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SubjectRe: [patch] improve wchan reporting
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> frame pointer. Another option is to make wchan an actual file in the task,
> which has the added bonus of being somewhat more useful with aio. In any
> case, I'd like to hear what other people think about the problem, as having
> 95% of tasks show up in __down or schedule_timeout makes tracking down some
> problems a lot harder. The patch is against bk-cur.

A third option could be a /proc/$pid/backtrace file which
contains the whole backtrace for a process and teach procps
to ignore certain functions.

I prefer your solution, though ;)

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