From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix single-depth wchan output
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:30:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49136FF0.1060801@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226008571.3023.20.camel@calx>
Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 07:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>How about adding a /proc/<PID>/stacktrace file that gives us the stack
>>trace of any task in the system? That would be useful for a number of
>>other purposes as well, and about 100 times more useful than wchan.
>>(often it would be more useful than sysrq-t dumps)
>
>
> But this is a great idea, of course.
Agreed. I know some apps designers that would love to get their hands
on something like that...
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-06 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-06 5:58 [patch] sched: fix single-depth wchan output Ken Chen
2008-11-06 6:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-06 6:16 ` Ken Chen
2008-11-06 6:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-06 6:42 ` Ken Chen
2008-11-06 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-06 7:28 ` Ken Chen
2008-11-06 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-06 22:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-06 21:56 ` Matt Mackall
2008-11-06 22:30 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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