From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:30:00 -0500 Subject: posix-timers: Shorten posix_cpu_timers/ kernel thread names Shorten the softirq kernel thread names because they always overflow the limited comm length, appearing as "posix_cpu_timer" CPU# times. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-stable/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c =================================================================== --- linux-stable.orig/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ linux-stable/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ 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;