On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 06:04:08AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote:

There're many truncated kthreads in the kernel, which may make trouble
for the user, for example, the user can't get detailed device
information from the task comm.

This patchset tries to improve this problem fundamentally by extending
the task comm size from 16 to 24, which is a very simple way. 

[...]

Hi,

I've tried something like this a few years back. My attempt got mostly
lost in the mailing lists, but I'm still carrying the patches in my
tree [1]. My target was userspace thread names, and it turned out more
involved than I had time for.

[1] https://rere.qmqm.pl/git/?p=linux;a=commit;h=2c3814268caf2b1fee6d1a0b61fd1730ce135d4a
    and its parents

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław