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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/pci/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/index.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============================================
+The Linux PCI driver implementer's API guide
+============================================
+
+.. toctree::
+ :caption: Table of contents
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ pci
+ p2pdma
+ tsm
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============================
+PCI Peer-to-Peer DMA Support
+============================
+
+The PCI bus has pretty decent support for performing DMA transfers
+between two devices on the bus. This type of transaction is henceforth
+called Peer-to-Peer (or P2P). However, there are a number of issues that
+make P2P transactions tricky to do in a perfectly safe way.
+
+For PCIe the routing of Transaction Layer Packets (TLPs) is well-defined up
+until they reach a host bridge or root port. If the path includes PCIe switches
+then based on the ACS settings the transaction can route entirely within
+the PCIe hierarchy and never reach the root port. The kernel will evaluate
+the PCIe topology and always permit P2P in these well-defined cases.
+
+However, if the P2P transaction reaches the host bridge then it might have to
+hairpin back out the same root port, be routed inside the CPU SOC to another
+PCIe root port, or routed internally to the SOC.
+
+The PCIe specification doesn't define the forwarding of transactions between
+hierarchy domains and kernel defaults to blocking such routing. There is an
+allow list to allow detecting known-good HW, in which case P2P between any
+two PCIe devices will be permitted.
+
+Since P2P inherently is doing transactions between two devices it requires two
+drivers to be co-operating inside the kernel. The providing driver has to convey
+its MMIO to the consuming driver. To meet the driver model lifecycle rules the
+MMIO must have all DMA mapping removed, all CPU accesses prevented, all page
+table mappings undone before the providing driver completes remove().
+
+This requires the providing and consuming driver to actively work together to
+guarantee that the consuming driver has stopped using the MMIO during a removal
+cycle. This is done by either a synchronous invalidation shutdown or waiting
+for all usage refcounts to reach zero.
+
+At the lowest level the P2P subsystem offers a naked struct p2p_provider that
+delegates lifecycle management to the providing driver. It is expected that
+drivers using this option will wrap their MMIO memory in DMABUF and use DMABUF
+to provide an invalidation shutdown. These MMIO addresses have no struct page, and
+if used with mmap() must create special PTEs. As such there are very few
+kernel uAPIs that can accept pointers to them; in particular they cannot be used
+with read()/write(), including O_DIRECT.
+
+Building on this, the subsystem offers a layer to wrap the MMIO in a ZONE_DEVICE
+pgmap of MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA to create struct pages. The lifecycle of
+pgmap ensures that when the pgmap is destroyed all other drivers have stopped
+using the MMIO. This option works with O_DIRECT flows, in some cases, if the
+underlying subsystem supports handling MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA through
+FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA. The use of FOLL_LONGTERM is prevented. As this relies on pgmap
+it also relies on architecture support along with alignment and minimum size
+limitations.
+
+
+Driver Writer's Guide
+=====================
+
+In a given P2P implementation there may be three or more different
+types of kernel drivers in play:
+
+* Provider - A driver which provides or publishes P2P resources like
+ memory or doorbell registers to other drivers.
+* Client - A driver which makes use of a resource by setting up a
+ DMA transaction to or from it.
+* Orchestrator - A driver which orchestrates the flow of data between
+ clients and providers.
+
+In many cases there could be overlap between these three types (i.e.,
+it may be typical for a driver to be both a provider and a client).
+
+For example, in the NVMe Target Copy Offload implementation:
+
+* The NVMe PCI driver is both a client, provider and orchestrator
+ in that it exposes any CMB (Controller Memory Buffer) as a P2P memory
+ resource (provider), it accepts P2P memory pages as buffers in requests
+ to be used directly (client) and it can also make use of the CMB as
+ submission queue entries (orchestrator).
+* The RDMA driver is a client in this arrangement so that an RNIC
+ can DMA directly to the memory exposed by the NVMe device.
+* The NVMe Target driver (nvmet) can orchestrate the data from the RNIC
+ to the P2P memory (CMB) and then to the NVMe device (and vice versa).
+
+This is currently the only arrangement supported by the kernel but
+one could imagine slight tweaks to this that would allow for the same
+functionality. For example, if a specific RNIC added a BAR with some
+memory behind it, its driver could add support as a P2P provider and
+then the NVMe Target could use the RNIC's memory instead of the CMB
+in cases where the NVMe cards in use do not have CMB support.
+
+
+Provider Drivers
+----------------
+
+A provider simply needs to register a BAR (or a portion of a BAR)
+as a P2P DMA resource using :c:func:`pci_p2pdma_add_resource()`.
+This will register struct pages for all the specified memory.
+
+After that it may optionally publish all of its resources as
+P2P memory using :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_publish()`. This will allow
+any orchestrator drivers to find and use the memory. When marked in
+this way, the resource must be regular memory with no side effects.
+
+For the time being this is fairly rudimentary in that all resources
+are typically going to be P2P memory. Future work will likely expand
+this to include other types of resources like doorbells.
+
+
+Client Drivers
+--------------
+
+A client driver only has to use the mapping API :c:func:`dma_map_sg()`
+and :c:func:`dma_unmap_sg()` functions as usual, and the implementation
+will do the right thing for the P2P capable memory.
+
+
+Orchestrator Drivers
+--------------------
+
+The first task an orchestrator driver must do is compile a list of
+all client devices that will be involved in a given transaction. For
+example, the NVMe Target driver creates a list including the namespace
+block device and the RNIC in use. If the orchestrator has access to
+a specific P2P provider to use it may check compatibility using
+:c:func:`pci_p2pdma_distance()` otherwise it may find a memory provider
+that's compatible with all clients using :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_find()`.
+If more than one provider is supported, the one nearest to all the clients will
+be chosen first. If more than one provider is an equal distance away, the
+one returned will be chosen at random (it is not an arbitrary but
+truly random). This function returns the PCI device to use for the provider
+with a reference taken and therefore when it's no longer needed it should be
+returned with pci_dev_put().
+
+Once a provider is selected, the orchestrator can then use
+:c:func:`pci_alloc_p2pmem()` and :c:func:`pci_free_p2pmem()` to
+allocate P2P memory from the provider. :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_alloc_sgl()`
+and :c:func:`pci_p2pmem_free_sgl()` are convenience functions for
+allocating scatter-gather lists with P2P memory.
+
+Struct Page Caveats
+-------------------
+
+While the MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA pages can be installed in VMAs,
+pin_user_pages() and related will not return them unless FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA is set.
+
+The MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA pages require care to support in the kernel. The
+KVA is still MMIO and must still be accessed through the normal
+readX()/writeX()/etc helpers. Direct CPU access (e.g. memcpy) is forbidden, just
+like any other MMIO mapping. While this will actually work on some
+architectures, others will experience corruption or just crash in the kernel.
+Supporting FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA in a subsystem requires scrubbing it to ensure no CPU
+access happens.
+
+
+Usage With DMABUF
+=================
+
+DMABUF provides an alternative to the above struct page-based
+client/provider/orchestrator system and should be used when struct page
+doesn't exist. In this mode the exporting driver will wrap
+some of its MMIO in a DMABUF and give the DMABUF FD to userspace.
+
+Userspace can then pass the FD to an importing driver which will ask the
+exporting driver to map it to the importer.
+
+In this case the initiator and target pci_devices are known and the P2P subsystem
+is used to determine the mapping type. The phys_addr_t-based DMA API is used to
+establish the dma_addr_t.
+
+Lifecycle is controlled by DMABUF move_notify(). When the exporting driver wants
+to remove() it must deliver an invalidation shutdown to all DMABUF importing
+drivers through move_notify() and synchronously DMA unmap all the MMIO.
+
+No importing driver can continue to have a DMA map to the MMIO after the
+exporting driver has destroyed its p2p_provider.
+
+
+P2P DMA Support Library
+=======================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
+ :export:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci.rst
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+PCI Support Library
+-------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/pci.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/iomap.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/devres.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/remove.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/search.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/msi/msi.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/bus.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/access.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/irq.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/probe.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/slot.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/rebar.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/rom.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/iov.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/tph.c
+ :export:
+
+PCI Hotplug Support Library
+---------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c
+ :export:
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pci/tsm.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pci/tsm.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+========================================================
+PCI Trusted Execution Environment Security Manager (TSM)
+========================================================
+
+Subsystem Interfaces
+====================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pci-ide.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/ide.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pci-tsm.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pci/tsm.c
+ :export: