linux-kernel - Re: [patch] sched: fix single-depth wchan output

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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 22:16:59 -0800
From:	Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix single-depth wchan output

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> hm, this adds overhead - and the thing is that WCHAN is rather
> uninformative to begin with (because it's a single dimension), so we
> should phase it out, not expand it.
>
> How about adding a /proc/<PID>/stacktrace file that gives us the stack
> trace of any task in the system? That would be useful for a number of
> other purposes as well, and about 100 times more useful than wchan.
> (often it would be more useful than sysrq-t dumps)

Sure, my main motivation is to remove frame pointer generation. x86_64
unconditionally adds fp for kernel/sched.c right now.  I'm all for
phasing out wchan if people don't think there is value in it.

- Ken
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