Re: [PATCH 6.1] softirq: Add trace points for tasklet entry/exit

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM Sumanth Gavini sumanth.gavini@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi Thomas, John,

Thanks for the feedback. Just to clarify — my intention here was only to backport the already accepted upstream changes into this branch. I do not plan to introduce any additional modifications or syzbot-only patches.

Might be good to revisit: https://docs.kernel.org/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

And, assuming you feel like it still might be needed, you might add some annotation before your signed-off-by line to clarify your motivation for submitting it, ie: how it "fix[es] a real bug that bothers people".

Adding tracepoints definitely feels more like a feature, not a bug fix.

thanks -john