From: Anton Arapov <aarapov@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:37:51 +0200 Subject: [misc] sysrq-t: display backtrace for runnable processes Message-id: 20080818073750.GA5035@redhat.com O-Subject: [RHEL5.3 PATCH] BZ456588: [RFE] Display backtrace for runnable 'R' processes in sysrq-t Bugzilla: 456588 RH-Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> RH-Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> RH-Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> RH-Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> bugzilla: 456588 description: from bugzilla: Since no call trace got collected for those tasks, we lose the data why they are in runqueue causing high load. Actually, it can just one or none in user space. feature is reasonable to adopt to RHEL kernel in order to make debugging more informative. there is the respective patch attached, please review! upstream: commit# 5fb5e6de55860a99c2d8fe7e0c8222d5c53d8464 test status: compiled, booted, sysrq-t'ed many times... output has runnable tasks, as expected. -Anton. == diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 31acebe..b579d0f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5005,8 +5005,7 @@ static void show_task(struct task_struct *p) else printk(" (NOTLB)\n"); - if (state != TASK_RUNNING) - show_stack(p, NULL); + show_stack(p, NULL); } void show_state(void)