Shorten the softirq kernel thread names because they always overflow the limited comm length, appearing as "posix_cpu_timer" CPU# times. Done on 2.6.24.7, but probably applicable to later kernels. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.24.7.orig/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c 2008-08-12 20:40:58.000000000 -0300 +++ linux-2.6.24.7/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c 2008-08-12 20:52:27.000000000 -0300 @@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ static int posix_cpu_thread_call(struct switch (action) { case CPU_UP_PREPARE: p = kthread_create(posix_cpu_timers_thread, hcpu, - "posix_cpu_timers/%d",cpu); + "posixcputmr/%d",cpu); if (IS_ERR(p)) return NOTIFY_BAD; p->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html