linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: Cleanup task->state printing

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Message-ID: <20170922124022.GA234@x4>
Date:   Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:40:22 +0200
From:   Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: Cleanup task->state printing

On 2017.09.22 at 13:54 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:35:33AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > It seems to work. Simply returning "I (idle)" from get_task_state() in
> > > fs/proc/array.c when the state is TASK_IDLE does the trick.
> > > I've tested top, htop and ps.
> 
> I ended up with the below; there was quite a lot of inconsistent state
> printing around it seems.
> 
> I should probably split this thing into a bunch of patches :/
> 
> Alongside an explicit idle state, this also exposes TASK_PARKED,
> although arguably we could map that to idle too. Opinions?

Looks good to me and works as expected.
Many thanks.

-- 
Markus