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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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+================================
+Devres - Managed Device Resource
+================================
+
+Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
+
+First draft 10 January 2007
+
+.. contents
+
+ 1. Intro : Huh? Devres?
+ 2. Devres : Devres in a nutshell
+ 3. Devres Group : Group devres'es and release them together
+ 4. Details : Life time rules, calling context, ...
+ 5. Overhead : How much do we have to pay for this?
+ 6. List of managed interfaces: Currently implemented managed interfaces
+
+
+1. Intro
+--------
+
+devres came up while trying to convert libata to use iomap. Each
+iomapped address should be kept and unmapped on driver detach. For
+example, a plain SFF ATA controller (that is, good old PCI IDE) in
+native mode makes use of 5 PCI BARs and all of them should be
+maintained.
+
+As with many other device drivers, libata low level drivers have
+sufficient bugs in ->remove and ->probe failure path. Well, yes,
+that's probably because libata low level driver developers are lazy
+bunch, but aren't all low level driver developers? After spending a
+day fiddling with braindamaged hardware with no document or
+braindamaged document, if it's finally working, well, it's working.
+
+For one reason or another, low level drivers don't receive as much
+attention or testing as core code, and bugs on driver detach or
+initialization failure don't happen often enough to be noticeable.
+Init failure path is worse because it's much less travelled while
+needs to handle multiple entry points.
+
+So, many low level drivers end up leaking resources on driver detach
+and having half broken failure path implementation in ->probe() which
+would leak resources or even cause oops when failure occurs. iomap
+adds more to this mix. So do msi and msix.
+
+
+2. Devres
+---------
+
+devres is basically linked list of arbitrarily sized memory areas
+associated with a struct device. Each devres entry is associated with
+a release function. A devres can be released in several ways. No
+matter what, all devres entries are released on driver detach. On
+release, the associated release function is invoked and then the
+devres entry is freed.
+
+Managed interface is created for resources commonly used by device
+drivers using devres. For example, coherent DMA memory is acquired
+using dma_alloc_coherent(). The managed version is called
+dmam_alloc_coherent(). It is identical to dma_alloc_coherent() except
+for the DMA memory allocated using it is managed and will be
+automatically released on driver detach. Implementation looks like
+the following::
+
+ struct dma_devres {
+ size_t size;
+ void *vaddr;
+ dma_addr_t dma_handle;
+ };
+
+ static void dmam_coherent_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
+ {
+ struct dma_devres *this = res;
+
+ dma_free_coherent(dev, this->size, this->vaddr, this->dma_handle);
+ }
+
+ dmam_alloc_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, gfp)
+ {
+ struct dma_devres *dr;
+ void *vaddr;
+
+ dr = devres_alloc(dmam_coherent_release, sizeof(*dr), gfp);
+ ...
+
+ /* alloc DMA memory as usual */
+ vaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(...);
+ ...
+
+ /* record size, vaddr, dma_handle in dr */
+ dr->vaddr = vaddr;
+ ...
+
+ devres_add(dev, dr);
+
+ return vaddr;
+ }
+
+If a driver uses dmam_alloc_coherent(), the area is guaranteed to be
+freed whether initialization fails half-way or the device gets
+detached. If most resources are acquired using managed interface, a
+driver can have much simpler init and exit code. Init path basically
+looks like the following::
+
+ my_init_one()
+ {
+ struct mydev *d;
+
+ d = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*d), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!d)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ d->ring = dmam_alloc_coherent(...);
+ if (!d->ring)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ if (check something)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ ...
+
+ return register_to_upper_layer(d);
+ }
+
+And exit path::
+
+ my_remove_one()
+ {
+ unregister_from_upper_layer(d);
+ shutdown_my_hardware();
+ }
+
+As shown above, low level drivers can be simplified a lot by using
+devres. Complexity is shifted from less maintained low level drivers
+to better maintained higher layer. Also, as init failure path is
+shared with exit path, both can get more testing.
+
+Note though that when converting current calls or assignments to
+managed devm_* versions it is up to you to check if internal operations
+like allocating memory, have failed. Managed resources pertains to the
+freeing of these resources *only* - all other checks needed are still
+on you. In some cases this may mean introducing checks that were not
+necessary before moving to the managed devm_* calls.
+
+
+3. Devres group
+---------------
+
+Devres entries can be grouped using devres group. When a group is
+released, all contained normal devres entries and properly nested
+groups are released. One usage is to rollback series of acquired
+resources on failure. For example::
+
+ if (!devres_open_group(dev, NULL, GFP_KERNEL))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ acquire A;
+ if (failed)
+ goto err;
+
+ acquire B;
+ if (failed)
+ goto err;
+ ...
+
+ devres_remove_group(dev, NULL);
+ return 0;
+
+ err:
+ devres_release_group(dev, NULL);
+ return err_code;
+
+As resource acquisition failure usually means probe failure, constructs
+like above are usually useful in midlayer driver (e.g. libata core
+layer) where interface function shouldn't have side effect on failure.
+For LLDs, just returning error code suffices in most cases.
+
+Each group is identified by `void *id`. It can either be explicitly
+specified by @id argument to devres_open_group() or automatically
+created by passing NULL as @id as in the above example. In both
+cases, devres_open_group() returns the group's id. The returned id
+can be passed to other devres functions to select the target group.
+If NULL is given to those functions, the latest open group is
+selected.
+
+For example, you can do something like the following::
+
+ int my_midlayer_create_something()
+ {
+ if (!devres_open_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_something, GFP_KERNEL))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ...
+
+ devres_close_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_something);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ void my_midlayer_destroy_something()
+ {
+ devres_release_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_something);
+ }
+
+
+4. Details
+----------
+
+Lifetime of a devres entry begins on devres allocation and finishes
+when it is released or destroyed (removed and freed) - no reference
+counting.
+
+devres core guarantees atomicity to all basic devres operations and
+has support for single-instance devres types (atomic
+lookup-and-add-if-not-found). Other than that, synchronizing
+concurrent accesses to allocated devres data is caller's
+responsibility. This is usually non-issue because bus ops and
+resource allocations already do the job.
+
+For an example of single-instance devres type, read pcim_iomap_table()
+in lib/devres.c.
+
+All devres interface functions can be called without context if the
+right gfp mask is given.
+
+
+5. Overhead
+-----------
+
+Each devres bookkeeping info is allocated together with requested data
+area. With debug option turned off, bookkeeping info occupies 16
+bytes on 32bit machines and 24 bytes on 64bit (three pointers rounded
+up to ull alignment). If singly linked list is used, it can be
+reduced to two pointers (8 bytes on 32bit, 16 bytes on 64bit).
+
+Each devres group occupies 8 pointers. It can be reduced to 6 if
+singly linked list is used.
+
+Memory space overhead on ahci controller with two ports is between 300
+and 400 bytes on 32bit machine after naive conversion (we can
+certainly invest a bit more effort into libata core layer).
+
+
+6. List of managed interfaces
+-----------------------------
+
+CLOCK
+ devm_clk_get()
+ devm_clk_get_optional()
+ devm_clk_put()
+ devm_clk_bulk_get()
+ devm_clk_bulk_get_all()
+ devm_clk_bulk_get_enable()
+ devm_clk_bulk_get_optional()
+ devm_get_clk_from_child()
+ devm_clk_hw_register()
+ devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider()
+ devm_clk_hw_register_clkdev()
+
+DMA
+ dmaenginem_async_device_register()
+ dmam_alloc_coherent()
+ dmam_alloc_attrs()
+ dmam_free_coherent()
+ dmam_pool_create()
+ dmam_pool_destroy()
+
+DRM
+ devm_drm_dev_alloc()
+
+GPIO
+ devm_gpiod_get()
+ devm_gpiod_get_array()
+ devm_gpiod_get_array_optional()
+ devm_gpiod_get_index()
+ devm_gpiod_get_index_optional()
+ devm_gpiod_get_optional()
+ devm_gpiod_put()
+ devm_gpiod_unhinge()
+ devm_gpiochip_add_data()
+ devm_gpio_request_one()
+
+I2C
+ devm_i2c_add_adapter()
+ devm_i2c_new_dummy_device()
+
+IIO
+ devm_iio_device_alloc()
+ devm_iio_device_register()
+ devm_iio_dmaengine_buffer_setup()
+ devm_iio_kfifo_buffer_setup()
+ devm_iio_kfifo_buffer_setup_ext()
+ devm_iio_map_array_register()
+ devm_iio_triggered_buffer_setup()
+ devm_iio_triggered_buffer_setup_ext()
+ devm_iio_trigger_alloc()
+ devm_iio_trigger_register()
+ devm_iio_channel_get()
+ devm_iio_channel_get_all()
+ devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc()
+ devm_fwnode_iio_channel_get_by_name()
+
+INPUT
+ devm_input_allocate_device()
+
+IO region
+ devm_release_mem_region()
+ devm_release_region()
+ devm_release_resource()
+ devm_request_mem_region()
+ devm_request_free_mem_region()
+ devm_request_region()
+ devm_request_resource()
+
+IOMAP
+ devm_ioport_map()
+ devm_ioport_unmap()
+ devm_ioremap()
+ devm_ioremap_uc()
+ devm_ioremap_wc()
+ devm_ioremap_resource() : checks resource, requests memory region, ioremaps
+ devm_ioremap_resource_wc()
+ devm_platform_ioremap_resource() : calls devm_ioremap_resource() for platform device
+ devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname()
+ devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource()
+ devm_iounmap()
+
+ Note: For the PCI devices the specific pcim_*() functions may be used, see below.
+
+IRQ
+ devm_free_irq()
+ devm_request_any_context_irq()
+ devm_request_irq()
+ devm_request_threaded_irq()
+ devm_irq_alloc_descs()
+ devm_irq_alloc_desc()
+ devm_irq_alloc_desc_at()
+ devm_irq_alloc_desc_from()
+ devm_irq_alloc_descs_from()
+ devm_irq_alloc_generic_chip()
+ devm_irq_setup_generic_chip()
+ devm_irq_domain_create_sim()
+
+LED
+ devm_led_classdev_register()
+ devm_led_classdev_register_ext()
+ devm_led_classdev_unregister()
+ devm_led_trigger_register()
+ devm_of_led_get()
+
+MDIO
+ devm_mdiobus_alloc()
+ devm_mdiobus_alloc_size()
+ devm_mdiobus_register()
+ devm_of_mdiobus_register()
+
+MEM
+ devm_free_pages()
+ devm_get_free_pages()
+ devm_kasprintf()
+ devm_kcalloc()
+ devm_kfree()
+ devm_kmalloc()
+ devm_kmalloc_array()
+ devm_kmemdup()
+ devm_krealloc()
+ devm_krealloc_array()
+ devm_kstrdup()
+ devm_kstrdup_const()
+ devm_kvasprintf()
+ devm_kzalloc()
+
+MFD
+ devm_mfd_add_devices()
+
+MUX
+ devm_mux_chip_alloc()
+ devm_mux_chip_register()
+ devm_mux_control_get()
+ devm_mux_state_get()
+
+NET
+ devm_alloc_etherdev()
+ devm_alloc_etherdev_mqs()
+ devm_register_netdev()
+
+PER-CPU MEM
+ devm_alloc_percpu()
+
+PCI
+ devm_pci_alloc_host_bridge() : managed PCI host bridge allocation
+ devm_pci_remap_cfgspace() : ioremap PCI configuration space
+ devm_pci_remap_cfg_resource() : ioremap PCI configuration space resource
+
+ pcim_enable_device() : after success, the PCI device gets disabled automatically on driver detach
+ pcim_iomap() : do iomap() on a single BAR
+ pcim_iomap_regions() : do request_region() and iomap() on multiple BARs
+ pcim_iomap_table() : array of mapped addresses indexed by BAR
+ pcim_iounmap() : do iounmap() on a single BAR
+ pcim_pin_device() : keep PCI device enabled after release
+ pcim_set_mwi() : enable Memory-Write-Invalidate PCI transaction
+
+PHY
+ devm_usb_get_phy()
+ devm_usb_get_phy_by_node()
+ devm_usb_get_phy_by_phandle()
+
+PINCTRL
+ devm_pinctrl_get()
+ devm_pinctrl_put()
+ devm_pinctrl_get_select()
+ devm_pinctrl_register()
+ devm_pinctrl_register_and_init()
+
+POWER
+ devm_reboot_mode_register()
+ devm_reboot_mode_unregister()
+
+PWM
+ devm_pwmchip_alloc()
+ devm_pwmchip_add()
+ devm_pwm_get()
+ devm_fwnode_pwm_get()
+
+REGULATOR
+ devm_regulator_bulk_register_supply_alias()
+ devm_regulator_bulk_get()
+ devm_regulator_bulk_get_const()
+ devm_regulator_bulk_get_enable()
+ devm_regulator_bulk_put()
+ devm_regulator_get()
+ devm_regulator_get_enable()
+ devm_regulator_get_enable_read_voltage()
+ devm_regulator_get_enable_optional()
+ devm_regulator_get_exclusive()
+ devm_regulator_get_optional()
+ devm_regulator_irq_helper()
+ devm_regulator_put()
+ devm_regulator_register()
+ devm_regulator_register_notifier()
+ devm_regulator_register_supply_alias()
+ devm_regulator_unregister_notifier()
+
+RESET
+ devm_reset_control_get()
+ devm_reset_controller_register()
+
+RTC
+ devm_rtc_device_register()
+ devm_rtc_allocate_device()
+ devm_rtc_register_device()
+ devm_rtc_nvmem_register()
+
+SERDEV
+ devm_serdev_device_open()
+
+SLAVE DMA ENGINE
+ devm_acpi_dma_controller_register()
+
+SPI
+ devm_spi_alloc_host()
+ devm_spi_alloc_target()
+ devm_spi_optimize_message()
+ devm_spi_register_controller()
+ devm_spi_register_host()
+ devm_spi_register_target()
+
+WATCHDOG
+ devm_watchdog_register_device()
+
+WORKQUEUE
+ devm_alloc_workqueue()
+ devm_alloc_ordered_workqueue()