----- Original Message ----- > Hello Dave, > > On 09/30/2014 11:21 PM, Dave Anderson wrote: > > Regardless whether the cpu is online or not, the cpu's swapper task exists > > and is always runnable, so the output is showing its legitimate state. And > > since no other task is queued on the cpu's run queue, then it's essentially > > the "active" task on that cpu, waiting for it to come back online. I'm not > > sure why this is so bothersome to you? > > It bothers me because ps shows swapper task on offline cpu and other active > tasks are in the same style. What I want is to show it is different. I wish > to distinguish the swapper task on offline cpu directly without having to > check which cpu is offline firstly. > > I would like omitting ">" of idle task on offline cpu and adding "[OFFLINE]" > at the end of the line when "offline" set to "hide". And maybe you would like > adding "[OFFLINE]" at the end of those sleeping tasks of offline cpu as well. I really don't want to append [OFFLINE] to the line, because the task itself is not offline, but rather the cpu it is assigned to. How about just changing the ">" with "-"? Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility