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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-09-13 12:27:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-09-13 12:27:00 -0700 |
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Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-tracegrafted
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Don't destroy user event fields when removal fails
User event fields are destroyed before the event is removed from
visibility. But that can fail leaving the still visible event with no
fields. Move the destroying of the fields to after the event is
successfully removed from visibility.
- Initialize function graph state is fork before calling
copy_exec_state()
For non-CLONE_VM forks, copy_exec_state() allocates a new
task_exec_state. If that allocation fails, ftrace_graph_exit_task()
will free the tasks ret_stack pointer. Since that pointer is still
using the parent's ret_stack, it mistakenly frees the parent's
pointer too.
Call ftrace_graph_init() on the task first which will NULL out the
new tasks's ret_stack and if the copy fails, it will not free
anything.
- Remove FGRAPH_MAX_INDEX
The macro FGRAPH_MAX_INDEX was added but never used. Remove it.
- Save ent_size in function graph printing of nested functions
The function graph tracer needs to look at the next event to see if
the next event is the return of the current function entry. If it is,
it prints a single line:
ktime_get();
Otherwise it prints it like a nested function:
tick_nohz_irq_exit() {
ktime_get();
kcpustat_irq_exit();
}
In order to look at the next event, it must save the current event so
that it has the information to print from it. It saves the event in
the iterator descriptor called "ent". What it doesn't save is the
ent_size of the event which is now used to know if the function graph
arguments are to be printed. The peek doesn't save the size so the
size used happens to be that of the size of the last event that was
seen.
Save the entry event size in the iterator descriptor so that the
correct size is used.
- Fix several errors with freeing data in the histogram code
The histogram code had a lot of leaked or or incorrect accounting
when failures happen. Correct them.
- Fix histogram regression of .percent and .graph modifiers
Up until 6.3 histogram values could have "percent" or "graph"
modifiers that changed how they were printed. But a change that added
restricting histograms values from being strings, stack traces and
other modifiers inadvertently prevented them from using the percent
and graph modifiers, which were legal use cases for values.
Put back the percent and graph modifiers.
- Fix various typos in the comments
- Set the trace_clock before initializing a histogram with clock
argument
The histogram API allows the user to specific which trace clock to
use via a "clock=" string. The histogram is set up first before the
clock is checked. If the passed in clock is not valid, it exits
without fully fixing up the histogram leaving it on the list and a
use-after-free can trigger.
Update the clock argument first and if it fails then exit gracefully
before the histogram trigger is placed on any lists.
- Restore :mod: trailer after parsing in ftrace_set_clr_event
The function ftrace_set_clr_event() modifies the parse string and
needs to put it back to what was passed in. It searches for ":mod:"
via a strsep() but fails to put back the first ':' in the string.
Add back the ':' in the passed in string.
- Take trace_array reference when opening a tracer options file
The options files are dynamically created and some tracers add their
own options. When a tracer adds their own list of options, the
trace_array holding them has an array to hold the list of options for
each tracer. This array increases in size via a krealloc(), and the
new entry gets a newly allocated array to hold the options of the new
tracer being added.
The element in each entry of the tracer's option array holds a
pointer back to the trace_array, a pointer to the tracer it is
associated to, a pointer to the flags of the option.
The issue is that these arrays are freed when the trace_array is
freed when its instance it represents is removed from the instances
directory. There's a race that an open of one of these options files
can happen when the instance is being removed.
Add a new helper function to be called by the open function of the
options file to iterate all existing trace_arrays under a lock and
find the one that has the given option element in one of it's tracer
arrays. If found, then update the associated trace_array's reference
counter to keep it from being freed. If not found, have the open call
return -ENODEV.
- Disable interrupts when acquiring the lock in rb_wake_up_waiters()
The function rb_wake_up_waiters() assumes it will be called in
interrupt context and does not disable irqs when taking
cpu_buffer->reader_lock, which can be called in hard interrupt
context. The issue is in PREEMPT_RT, this function is called in
thread context leaving this lock open to a deadlock.
Take the lock with interrupts disabled.
- Use rcu_assign_pointer() for tmp_ops filter hash
The tmp_ops used in update_ftrace_direct_mod() assigns its
filter_hash field directly, but that field is annotated as __rcu and
sparse complains. Assign it with rcu_assign_pointer()
- Fix use-after-free in enable_trigger_private_data_free()
The trace_event_call is accessed through the event_trigger_data's
trace_event_file pointer to put the trace_event_call on freeing. The
issue is that the trace_event_file data may have been freed already
causing a use-after-free. Add a field to the event_trigger_data that
points directly to the trace_event_call so that it can decrement its
reference directly without needing to go through the
trace_event_file.
- Fix accounting of buffer data remote headers
trace_buffer_desc_size() and trace_remote_alloc_buffer() undercount
the number of pages is needed for the asked for size as it doesn't
take into account the meta data on each page. Add a helper function
to do the calculation properly and use that in these functions.
- Catch nr_page_va overflow in ring_buffer_desc sizing
The number of pages per remote ring buffer is capped by
ring_buffer_desc::nr_page_va (32 bits). A buffer_size large enough to
overflow that field would silently allocate a descriptor smaller than
what was asked for.
- Do not resize the subbuf order if any per_cpu buffer is disabled
The mmapping of ring buffers disables resizing the subbuffers, but it
is done per-cpu whereas the subbuf size change is done for all the
per_cpu buffers under the buffer->mutex. It could change the size of
some while the mapping is happening on others. Have the resize of the
subbuf order check all the per_cpu buffers under the lock to see if
any of them is disabled before starting and causing an inconsistency
between buffers that are being mapped.
* tag 'trace-v7.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (25 commits)
ring-buffer: Check resize_disabled before publishing the new subbuf order
tracing/remotes: Catch nr_page_va overflow in ring_buffer_desc sizing
tracing/remotes: Account for ring buffer page header in size calculation
tracing: Don't dereference trace_event_file in deferred trigger free
ftrace: Use rcu_assign_pointer() for tmp_ops filter hash
ring-buffer: Acquire the lock with irqsave in rb_wake_up_waiters()
tracing: Take trace_array reference when opening a tracer options file
tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page_size() kernel-doc
tracing: Restore :mod: trailer after parsing in ftrace_set_clr_event()
tracing: Fix memory corruption from a "STACKTRACE" histogram key
tracing: Fix memory corruption from the histogram stacktrace modifier
tracing: Undo the registration when enabling the histogram trigger fails
tracing: Take the reference before publishing the named histogram trigger
tracing: Set the trace clock before registering the histogram trigger
tracing: Fix typo "preceeded" in comment
tracing: Fix typo "availabe" in comment
tracing: Let histogram values keep the percent and graph modifiers
tracing: Keep the entry count when the histogram stats allocation fails
tracing: Free histogram the field rejected for a bad modifier
tracing: Free histogram the var ref when its initialization fails
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/acpi/index.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/acpi/linuxized-acpica.rst | 279 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/acpi/scan_handlers.rst | 83 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ace0008e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +============ +ACPI Support +============ + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + linuxized-acpica + scan_handlers diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/linuxized-acpica.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/linuxized-acpica.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..317a68ed3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/linuxized-acpica.rst @@ -0,0 +1,279 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +============================================================ +Linuxized ACPICA - Introduction to ACPICA Release Automation +============================================================ + +:Copyright: |copy| 2013-2016, Intel Corporation + +:Author: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> + + +Abstract +======== +This document describes the ACPICA project and the relationship between +ACPICA and Linux. It also describes how ACPICA code in drivers/acpi/acpica, +include/acpi and tools/power/acpi is automatically updated to follow the +upstream. + +ACPICA Project +============== + +The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an operating +system (OS)-independent reference implementation of the Advanced +Configuration and Power Interface Specification (ACPI). It has been +adapted by various host OSes. By directly integrating ACPICA, Linux can +also benefit from the application experiences of ACPICA from other host +OSes. + +The homepage of ACPICA project is: www.acpica.org, it is maintained and +supported by Intel Corporation. + +The following figure depicts the Linux ACPI subsystem where the ACPICA +adaptation is included:: + + +---------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | +---------------------------------------------------+ | + | | +------------------+ | | + | | | Table Management | | | + | | +------------------+ | | + | | +----------------------+ | | + | | | Namespace Management | | | + | | +----------------------+ | | + | | +------------------+ ACPICA Components | | + | | | Event Management | | | + | | +------------------+ | | + | | +---------------------+ | | + | | | Resource Management | | | + | | +---------------------+ | | + | | +---------------------+ | | + | | | Hardware Management | | | + | | +---------------------+ | | + | +---------------------------------------------------+ | | + | | | +------------------+ | | | + | | | | OS Service Layer | | | | + | | | +------------------+ | | | + | | +-------------------------------------------------|-+ | + | | +--------------------+ | | + | | | Device Enumeration | | | + | | +--------------------+ | | + | | +------------------+ | | + | | | Power Management | | | + | | +------------------+ Linux/ACPI Components | | + | | +--------------------+ | | + | | | Thermal Management | | | + | | +--------------------+ | | + | | +--------------------------+ | | + | | | Drivers for ACPI Devices | | | + | | +--------------------------+ | | + | | +--------+ | | + | | | ...... | | | + | | +--------+ | | + | +---------------------------------------------------+ | + | | + +---------------------------------------------------------+ + + Figure 1. Linux ACPI Software Components + +.. note:: + A. OS Service Layer - Provided by Linux to offer OS dependent + implementation of the predefined ACPICA interfaces (acpi_os_*). + :: + + include/acpi/acpiosxf.h + drivers/acpi/osl.c + include/acpi/platform + include/asm/acenv.h + B. ACPICA Functionality - Released from ACPICA code base to offer + OS independent implementation of the ACPICA interfaces (acpi_*). + :: + + drivers/acpi/acpica + include/acpi/ac*.h + tools/power/acpi + C. Linux/ACPI Functionality - Providing Linux specific ACPI + functionality to the other Linux kernel subsystems and user space + programs. + :: + + drivers/acpi + include/linux/acpi.h + include/linux/acpi*.h + include/acpi + tools/power/acpi + D. Architecture Specific ACPICA/ACPI Functionalities - Provided by the + ACPI subsystem to offer architecture specific implementation of the + ACPI interfaces. They are Linux specific components and are out of + the scope of this document. + :: + + include/asm/acpi.h + include/asm/acpi*.h + arch/*/acpi + +ACPICA Release +============== + +The ACPICA project maintains its code base at the following repository URL: +https://github.com/open-acpica/acpica.git. As a rule, a release is made every +month. + +As the coding style adopted by the ACPICA project is not acceptable by +Linux, there is a release process to convert the ACPICA git commits into +Linux patches. The patches generated by this process are referred to as +"linuxized ACPICA patches". The release process is carried out on a local +copy the ACPICA git repository. Each commit in the monthly release is +converted into a linuxized ACPICA patch. Together, they form the monthly +ACPICA release patchset for the Linux ACPI community. This process is +illustrated in the following figure:: + + +-----------------------------+ + | acpica / master (-) commits | + +-----------------------------+ + /|\ | + | \|/ + | /---------------------\ +----------------------+ + | < Linuxize repo Utility >-->| old linuxized acpica |--+ + | \---------------------/ +----------------------+ | + | | + /---------\ | + < git reset > \ + \---------/ \ + /|\ /+-+ + | / | + +-----------------------------+ | | + | acpica / master (+) commits | | | + +-----------------------------+ | | + | | | + \|/ | | + /-----------------------\ +----------------------+ | | + < Linuxize repo Utilities >-->| new linuxized acpica |--+ | + \-----------------------/ +----------------------+ | + \|/ + +--------------------------+ /----------------------\ + | Linuxized ACPICA Patches |<----------------< Linuxize patch Utility > + +--------------------------+ \----------------------/ + | + \|/ + /---------------------------\ + < Linux ACPI Community Review > + \---------------------------/ + | + \|/ + +-----------------------+ /------------------\ +----------------+ + | linux-pm / linux-next |-->< Linux Merge Window >-->| linux / master | + +-----------------------+ \------------------/ +----------------+ + + Figure 2. ACPICA -> Linux Upstream Process + +.. note:: + A. Linuxize Utilities - Provided by the ACPICA repository, including a + utility located in source/tools/acpisrc folder and a number of + scripts located in generate/linux folder. + B. acpica / master - "master" branch of the git repository at + <https://github.com/open-acpica/acpica.git>. + C. linux-pm / linux-next - "linux-next" branch of the git repository at + <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git>. + D. linux / master - "master" branch of the git repository at + <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git>. + + Before the linuxized ACPICA patches are sent to the Linux ACPI community + for review, there is a quality assurance build test process to reduce + porting issues. Currently this build process only takes care of the + following kernel configuration options: + CONFIG_ACPI/CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG/CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER + +ACPICA Divergences +================== + +Ideally, all of the ACPICA commits should be converted into Linux patches +automatically without manual modifications, the "linux / master" tree should +contain the ACPICA code that exactly corresponds to the ACPICA code +contained in "new linuxized acpica" tree and it should be possible to run +the release process fully automatically. + +As a matter of fact, however, there are source code differences between +the ACPICA code in Linux and the upstream ACPICA code, referred to as +"ACPICA Divergences". + +The various sources of ACPICA divergences include: + 1. Legacy divergences - Before the current ACPICA release process was + established, there already had been divergences between Linux and + ACPICA. Over the past several years those divergences have been greatly + reduced, but there still are several ones and it takes time to figure + out the underlying reasons for their existence. + 2. Manual modifications - Any manual modification (eg. coding style fixes) + made directly in the Linux sources obviously hurts the ACPICA release + automation. Thus it is recommended to fix such issues in the ACPICA + upstream source code and generate the linuxized fix using the ACPICA + release utilities (please refer to Section 4 below for the details). + 3. Linux specific features - Sometimes it's impossible to use the + current ACPICA APIs to implement features required by the Linux kernel, + so Linux developers occasionally have to change ACPICA code directly. + Those changes may not be acceptable by ACPICA upstream and in such cases + they are left as committed ACPICA divergences unless the ACPICA side can + implement new mechanisms as replacements for them. + 4. ACPICA release fixups - ACPICA only tests commits using a set of the + user space simulation utilities, thus the linuxized ACPICA patches may + break the Linux kernel, leaving us build/boot failures. In order to + avoid breaking Linux bisection, fixes are applied directly to the + linuxized ACPICA patches during the release process. When the release + fixups are backported to the upstream ACPICA sources, they must follow + the upstream ACPICA rules and so further modifications may appear. + That may result in the appearance of new divergences. + 5. Fast tracking of ACPICA commits - Some ACPICA commits are regression + fixes or stable-candidate material, so they are applied in advance with + respect to the ACPICA release process. If such commits are reverted or + rebased on the ACPICA side in order to offer better solutions, new ACPICA + divergences are generated. + +ACPICA Development +================== + +This paragraph guides Linux developers to use the ACPICA upstream release +utilities to obtain Linux patches corresponding to upstream ACPICA commits +before they become available from the ACPICA release process. + + 1. Cherry-pick an ACPICA commit + + First you need to git clone the ACPICA repository and the ACPICA change + you want to cherry pick must be committed into the local repository. + + Then the gen-patch.sh command can help to cherry-pick an ACPICA commit + from the ACPICA local repository:: + + $ git clone https://github.com/open-acpica/acpica + $ cd acpica + $ generate/linux/gen-patch.sh -u [commit ID] + + Here the commit ID is the ACPICA local repository commit ID you want to + cherry pick. It can be omitted if the commit is "HEAD". + + 2. Cherry-pick recent ACPICA commits + + Sometimes you need to rebase your code on top of the most recent ACPICA + changes that haven't been applied to Linux yet. + + You can generate the ACPICA release series yourself and rebase your code on + top of the generated ACPICA release patches:: + + $ git clone https://github.com/open-acpica/acpica + $ cd acpica + $ generate/linux/make-patches.sh -u [commit ID] + + The commit ID should be the last ACPICA commit accepted by Linux. Usually, + it is the commit modifying ACPI_CA_VERSION. It can be found by executing + "git blame source/include/acpixf.h" and referencing the line that contains + "ACPI_CA_VERSION". + + 3. Inspect the current divergences + + If you have local copies of both Linux and upstream ACPICA, you can generate + a diff file indicating the state of the current divergences:: + + # git clone https://github.com/open-acpica/acpica + # git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git + # cd acpica + # generate/linux/divergence.sh -s ../linux diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/scan_handlers.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/scan_handlers.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7a197b3a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/acpi/scan_handlers.rst @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +================== +ACPI Scan Handlers +================== + +:Copyright: |copy| 2012, Intel Corporation + +:Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> + +During system initialization and ACPI-based device hot-add, the ACPI namespace +is scanned in search of device objects that generally represent various pieces +of hardware. This causes a struct acpi_device object to be created and +registered with the driver core for every device object in the ACPI namespace +and the hierarchy of those struct acpi_device objects reflects the namespace +layout (i.e. parent device objects in the namespace are represented by parent +struct acpi_device objects and analogously for their children). Those struct +acpi_device objects are referred to as "device nodes" in what follows, but they +should not be confused with struct device_node objects used by the Device Trees +parsing code (although their role is analogous to the role of those objects). + +During ACPI-based device hot-remove device nodes representing pieces of hardware +being removed are unregistered and deleted. + +The core ACPI namespace scanning code in drivers/acpi/scan.c carries out basic +initialization of device nodes, such as retrieving common configuration +information from the device objects represented by them and populating them with +appropriate data, but some of them require additional handling after they have +been registered. For example, if the given device node represents a PCI host +bridge, its registration should cause the PCI bus under that bridge to be +enumerated and PCI devices on that bus to be registered with the driver core. +Similarly, if the device node represents a PCI interrupt link, it is necessary +to configure that link so that the kernel can use it. + +Those additional configuration tasks usually depend on the type of the hardware +component represented by the given device node which can be determined on the +basis of the device node's hardware ID (HID). They are performed by objects +called ACPI scan handlers represented by the following structure:: + + struct acpi_scan_handler { + const struct acpi_device_id *ids; + struct list_head list_node; + int (*attach)(struct acpi_device *dev, const struct acpi_device_id *id); + void (*detach)(struct acpi_device *dev); + }; + +where ids is the list of IDs of device nodes the given handler is supposed to +take care of, list_node is the hook to the global list of ACPI scan handlers +maintained by the ACPI core and the .attach() and .detach() callbacks are +executed, respectively, after registration of new device nodes and before +unregistration of device nodes the handler attached to previously. + +The namespace scanning function, acpi_bus_scan(), first registers all of the +device nodes in the given namespace scope with the driver core. Then, it tries +to match a scan handler against each of them using the ids arrays of the +available scan handlers. If a matching scan handler is found, its .attach() +callback is executed for the given device node. If that callback returns 1, +that means that the handler has claimed the device node and is now responsible +for carrying out any additional configuration tasks related to it. It also will +be responsible for preparing the device node for unregistration in that case. +The device node's handler field is then populated with the address of the scan +handler that has claimed it. + +If the .attach() callback returns 0, it means that the device node is not +interesting to the given scan handler and may be matched against the next scan +handler in the list. If it returns a (negative) error code, that means that +the namespace scan should be terminated due to a serious error. The error code +returned should then reflect the type of the error. + +The namespace trimming function, acpi_bus_trim(), first executes .detach() +callbacks from the scan handlers of all device nodes in the given namespace +scope (if they have scan handlers). Next, it unregisters all of the device +nodes in that scope. + +ACPI scan handlers can be added to the list maintained by the ACPI core with the +help of the acpi_scan_add_handler() function taking a pointer to the new scan +handler as an argument. The order in which scan handlers are added to the list +is the order in which they are matched against device nodes during namespace +scans. + +All scan handles must be added to the list before acpi_bus_scan() is run for the +first time and they cannot be removed from it. |
