rename the ksoftirqd kernel thread.

Martin Hicks (mort@wildopensource.com)
Thu, 15 May 2003 17:17:16 -0400


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(); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/