Re: [PATCH] sched: print parent comm in sched_show_task()

[Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>]

On Wed 2023-01-04 01:51:30, 张元瀚 wrote:
> Hi Chen,
> Thanks for your advice!
> 
> > Maybe struct task_struct *parent = rcu_dereference(p->real_parent);
> > and use parent directly to get its pid and comm?
> 
> Yes! It is good to write this way.
> 
> > Maybe off-topic, what if the parent is a kernel thread/worker? It might
> have extra
> > name information such as kthread->full_name or worker->desc according to
> proc_task_name().
> 
> I'm not quite sure if it is necessary to fetch that extra information since
> our sched_show_task() prints p->comm ourselves.
> But, assuming we get the parent's name in the same way we get
> proc_task_name(), there are some new issues I'd like to discuss.

I suggest to keep it simple and just print "parent->comm".

Especially, we should avoid taking any lock. shed_show_task() might
be called when there already is a deadlock on the system. I guess
that it even can be called from NMI.

For example, see print_worker_info(). It uses
copy_from_kernel_nofault() to be safe without taking any lock.

Best Regards,
Petr