ftrace: make the task state char-string visible to all

The tracer wants to be able to convert the state number
into a user visible character. This patch pulls that conversion
string out the scheduler into the header. This way if it were to
ever change, other parts of the kernel will know.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 717cab8a0c83..6e26f1fdbfe2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2237,6 +2237,8 @@ static inline void mm_init_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_MM_OWNER */
 
+#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtZX"
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 463dcdb36ef8..73e600852365 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5729,7 +5729,7 @@ out_unlock:
         return retval;
 }
 
-static const char stat_nam[] = "RSDTtZX";
+static const char stat_nam[] = TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR;
 
 void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
 {