Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] extend task comm from 16 to 24

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On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 06:04:08AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote:
> There're many truncated kthreads in the kernel, which may make trouble
> for the user, for example, the user can't get detailed device
> information from the task comm.
> 
> This patchset tries to improve this problem fundamentally by extending
> the task comm size from 16 to 24, which is a very simple way. 
[...]

Hi,

I've tried something like this a few years back. My attempt got mostly
lost in the mailing lists, but I'm still carrying the patches in my
tree [1]. My target was userspace thread names, and it turned out more
involved than I had time for.

[1] https://rere.qmqm.pl/git/?p=linux;a=commit;h=2c3814268caf2b1fee6d1a0b61fd1730ce135d4a
    and its parents

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław



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