workqueue: Show the latest workqueue name in /proc/PID/{comm,stat,status}
There can be a lot of workqueue workers and they all show up with the
cryptic kworker/* names making it difficult to understand which is
doing what and how they came to be.
  # ps -ef | grep kworker
  root           4       2  0 Feb25 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/0:0H]
  root           6       2  0 Feb25 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/u112:0]
  root          19       2  0 Feb25 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/1:0H]
  root          25       2  0 Feb25 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/2:0H]
  root          31       2  0 Feb25 ?        00:00:00 [kworker/3:0H]
  ...
This patch makes workqueue workers report the latest workqueue it was
executing for through /proc/PID/{comm,stat,status}.  The extra
information is appended to the kthread name with intervening '+' if
currently executing, otherwise '-'.
  # cat /proc/25/comm
  kworker/2:0-events_power_efficient
  # cat /proc/25/stat
  25 (kworker/2:0-events_power_efficient) I 2 0 0 0 -1 69238880 0 0...
  # grep Name /proc/25/status
  Name:   kworker/2:0-events_power_efficient
Unfortunately, ps(1) truncates comm to 15 characters,
  # ps 25
    PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
     25 ?        I      0:00 [kworker/2:0-eve]
making it a lot less useful; however, this should be an easy fix from
ps(1) side.
Signed-off-by:  Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
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