Ye olde fix task state reporting patch.

Ye olde fix task state reporting patch.

[davej]

(apologies to those Cc'd for the dupe, I typoed l-k first time round)

Going through my old pending merge folder, I rediscovered these
two gems which seem to have got lost somehow. Dan's seems to be partially
applied, but the latter hunk still seems relevant.


		Dave



 Date: 	Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:38:12 +0100
 From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
 Subject: PATCH: fix task state reporting

While running a test here, I noticed that some threads kept entering
"T" state according to ps aux.  However, rather than stop, they'd
disappear on the next process listing, as though they weren't stopped.

Further investigation revealed the following when suspending processes:

root      1497  3.8  1.7  1472  544 ttyp1    Z    00:05   0:21 find / -name pro

Yes, 'Z' for suspended, 'T' for zombie.  Something smells fishy here.

#define TASK_RUNNING		0
#define TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE	1
#define TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE	2
#define TASK_STOPPED		4
#define TASK_ZOMBIE		8
#define TASK_DEAD		16

So that's R S D T Z W, but sched.c contains R S D Z T W (Z and T
reversed).  This patch corrects sched.c.  (Should we correct
the order of bits in sched.h instead?)

--- orig/kernel/sched.c	Wed Oct 16 09:17:13 2002
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c	Thu Oct 17 21:32:42 2002
@@ -1798,7 +1798,7 @@
 	unsigned long free = 0;
 	task_t *relative;
 	int state;
-	static const char * stat_nam[] = { "R", "S", "D", "Z", "T", "W" };
+	static const char * stat_nam[] = { "R", "S", "D", "T", "Z", "W" };
 
 	printk("%-13.13s ", p->comm);
 	state = p->state ? __ffs(p->state) + 1 : 0;

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

 From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
 To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
 Subject: Re: PATCH: fix task state reporting

fs/proc/array.c needs the same fix.  I sent this to Ingo but he must
have lost my mail....

===== fs/proc/array.c 1.30 vs edited =====
--- 1.30/fs/proc/array.c	Mon Sep 30 05:06:43 2002
+++ edited/fs/proc/array.c	Tue Oct  1 13:45:13 2002
@@ -125,9 +125,9 @@
 	"R (running)",		/*  0 */
 	"S (sleeping)",		/*  1 */
 	"D (disk sleep)",	/*  2 */
-	"Z (zombie)",		/*  4 */
-	"T (stopped)",		/*  8 */
-	"W (paging)"		/* 16 */
+	"T (stopped)",		/*  4 */
+	"Z (zombie)",		/*  8 */
+	"X (dead)"		/* 16 */
 };
 
 static inline const char * get_task_state(struct task_struct *tsk)
@@ -135,8 +135,9 @@
 	unsigned int state = tsk->state & (TASK_RUNNING |
 					   TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE |
 					   TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE |
+					   TASK_STOPPED |
 					   TASK_ZOMBIE |
-					   TASK_STOPPED);
+					   TASK_DEAD);
 	const char **p = &task_state_array[0];
 
 	while (state) {