Re: [PATCH] perf sched: fix wrong conversion of task state

[David Ahern]

On 7/27/16 9:10 PM, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
> But that means we cannot handle preemption correctly as far as
> sched:sched_switch
> event uses TASK_STATE_MAX to mark preempted tasks.
>
> Should we stop using TASK_STATE_MAX for preempted tasks in ftrace and
> use (1 << 63) or something that doesn't change on kernel version instead?

ftrace printing is within the kernel so it has consistency.

It is the save data and analyze later use case that can not assume  
TASK_STATE_MAX means preemption since the value of TASK_STATE_MAX is  
kernel version dependent.