DLPX-87579 sdb: use drgn helper for task states #341
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= Problem
Currently having our own custom function for figuring out a task's state has two drawbacks:
1] As we saw in a2bdd57 things can
get out of date and it is up to us to fix them.
2] There are some weird edge cases that we don't handle as well
like the following crash that I have never been able to reproduce
locally but it occasionally reproduces in the Github runners
of PR #337:
= This Patch
Uses the drgn helper whose implementation handles more edge cases and is more probable to stay up to date with the latest kernels while keeping backwards compatibility.
= Testing
The above stack trace that I was able to reproduce consistently in that PR no longer shows up with this patch. Additionally our regression dumps show no signs of regressions introduced by this commit.