[PATCH v2] sched: print parent comm in sched_show_task()

From: Tio Zhang
Date: Thu Jan 19 2023 - 06:06:57 EST


Knowing who the parent is might be useful for debugging.
For example, we can sometimes resolve kernel hung tasks by stopping
the person who begins those hung tasks.
With the parent's name printed in sched_show_task(),
it might be helpful to let people know which "service" should be operated.
Also, we move the parent info to a following new line while keeping the
original line the same.
And we would print "parent:unknown ppid:<NULL>"
when the task is not alive.

Signed-off-by: Tio Zhang <tiozhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index cb2aa2b54c7a..5690a5700f9e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8854,6 +8854,7 @@ void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long free = 0;
int ppid;
+ char *pcomm = NULL;

if (!try_get_task_stack(p))
return;
@@ -8867,13 +8868,22 @@ void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
#endif
ppid = 0;
rcu_read_lock();
- if (pid_alive(p))
- ppid = task_pid_nr(rcu_dereference(p->real_parent));
+ if (pid_alive(p)) {
+ struct task_struct *parent = rcu_dereference(p->real_parent);
+
+ ppid = task_pid_nr(parent);
+ pcomm = parent->comm;
+ }
rcu_read_unlock();
pr_cont(" stack:%-5lu pid:%-5d ppid:%-6d flags:0x%08lx\n",
free, task_pid_nr(p), ppid,
read_task_thread_flags(p));

+ if (!ppid)
+ pr_info("parent:unknown ppid:<NULL>\n");
+ else
+ pr_info("parent:%-15.15s ppid:%-6d\n", pcomm, ppid);
+
print_worker_info(KERN_INFO, p);
print_stop_info(KERN_INFO, p);
show_stack(p, NULL, KERN_INFO);
--
2.17.1