Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:37:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sched.h: increment TASK_COMM_LEN to 20 bytes |
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Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > We do occasionally hit task_struct.comm[] truncation, when people use > > "too-long-a-name%d" for their kernel thread names. But we seem to manage. > > It would be especially helpful if you want to name a task thread > the NAA IEEE Registered name format (16 chars, globally unique), for things > like FC, SAS, etc. This way you can identify the task thread with > the device bearing the NAA IEEE name. > > Currently just last character is cut off, since TASK_COMM_LEN is 15+1. > > I think incrementing it would be a good thing, plus other things > may want to represent 8 bytes as a character array to be the name > of a task thread.
OK, that's a reason. Being able to map a kernel thread onto a particular device is useful.
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