Re: [PATCH] selftests: proc: Make sure wchan works when it exists

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, at 4:55 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> This makes sure that wchan contains a sensible symbol when a process is
> blocked. Specifically this calls the sleep() syscall, and expects the
> architecture to have called schedule() from a function that has "sleep"
> somewhere in its name. For example, on the architectures I tested
> (x86_64, arm64, arm, mips, and powerpc) this is "hrtimer_nanosleep":

Is this really better than admitting that the whole mechanism is nonsense and disabling it?

We could have a fixed string for each task state and call it a day.