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. Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkond...@codeaurora.org> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index ae68222..1d0f1a1 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1685,7 +1685,7 @@ tracing_generic_entry_update(struct trace_entry *entry, unsigned long flags, 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); } -- Qualcomm India Private Limited, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.