diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 6b27be96b6e5..f9159879c5fc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2934,6 +2934,9 @@ static int ext4_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
 	struct inode *inode;
 	int err, err2 = 0, credits, retries = 0;
 
+	//if (printk_ratelimit())
+		printk("!!! ext4_mkdir %s\n", dentry->d_name.name);
+
 	if (EXT4_DIR_LINK_MAX(dir))
 		return -EMLINK;
 
@@ -2989,6 +2992,9 @@ static int ext4_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
 out_retry:
 	if (err == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(dir->i_sb, &retries))
 		goto retry;
+	//if (printk_ratelimit())
+		printk("!!! ext4_mkdir ret %d\n", err);
+
 	return err;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 38531c5e16c6..2d44b1b5bb5c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1581,9 +1581,12 @@ static int ext4_xattr_set_entry(struct ext4_xattr_info *i,
 		goto update_hash;
 	}
 
+printk("In ext4_xattr_set_entry s %lx, last = %lx, name len %x\n", s, s->first, s->first, EXT4_XATTR_LEN((s->first)->e_name_len));
 	/* Compute min_offs and last. */
 	last = s->first;
+
 	for (; !IS_LAST_ENTRY(last); last = next) {
+printk("In next ext4_xattr_set_entry s %lx, name len %d", last, EXT4_XATTR_LEN((last)->e_name_len));
 		next = EXT4_XATTR_NEXT(last);
 		if ((void *)next >= s->end) {
 			EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "corrupted xattr entries");
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr_security.c b/fs/ext4/xattr_security.c
index 50fb71393fb6..7bcb40424ece 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr_security.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr_security.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ ext4_initxattrs(struct inode *inode, const struct xattr *xattr_array,
 	int err = 0;
 
 	for (xattr = xattr_array; xattr->name != NULL; xattr++) {
+printk("!!!ext4_initxattrs set hndl name %s \n", xattr->name);
 		err = ext4_xattr_set_handle(handle, inode,
 					    EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_SECURITY,
 					    xattr->name, xattr->value,