, "Hello World!\n"); I leave it an exercise for a for the reader to figure out what the difference is. Cheers, Michael