Re: [PATCH] sched/debug: print column titles of show_state_filter()[V2]

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Aug 11 2021 - 09:37:11 EST


On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:57:05 +0530
Shirish S <shirish.s@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This addition in the debug output shall improve readablitly..
> Its not intuitive for users that the pid printed in last column
> is of parent process.

Hi Shirish,

perhaps add a before and after output to show people what you are
trying to improve, and that can help the maintainers see if it is a
useful patch or not.

Note, I'm only a reviewer of scheduling code, I'm not one that can pull
in the patch.

-- Steve


>
> v2: Dropped #ifdef logic
>
> Signed-off-by: Shirish S <shirish.s@xxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 2d9ff40f4661..22cee4c0f4b1 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -8194,6 +8194,9 @@ void show_state_filter(unsigned int state_filter)
> {
> struct task_struct *g, *p;
>
> + pr_info(" task%*s", BITS_PER_LONG == 32 ? 38 : 46,
> + "PC stack pid father\n");
> +
> rcu_read_lock();
> for_each_process_thread(g, p) {
> /*