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 <[email protected]>
--- 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;