Hi Dave,
I just wanted to report a minor issue.
The -t option on the 'ps' command will return invalid values for newer
kernels.
I believe that this has to do with newer kernels around the 3.17
timeframe having the 'start_time' field in the task_struct structure
changed from being a 'struct timespec' to being a 'u64' value.
I'm using a 4.1 based kernel. (The 3.16 based kernel that I also tried
it on does not exhibit this issue.)
For example:
crash> ps -t 1
PID: 1 TASK: ffff88046d688000 CPU: 8 COMMAND: "systemd"
RUN TIME: 213503982286 days, 08:28:04
START TIME: 126000000
UTIME: 486536482
STIME: 8484707060
I'm afraid that I do not possess the skill to suggest a fix,
but I thought that I would mention it.
Thanks for reading this.