Re: RFC for patch to add task_{set,get}_name RPC

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le Thu 09 May 2013 01:55:56 +0200, a écrit :
> But the point is that I don't know which mapping I want to see.  I just
> happen to notice from the kernel that a given task does a erroneous
> thing.  From there, how to continue debugging without knowing which
> userland process was doing that?

This is also the reason why the Linux kernel now prints 
foo[pid]: segfault at 1234 ip 1234 sp 1234 error 6 in foo[1234+1000]
it helps a lot to know that a process actually has segfaulted, and which
one, within the flurry of processes we now have in our systems.

Samuel