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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix single-depth wchan output
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Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 07:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>>How about adding a /proc/<PID>/stacktrace file that gives us the stack 
>>trace of any task in the system? That would be useful for a number of 
>>other purposes as well, and about 100 times more useful than wchan. 
>>(often it would be more useful than sysrq-t dumps)
> 
> 
> But this is a great idea, of course.

Agreed.  I know some apps designers that would love to get their hands 
on something like that...



Chris
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