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SubjectRe: PATCH: fix task state reporting
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:38:12PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While running a test here, I noticed that some threads kept entering
> "T" state according to ps aux. However, rather than stop, they'd
> disappear on the next process listing, as though they weren't stopped.
>
> Further investigation revealed the following when suspending processes:
>
> root 1497 3.8 1.7 1472 544 ttyp1 Z 00:05 0:21 find / -name pro
>
> Yes, 'Z' for suspended, 'T' for zombie. Something smells fishy here.
>
> #define TASK_RUNNING 0
> #define TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE 1
> #define TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE 2
> #define TASK_STOPPED 4
> #define TASK_ZOMBIE 8
> #define TASK_DEAD 16
>
> So that's R S D T Z W, but sched.c contains R S D Z T W (Z and T
> reversed). This patch corrects sched.c. (Should we correct
> the order of bits in sched.h instead?)

fs/proc/array.c needs the same fix. I sent this to Ingo but he must
have lost my mail....

===== fs/proc/array.c 1.30 vs edited =====
--- 1.30/fs/proc/array.c Mon Sep 30 05:06:43 2002
+++ edited/fs/proc/array.c Tue Oct 1 13:45:13 2002
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@
"R (running)", /* 0 */
"S (sleeping)", /* 1 */
"D (disk sleep)", /* 2 */
- "Z (zombie)", /* 4 */
- "T (stopped)", /* 8 */
- "W (paging)" /* 16 */
+ "T (stopped)", /* 4 */
+ "Z (zombie)", /* 8 */
+ "X (dead)" /* 16 */
};

static inline const char * get_task_state(struct task_struct *tsk)
@@ -135,8 +135,9 @@
unsigned int state = tsk->state & (TASK_RUNNING |
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE |
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE |
+ TASK_STOPPED |
TASK_ZOMBIE |
- TASK_STOPPED);
+ TASK_DEAD);
const char **p = &task_state_array[0];

while (state) {
>
> --- orig/kernel/sched.c Wed Oct 16 09:17:13 2002
> +++ linux/kernel/sched.c Thu Oct 17 21:32:42 2002
> @@ -1798,7 +1798,7 @@
> unsigned long free = 0;
> task_t *relative;
> int state;
> - static const char * stat_nam[] = { "R", "S", "D", "Z", "T", "W" };
> + static const char * stat_nam[] = { "R", "S", "D", "T", "Z", "W" };
>
> printk("%-13.13s ", p->comm);
> state = p->state ? __ffs(p->state) + 1 : 0;
>
> --
> Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
>
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