[PATCH 4/4] ring-buffer: change WARN_ON from checking preempt_count to preemptible

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 00:34:14 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

There's a WARN_ON in the ring buffer code that makes sure preemption
is disabled. It checks "!preempt_count()". But when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not
enabled, preempt_count() is always zero, and this will trigger the warning.

[ Impact: prevent false warning on non preemptible kernels ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 3ae5ccf..3611706 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ void ring_buffer_discard_commit(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
* committed yet. Thus we can assume that preemption
* is still disabled.
*/
- RB_WARN_ON(buffer, !preempt_count());
+ RB_WARN_ON(buffer, preemptible());

cpu = smp_processor_id();
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
--
1.6.2.4

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