linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 14/15] sched.h: extend task comm from 16 to 24 for CONFIG_BASE

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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 03:46:02 +0000
From:   Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
To:     keescook@...omium.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, arnaldo.melo@...il.com,
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        Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 14/15] sched.h: extend task comm from 16 to 24 for CONFIG_BASE_FULL

When I was implementing a new per-cpu kthread cfs_migration, I found the
comm of it "cfs_migration/%u" is truncated due to the limitation of
TASK_COMM_LEN. For example, the comm of the percpu thread on CPU10~19 are
all with the same name "cfs_migration/1", which will confuse the user. This
issue is not critical, because we can get the corresponding CPU from the
task's Cpus_allowed. But for kthreads correspoinding to other hardware
devices, it is not easy to get the detailed device info from task comm,
for example,

    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    xfs-reclaim/sdf

We can also shorten the name to work around this problem, but I find
there are so many truncated kthreads:

    rcu_tasks_kthre
    rcu_tasks_rude_
    rcu_tasks_trace
    poll_mpt3sas0_s
    ext4-rsv-conver
    xfs-reclaim/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-blockgc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-inodegc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    audit_send_repl
    ecryptfs-kthrea
    vfio-irqfd-clea
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    ...

We should improve this problem fundamentally.

This patch extends the size of task comm to 24 bytes, which is the
same length with workqueue's, for the CONFIG_BASE_FULL case. And for the
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL case, the size of task comm is still kept as 16 bytes.

After this patchset, the truncated kthreads listed above will be
displayed as:

    rcu_tasks_kthread
    rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
    rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
    poll_mpt3sas0_statu
    ext4-rsv-conversion
    xfs-reclaim/sdf1
    xfs-blockgc/sdf1
    xfs-inodegc/sdf1
    audit_send_reply
    ecryptfs-kthread
    vfio-irqfd-cleanup
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-8

Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 62d5b30d310c..fcb4bc97f95c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -274,10 +274,17 @@ struct task_group;
 
 #define get_current_state()	READ_ONCE(current->__state)
 
-/* To replace the old hard-coded 16 */
-#define TASK_COMM_LEN_16		16
+/* Also to replace the old hard-coded 16 */
+#define TASK_COMM_LEN_16	16
+#define TASK_COMM_LEN_24	24
+
+
 /* Task command name length: */
-#define TASK_COMM_LEN			16
+#if CONFIG_BASE_SMALL
+#define TASK_COMM_LEN		TASK_COMM_LEN_16
+#else
+#define TASK_COMM_LEN		TASK_COMM_LEN_24
+#endif
 
 extern void scheduler_tick(void);
 
-- 
2.17.1