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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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+===================================
+Writing s390 channel device drivers
+===================================
+
+:Author: Cornelia Huck
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that
+drive s390 based channel attached I/O devices. This includes interfaces
+for interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with
+the common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common
+I/O layer.
+
+The document assumes a familarity with the technical terms associated
+with the s390 channel I/O architecture. For a description of this
+architecture, please refer to the "z/Architecture: Principles of
+Operation", IBM publication no. SA22-7832.
+
+While most I/O devices on a s390 system are typically driven through the
+channel I/O mechanism described here, there are various other methods
+(like the diag interface). These are out of the scope of this document.
+
+The s390 common I/O layer also provides access to some devices that are
+not strictly considered I/O devices. They are considered here as well,
+although they are not the focus of this document.
+
+Some additional information can also be found in the kernel source under
+Documentation/arch/s390/driver-model.rst.
+
+The css bus
+===========
+
+The css bus contains the subchannels available on the system. They fall
+into several categories:
+
+* Standard I/O subchannels, for use by the system. They have a child
+ device on the ccw bus and are described below.
+* I/O subchannels bound to the vfio-ccw driver. See
+ Documentation/arch/s390/vfio-ccw.rst.
+* Message subchannels. No Linux driver currently exists.
+* CHSC subchannels (at most one). The chsc subchannel driver can be used
+ to send asynchronous chsc commands.
+* eADM subchannels. Used for talking to storage class memory.
+
+The ccw bus
+===========
+
+The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to a
+s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic
+command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains
+so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via I/O
+subchannels, visible on the css bus. A device driver for
+channel-attached devices, however, will never interact with the
+subchannel directly, but only via the I/O device on the ccw bus, the ccw
+device.
+
+I/O functions for channel-attached devices
+------------------------------------------
+
+Some hardware structures have been translated into C structures for use
+by the common I/O layer and device drivers. For more information on the
+hardware structures represented here, please consult the Principles of
+Operation.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h
+ :internal:
+
+ccw devices
+-----------
+
+Devices that want to initiate channel I/O need to attach to the ccw bus.
+Interaction with the driver core is done via the common I/O layer, which
+provides the abstractions of ccw devices and ccw device drivers.
+
+The functions that initiate or terminate channel I/O all act upon a ccw
+device structure. Device drivers must not bypass those functions or
+strange side effects may happen.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/ccwdev.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/device.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c
+ :export:
+
+The channel-measurement facility
+--------------------------------
+
+The channel-measurement facility provides a means to collect measurement
+data which is made available by the channel subsystem for each channel
+attached device.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/cmb.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c
+ :export:
+
+The ccwgroup bus
+================
+
+The ccwgroup bus only contains artificial devices, created by the user.
+Many networking devices (e.g. qeth) are in fact composed of several ccw
+devices (like read, write and data channel for qeth). The ccwgroup bus
+provides a mechanism to create a meta-device which contains those ccw
+devices as slave devices and can be associated with the netdevice.
+
+ccw group devices
+-----------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/ccwgroup.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c
+ :export:
+
+Generic interfaces
+==================
+
+The following section contains interfaces in use not only by drivers
+dealing with ccw devices, but drivers for various other s390 hardware
+as well.
+
+Adapter interrupts
+------------------
+
+The common I/O layer provides helper functions for dealing with adapter
+interrupts and interrupt vectors.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/airq.c
+ :export: