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Subject[PATCH 4.4 52/57] tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results
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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>

commit c59f29cb144a6a0dfac16ede9dc8eafc02dc56ca upstream.

The 's' flag is supposed to indicate that a softirq is running. This
can be detected by testing the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_OFFSET.

The current code tests the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_MASK, which
would be true even when softirqs are disabled but not serving a
softirq.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481300417-3564-1-git-send-email-pkondeti@codeaurora.org

Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1660,7 +1660,7 @@ tracing_generic_entry_update(struct trac
TRACE_FLAG_IRQS_NOSUPPORT |
#endif
((pc & HARDIRQ_MASK) ? TRACE_FLAG_HARDIRQ : 0) |
- ((pc & SOFTIRQ_MASK) ? TRACE_FLAG_SOFTIRQ : 0) |
+ ((pc & SOFTIRQ_OFFSET) ? TRACE_FLAG_SOFTIRQ : 0) |
(tif_need_resched() ? TRACE_FLAG_NEED_RESCHED : 0) |
(test_preempt_need_resched() ? TRACE_FLAG_PREEMPT_RESCHED : 0);
}

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