From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Avoid the percpu softirq_runner pointer magic by using a task flag.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    1 +
 kernel/softirq.c      |   20 +++-----------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b0448fa..8313893 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1876,6 +1876,7 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, 
cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *
 #define PF_MEMALLOC    0x00000800      /* Allocating memory */
 #define PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED 0x00001000   /* set_user noticed that RLIMIT_NPROC 
was exceeded */
 #define PF_USED_MATH   0x00002000      /* if unset the fpu must be initialized 
before use */
+#define PF_IN_SOFTIRQ  0x00004000      /* Task is serving softirq */
 #define PF_NOFREEZE    0x00008000      /* this thread should not be frozen */
 #define PF_FROZEN      0x00010000      /* frozen for system suspend */
 #define PF_FSTRANS     0x00020000      /* inside a filesystem transaction */
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 34fe1db..2980048 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -383,7 +383,6 @@ static inline void ksoftirqd_clr_sched_params(void) { }
  * On RT we serialize softirq execution with a cpu local lock
  */
 static DEFINE_LOCAL_IRQ_LOCK(local_softirq_lock);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, local_softirq_runner);
 
 static void __do_softirq_common(int need_rcu_bh_qs);
 
@@ -438,22 +437,9 @@ void _local_bh_enable(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_local_bh_enable);
 
-/* For tracing */
-int notrace __in_softirq(void)
-{
-       if (__get_cpu_var(local_softirq_lock).owner == current)
-               return __get_cpu_var(local_softirq_lock).nestcnt;
-       return 0;
-}
-
 int in_serving_softirq(void)
 {
-       int res;
-
-       preempt_disable();
-       res = __get_cpu_var(local_softirq_runner) == current;
-       preempt_enable();
-       return res;
+       return current->flags & PF_IN_SOFTIRQ;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(in_serving_softirq);
 
@@ -471,7 +457,7 @@ static void __do_softirq_common(int need_rcu_bh_qs)
        /* Reset the pending bitmask before enabling irqs */
        set_softirq_pending(0);
 
-       __get_cpu_var(local_softirq_runner) = current;
+       current->flags |= PF_IN_SOFTIRQ;
 
        lockdep_softirq_enter();
 
@@ -482,7 +468,7 @@ static void __do_softirq_common(int need_rcu_bh_qs)
                wakeup_softirqd();
 
        lockdep_softirq_exit();
-       __get_cpu_var(local_softirq_runner) = NULL;
+       current->flags &= ~PF_IN_SOFTIRQ;
 
        current->softirq_nestcnt--;
 }
-- 
1.7.10.4

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