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/virtio/virtio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. _virtio:
+
+===============
+Virtio on Linux
+===============
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+Virtio is an open standard that defines a protocol for communication
+between drivers and devices of different types, see Chapter 5 ("Device
+Types") of the virtio spec (`[1]`_). Originally developed as a standard
+for paravirtualized devices implemented by a hypervisor, it can be used
+to interface any compliant device (real or emulated) with a driver.
+
+For illustrative purposes, this document will focus on the common case
+of a Linux kernel running in a virtual machine and using paravirtualized
+devices provided by the hypervisor, which exposes them as virtio devices
+via standard mechanisms such as PCI.
+
+
+Device - Driver communication: virtqueues
+=========================================
+
+Although the virtio devices are really an abstraction layer in the
+hypervisor, they're exposed to the guest as if they are physical devices
+using a specific transport method -- PCI, MMIO or CCW -- that is
+orthogonal to the device itself. The virtio spec defines these transport
+methods in detail, including device discovery, capabilities and
+interrupt handling.
+
+The communication between the driver in the guest OS and the device in
+the hypervisor is done through shared memory (that's what makes virtio
+devices so efficient) using specialized data structures called
+virtqueues, which are actually ring buffers [#f1]_ of buffer descriptors
+similar to the ones used in a network device:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
+    :identifiers: struct vring_desc
+
+All the buffers the descriptors point to are allocated by the guest and
+used by the host either for reading or for writing but not for both.
+
+Refer to Chapter 2.5 ("Virtqueues") of the virtio spec (`[1]`_) for the
+reference definitions of virtqueues and "Virtqueues and virtio ring: How
+the data travels" blog post (`[2]`_) for an illustrated overview of how
+the host device and the guest driver communicate.
+
+The :c:type:`vring_virtqueue` struct models a virtqueue, including the
+ring buffers and management data. Embedded in this struct is the
+:c:type:`virtqueue` struct, which is the data structure that's
+ultimately used by virtio drivers:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/virtio.h
+    :identifiers: struct virtqueue
+
+The callback function pointed by this struct is triggered when the
+device has consumed the buffers provided by the driver. More
+specifically, the trigger will be an interrupt issued by the hypervisor
+(see vring_interrupt()). Interrupt request handlers are registered for
+a virtqueue during the virtqueue setup process (transport-specific).
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+    :identifiers: vring_interrupt
+
+
+Device discovery and probing
+============================
+
+In the kernel, the virtio core contains the virtio bus driver and
+transport-specific drivers like `virtio-pci` and `virtio-mmio`. Then
+there are individual virtio drivers for specific device types that are
+registered to the virtio bus driver.
+
+How a virtio device is found and configured by the kernel depends on how
+the hypervisor defines it. Taking the `QEMU virtio-console
+<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/master/hw/char/virtio-console.c>`__
+device as an example. When using PCI as a transport method, the device
+will present itself on the PCI bus with vendor 0x1af4 (Red Hat, Inc.)
+and device id 0x1003 (virtio console), as defined in the spec, so the
+kernel will detect it as it would do with any other PCI device.
+
+During the PCI enumeration process, if a device is found to match the
+virtio-pci driver (according to the virtio-pci device table, any PCI
+device with vendor id = 0x1af4)::
+
+	/* Qumranet donated their vendor ID for devices 0x1000 thru 0x10FF. */
+	static const struct pci_device_id virtio_pci_id_table[] = {
+		{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REDHAT_QUMRANET, PCI_ANY_ID) },
+		{ 0 }
+	};
+
+then the virtio-pci driver is probed and, if the probing goes well, the
+device is registered to the virtio bus::
+
+	static int virtio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
+				    const struct pci_device_id *id)
+	{
+		...
+
+		if (force_legacy) {
+			rc = virtio_pci_legacy_probe(vp_dev);
+			/* Also try modern mode if we can't map BAR0 (no IO space). */
+			if (rc == -ENODEV || rc == -ENOMEM)
+				rc = virtio_pci_modern_probe(vp_dev);
+			if (rc)
+				goto err_probe;
+		} else {
+			rc = virtio_pci_modern_probe(vp_dev);
+			if (rc == -ENODEV)
+				rc = virtio_pci_legacy_probe(vp_dev);
+			if (rc)
+				goto err_probe;
+		}
+
+		...
+
+		rc = register_virtio_device(&vp_dev->vdev);
+
+When the device is registered to the virtio bus the kernel will look
+for a driver in the bus that can handle the device and call that
+driver's ``probe`` method.
+
+At this point, the virtqueues will be allocated and configured by
+calling the appropriate ``virtio_find`` helper function, such as
+virtio_find_single_vq() or virtio_find_vqs(), which will end up calling
+a transport-specific ``find_vqs`` method.
+
+
+References
+==========
+
+_`[1]` Virtio Spec v1.2:
+https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.2/virtio-v1.2.html
+
+.. Check for later versions of the spec as well.
+
+_`[2]` Virtqueues and virtio ring: How the data travels
+https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/virtqueues-and-virtio-ring-how-data-travels
+
+.. rubric:: Footnotes
+
+.. [#f1] that's why they may be also referred to as virtrings.