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Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot
Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel
Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter as well as finishing off the folio conversion in the NILFS2 code. This is intended to help out particularly with Linux servers as a health metric for administrators to gauge if there may be software/hardware problems at play if encountering a number of unexpected hung tasks. Also part of today's non-MM pull are clean-ups to the resource management code and finishing off the folio conversion for the NILFS2 file-system.
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