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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-30 09:22:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-30 09:22:00 -0700 |
| commit | 034dd340b08be1f2f0477ad16131d609f9dbd53c (patch) | |
| tree | 2536f4b2d7893ccd916b5abdf3c454ad6edc03c2 /Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst | |
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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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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e98b21b60 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst @@ -0,0 +1,232 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================ +EISA bus support +================ + +:Author: Marc Zyngier <maz@wild-wind.fr.eu.org> + +This document groups random notes about porting EISA drivers to the +new EISA/sysfs API. + +Starting from version 2.5.59, the EISA bus is almost given the same +status as other much more mainstream buses such as PCI or USB. This +has been possible through sysfs, which defines a nice enough set of +abstractions to manage buses, devices and drivers. + +Although the new API is quite simple to use, converting existing +drivers to the new infrastructure is not an easy task (mostly because +detection code is generally also used to probe ISA cards). Moreover, +most EISA drivers are among the oldest Linux drivers so, as you can +imagine, some dust has settled here over the years. + +The EISA infrastructure is made up of three parts: + + - The bus code implements most of the generic code. It is shared + among all the architectures that the EISA code runs on. It + implements bus probing (detecting EISA cards available on the bus), + allocates I/O resources, allows fancy naming through sysfs, and + offers interfaces for driver to register. + + - The bus root driver implements the glue between the bus hardware + and the generic bus code. It is responsible for discovering the + device implementing the bus, and setting it up to be latter probed + by the bus code. This can go from something as simple as reserving + an I/O region on x86, to the rather more complex, like the hppa + EISA code. This is the part to implement in order to have EISA + running on an "new" platform. + + - The driver offers the bus a list of devices that it manages, and + implements the necessary callbacks to probe and release devices + whenever told to. + +Every function/structure below lives in <linux/eisa.h>, which depends +heavily on <linux/device.h>. + +Bus root driver +=============== + +:: + + int eisa_root_register (struct eisa_root_device *root); + +The eisa_root_register function is used to declare a device as the +root of an EISA bus. The eisa_root_device structure holds a reference +to this device, as well as some parameters for probing purposes:: + + struct eisa_root_device { + struct device *dev; /* Pointer to bridge device */ + struct resource *res; + unsigned long bus_base_addr; + int slots; /* Max slot number */ + int force_probe; /* Probe even when no slot 0 */ + u64 dma_mask; /* from bridge device */ + int bus_nr; /* Set by eisa_root_register */ + struct resource eisa_root_res; /* ditto */ + }; + +============= ====================================================== +node used for eisa_root_register internal purpose +dev pointer to the root device +res root device I/O resource +bus_base_addr slot 0 address on this bus +slots max slot number to probe +force_probe Probe even when slot 0 is empty (no EISA mainboard) +dma_mask Default DMA mask. Usually the bridge device dma_mask. +bus_nr unique bus id, set by eisa_root_register +============= ====================================================== + +Driver +====== + +:: + + int eisa_driver_register (struct eisa_driver *edrv); + void eisa_driver_unregister (struct eisa_driver *edrv); + +Clear enough ? + +:: + + struct eisa_device_id { + char sig[EISA_SIG_LEN]; + unsigned long driver_data; + }; + + struct eisa_driver { + const struct eisa_device_id *id_table; + struct device_driver driver; + }; + +=============== ==================================================== +id_table an array of NULL terminated EISA id strings, + followed by an empty string. Each string can + optionally be paired with a driver-dependent value + (driver_data). + +driver a generic driver, such as described in + Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/driver.rst. Only .name, + .probe and .remove members are mandatory. +=============== ==================================================== + +An example is the 3c59x driver:: + + static struct eisa_device_id vortex_eisa_ids[] = { + { "TCM5920", EISA_3C592_OFFSET }, + { "TCM5970", EISA_3C597_OFFSET }, + { "" } + }; + + static struct eisa_driver vortex_eisa_driver = { + .id_table = vortex_eisa_ids, + .driver = { + .name = "3c59x", + .probe = vortex_eisa_probe, + .remove = vortex_eisa_remove + } + }; + +Device +====== + +The sysfs framework calls .probe and .remove functions upon device +discovery and removal (note that the .remove function is only called +when driver is built as a module). + +Both functions are passed a pointer to a 'struct device', which is +encapsulated in a 'struct eisa_device' described as follows:: + + struct eisa_device { + struct eisa_device_id id; + int slot; + int state; + unsigned long base_addr; + struct resource res[EISA_MAX_RESOURCES]; + u64 dma_mask; + struct device dev; /* generic device */ + }; + +======== ============================================================ +id EISA id, as read from device. id.driver_data is set from the + matching driver EISA id. +slot slot number which the device was detected on +state set of flags indicating the state of the device. Current + flags are EISA_CONFIG_ENABLED and EISA_CONFIG_FORCED. +res set of four 256 bytes I/O regions allocated to this device +dma_mask DMA mask set from the parent device. +dev generic device (see Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/device.rst) +======== ============================================================ + +You can get the 'struct eisa_device' from 'struct device' using the +'to_eisa_device' macro. + +Misc stuff +========== + +:: + + void eisa_set_drvdata (struct eisa_device *edev, void *data); + +Stores data into the device's driver_data area. + +:: + + void *eisa_get_drvdata (struct eisa_device *edev): + +Gets the pointer previously stored into the device's driver_data area. + +:: + + int eisa_get_region_index (void *addr); + +Returns the region number (0 <= x < EISA_MAX_RESOURCES) of a given +address. + +Kernel parameters +================= + +eisa_bus.enable_dev + A comma-separated list of slots to be enabled, even if the firmware + set the card as disabled. The driver must be able to properly + initialize the device in such conditions. + +eisa_bus.disable_dev + A comma-separated list of slots to be disabled, even if the firmware + set the card as enabled. The driver won't be called to handle this + device. + +virtual_root.force_probe + Force the probing code to probe EISA slots even when it cannot find an + EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaults to 0 + (don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when + CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING is set. + +Random notes +============ + +Converting an EISA driver to the new API mostly involves *deleting* +code (since probing is now in the core EISA code). Unfortunately, most +drivers share their probing routine between ISA, and EISA. Special +care must be taken when ripping out the EISA code, so other buses +won't suffer from these surgical strikes... + +You *must not* expect any EISA device to be detected when returning +from eisa_driver_register, since the chances are that the bus has not +yet been probed. In fact, that's what happens most of the time (the +bus root driver usually kicks in rather late in the boot process). +Unfortunately, most drivers are doing the probing by themselves, and +expect to have explored the whole machine when they exit their probe +routine. + +For example, switching your favorite EISA SCSI card to the "hotplug" +model is "the right thing"(tm). + +Thanks +====== + +I'd like to thank the following people for their help: + +- Xavier Benigni for lending me a wonderful Alpha Jensen, +- James Bottomley, Jeff Garzik for getting this stuff into the kernel, +- Andries Brouwer for contributing numerous EISA ids, +- Catrin Jones for coping with far too many machines at home. |
