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| author |   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2018-05-18 08:47:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2018-05-18 08:47:13 -0700 |
| commit | 6b59808bfe482642287ddf3fe9d4cccb10756652 (patch) | |
| tree | d97243a24dfec6ade0560190709f94101d06bcd1 /include/linux/workqueue.h | |
| parent | proc: Consolidate task->comm formatting into proc_task_name() (diff) | |
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workqueue: Show the latest workqueue name in /proc/PID/{comm,stat,status}
There can be a lot of workqueue workers and they all show up with the
cryptic kworker/* names making it difficult to understand which is
doing what and how they came to be.
# ps -ef | grep kworker
root 4 2 0 Feb25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/0:0H]
root 6 2 0 Feb25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/u112:0]
root 19 2 0 Feb25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/1:0H]
root 25 2 0 Feb25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/2:0H]
root 31 2 0 Feb25 ? 00:00:00 [kworker/3:0H]
...
This patch makes workqueue workers report the latest workqueue it was
executing for through /proc/PID/{comm,stat,status}. The extra
information is appended to the kthread name with intervening '+' if
currently executing, otherwise '-'.
# cat /proc/25/comm
kworker/2:0-events_power_efficient
# cat /proc/25/stat
25 (kworker/2:0-events_power_efficient) I 2 0 0 0 -1 69238880 0 0...
# grep Name /proc/25/status
Name: kworker/2:0-events_power_efficient
Unfortunately, ps(1) truncates comm to 15 characters,
# ps 25
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
25 ? I 0:00 [kworker/2:0-eve]
making it a lot less useful; however, this should be an easy fix from
ps(1) side.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/workqueue.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/workqueue.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index 39a0e215022a..60d673e15632 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -494,6 +494,7 @@ extern unsigned int work_busy(struct work_struct *work); extern __printf(1, 2) void set_worker_desc(const char *fmt, ...); extern void print_worker_info(const char *log_lvl, struct task_struct *task); extern void show_workqueue_state(void); +extern void wq_worker_comm(char *buf, size_t size, struct task_struct *task); /** * queue_work - queue work on a workqueue |