On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM Sumanth Gavini sumanth.gavini@yahoo.com wrote:
Just following up on my patch submitted with subject "Subject: [PATCH 6.1] softirq: Add trace points for tasklet entry/exit".
Original message: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250812161755.609600-1-sumanth.gavini@yahoo.com...
Would you have any feedback on this change? I'd be happy to address any comments or concerns.
This patch fixes this three bugs
How does a patch adding a tracepoint fix the bugs highlighted here? It seems maybe it would help in debugging those issues, but I'm not sure I see how it would fix them.
This patch is related to linux 6.1/backports, the backports(https://syzkaller.appspot.com/linux-6.1/backports) I see this patch would fix these bugs. Let me know if my understand is wrong.
But that doesn't explain why or how it fixes the bugs. I'm not opposed to stable taking this, but the reasoning should be clear, if that is the motivation for including this change. I fret there is something incidental in this patch that avoids the problem, and that those issues may need a deeper fix rather then to hide them with this change.
thanks -john