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

[Steven Rostedt]

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) {
>  		/*