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

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Fri Sep 22 2017 - 08:40:32 EST


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.

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Markus