Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:30:13 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] improve wchan reporting |
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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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