On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 08:53:10PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > Sometimes we want to get tasks in TASK_RUNNING sepcifically, > instead of dump all tasks. > For example, when the loadavg are high, we want to dump > tasks in TASK_RUNNING and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which contribute > to system load. But mostly there're lots of tasks in Sleep state, > which occupies almost all of the kernel log buffer, even overflows > it, that causes the useful messages get lost. Although we can > enlarge the kernel log buffer, but that's not a good idea. > > So I made this change to make the show_state_filter more flexible, > and then we can dump the tasks in TASK_RUNNING specifically.
It reads like magic and I really don't see the point.
