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Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-tracegrafted
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Fix error output of boot instance creation failure Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by strsep(). Print the saved name instead. While at it, print the error code of the failure. - Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events. But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate histogram and crash the kernel. Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram data. - Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error returned. - Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring buffer sub-buffer size. - Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false. Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized upon creation. - Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed. - Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state. It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still using it. In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will not free the parent's descriptor. - Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a failed replacement leaves it at -1. But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it. - Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING. * tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei() tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop() tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
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+What: /sys/class/tty/console/active
+Date: Nov 2010
+Contact: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
+Description:
+ Shows the list of currently configured
+ console devices, like 'tty1 ttyS0'.
+ The last entry in the file is the active
+ device connected to /dev/console.
+ The file supports poll() to detect virtual
+ console switches.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/tty<x>/active
+Date: Nov 2010
+Contact: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
+Description:
+ Shows the currently active virtual console
+ device, like 'tty1'.
+ The file supports poll() to detect virtual
+ console switches.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/uartclk
+Date: Sep 2012
+Contact: Tomas Hlavacek <tmshlvck@gmail.com>
+Description:
+ Shows the current uartclk value associated with the
+ UART port in serial_core, that is bound to TTY like ttyS0.
+ uartclk = 16 * baud_base
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/type
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Shows the current tty type for this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/line
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Shows the current tty line number for this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/port
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Shows the current tty port I/O address for this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/irq
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Shows the current primary interrupt for this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/flags
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Show the tty port status flags for this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/xmit_fifo_size
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Show the transmit FIFO size for this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/close_delay
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Show the closing delay time for this port in centiseconds.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/closing_wait
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Show the close wait time for this port in centiseconds.
+
+ Waiting forever is represented as 0. If waiting on close is
+ disabled then the value is 65535.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/custom_divisor
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Show the custom divisor if any that is set on this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/io_type
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Show the I/O type that is to be used with the iomem base
+ address.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/iomem_base
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ The I/O memory base for this port.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/iomem_reg_shift
+Date: October 2012
+Contact: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Show the register shift indicating the spacing to be used
+ for accesses on this iomem address.
+
+ These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+ sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/rx_trig_bytes
+Date: May 2014
+Contact: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
+Description:
+ Shows current RX interrupt trigger bytes or sets the
+ user specified value to change it for the FIFO buffer.
+ Users can show or set this value regardless of opening the
+ serial device file or not.
+
+ The RX trigger can be set one of four kinds of values for UART
+ serials. When users input a meaning less value to this I/F,
+ the RX trigger is changed to the nearest lower value for the
+ device specification. For example, when user sets 7bytes on
+ 16550A, which has 1/4/8/14 bytes trigger, the RX trigger is
+ automatically changed to 4 bytes.
+
+What: /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/console
+Date: February 2020
+Contact: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
+Description:
+ Allows user to detach or attach back the given device as
+ kernel console. It shows and accepts a boolean variable.