Say you've had a soft lockup, the kernel has paniced either by your setting or a forced coredump, how can you tell which process is on which CPU.
# crash ./vmcore
>ps
PID PPID CPU TASK ST %MEM VSZ RSS COMM> 0 0 0 ffffffff802e5ae0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 1 ffff81083006e100 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 2 ffff81010eb26080 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 3 ffff81083e11a080 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
0 1 4 ffff8104300787a0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 5 ffff810c3e1d87e0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 6 ffff81043e15a820 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 7 ffff810c3e200860 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 8 ffff81043e209860 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 9 ffff810c3e2727e0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 10 ffff81043e21c7e0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 11 ffff810c3e275860 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 12 ffff81043e2a8820 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 13 ffff810c3e2e87e0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 14 ffff81043e2b17a0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
> 0 1 15 ffff810c3e2eb860 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper]
1 0 11 ffff81083006b040 UN 0.0 10344 684 init
The tasks that have a > to the left are the processes that are in the RUN state (that means on the CPU right now).
The CPU column aligned to the task is the surprisingly the CPU that the process was on (or was last on). Too easy.