rename the ksoftirqd kernel thread.

Martin Hicks
2003-05-15T21:04:27Z

Marcelo,

Please consider this patch for 2.4.22-pre

It just renames the ksoftirqd kernel thread to be the same as in 2.5.

The side effect is that on machines with > 100 processors the last
number in the thread name doesn't get truncated.

The patch is against linux-2.4 bk.

thanks
mh

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Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com

# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project:
# Project Name: Linux kernel tree
# This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher.
# This patch includes the following deltas:
# ChangeSet 1.1210 -> 1.1211
# kernel/softirq.c 1.11 -> 1.12
#
# The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log
# --------------------------------------------
# 03/05/15 mort@plato.i.bork.org 1.1211
# Rename the ksoftirqd thread to be the same as in 2.5.
# --------------------------------------------
#
diff -Nru a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
--- a/kernel/softirq.c Thu May 15 17:13:08 2003
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c Thu May 15 17:13:08 2003
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@
while (smp_processor_id() != cpu)
schedule();

- sprintf(current->comm, "ksoftirqd_CPU%d", bind_cpu);
+ sprintf(current->comm, "ksoftirqd/%d", bind_cpu);

__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
mb();