[PATCH] workqueue: make alloc_workqueue() take printf fmt and args for name

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Nov 14 14:01:00 CST 2011


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:42:48AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Christoph, you probably were seeing the rescuer_task->comm in ps
> output.  wq->name currently is currently only used for error
> reporting.
> 
> I don't really mind this patch going through a different tree as I
> don't have any other wq changes scheduled at this point, so please
> feel free to route this through xfs or -mm.

Ben pointed the bug out in a patch that I'd like to get into 3.2
and -stable.  I'll probably repost it with a local workaround for now,
and will switch to the nicer interface later.




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