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The buffered read collector zero-fills the tail of a short read that stops below the inode's i_size (netfs_clear_unread()), so a read that races an extending write still returns the expected number of bytes. The non-buffered collector path does no such thing: it just records how much was transferred. Add the same zero-fill for the non-buffered case, gated on NETFS_SREQ_CLEAR_TAIL: a subreq's source sets that flag when a short result from it is known to be safe to treat as a hole, as opposed to NETFS_SREQ_HIT_EOF, which means the read genuinely ran off the end of the file and should be reported short as-is. Only CLEAR_TAIL should zero-fill here; a real EOF must stay a real short read. No source currently sets CLEAR_TAIL on an unbuffered/DIO subrequest, so this is inert on its own -- a following change teaches cifs to set it in the one case that needs it. Fixes: e2d46f2ec332 ("netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item") Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com> Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=======================
+Intel(R) Trace Hub (TH)
+=======================
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+Intel(R) Trace Hub (TH) is a set of hardware blocks that produce,
+switch and output trace data from multiple hardware and software
+sources over several types of trace output ports encoded in System
+Trace Protocol (MIPI STPv2) and is intended to perform full system
+debugging. For more information on the hardware, see Intel(R) Trace
+Hub developer's manual [1].
+
+It consists of trace sources, trace destinations (outputs) and a
+switch (Global Trace Hub, GTH). These devices are placed on a bus of
+their own ("intel_th"), where they can be discovered and configured
+via sysfs attributes.
+
+Currently, the following Intel TH subdevices (blocks) are supported:
+ - Software Trace Hub (STH), trace source, which is a System Trace
+ Module (STM) device,
+ - Memory Storage Unit (MSU), trace output, which allows storing
+ trace hub output in system memory,
+ - Parallel Trace Interface output (PTI), trace output to an external
+ debug host via a PTI port,
+ - Global Trace Hub (GTH), which is a switch and a central component
+ of Intel(R) Trace Hub architecture.
+
+Common attributes for output devices are described in
+Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-intel_th-output-devices, the most
+notable of them is "active", which enables or disables trace output
+into that particular output device.
+
+GTH allows directing different STP masters into different output ports
+via its "masters" attribute group. More detailed GTH interface
+description is at Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-intel_th-devices-gth.
+
+STH registers an stm class device, through which it provides interface
+to userspace and kernelspace software trace sources. See
+Documentation/trace/stm.rst for more information on that.
+
+MSU can be configured to collect trace data into a system memory
+buffer, which can later on be read from its device nodes via read() or
+mmap() interface and directed to a "software sink" driver that will
+consume the data and/or relay it further.
+
+On the whole, Intel(R) Trace Hub does not require any special
+userspace software to function; everything can be configured, started
+and collected via sysfs attributes, and device nodes.
+
+[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/d3/3c/intel-th-developer-manual.pdf
+
+Bus and Subdevices
+------------------
+
+For each Intel TH device in the system a bus of its own is
+created and assigned an id number that reflects the order in which TH
+devices were enumerated. All TH subdevices (devices on intel_th bus)
+begin with this id: 0-gth, 0-msc0, 0-msc1, 0-pti, 0-sth, which is
+followed by device's name and an optional index.
+
+Output devices also get a device node in /dev/intel_thN, where N is
+the Intel TH device id. For example, MSU's memory buffers, when
+allocated, are accessible via /dev/intel_th0/msc{0,1}.
+
+Quick example
+-------------
+
+# figure out which GTH port is the first memory controller::
+
+ $ cat /sys/bus/intel_th/devices/0-msc0/port
+ 0
+
+# looks like it's port 0, configure master 33 to send data to port 0::
+
+ $ echo 0 > /sys/bus/intel_th/devices/0-gth/masters/33
+
+# allocate a 2-windowed multiblock buffer on the first memory
+# controller, each with 64 pages::
+
+ $ echo multi > /sys/bus/intel_th/devices/0-msc0/mode
+ $ echo 64,64 > /sys/bus/intel_th/devices/0-msc0/nr_pages
+
+# enable wrapping for this controller, too::
+
+ $ echo 1 > /sys/bus/intel_th/devices/0-msc0/wrap
+
+# and enable tracing into this port::
+
+ $ echo 1 > /sys/bus/intel_th/devices/0-msc0/active
+
+# .. send data to master 33, see stm.txt for more details ..
+# .. wait for traces to pile up ..
+# .. and stop the trace::
+
+ $ echo 0 > /sys/bus/intel_th/devices/0-msc0/active
+
+# and now you can collect the trace from the device node::
+
+ $ cat /dev/intel_th0/msc0 > my_stp_trace
+
+Host Debugger Mode
+------------------
+
+It is possible to configure the Trace Hub and control its trace
+capture from a remote debug host, which should be connected via one of
+the hardware debugging interfaces, which will then be used to both
+control Intel Trace Hub and transfer its trace data to the debug host.
+
+The driver needs to be told that such an arrangement is taking place
+so that it does not touch any capture/port configuration and avoids
+conflicting with the debug host's configuration accesses. The only
+activity that the driver will perform in this mode is collecting
+software traces to the Software Trace Hub (an stm class device). The
+user is still responsible for setting up adequate master/channel
+mappings that the decoder on the receiving end would recognize.
+
+In order to enable the host mode, set the 'host_mode' parameter of the
+'intel_th' kernel module to 'y'. None of the virtual output devices
+will show up on the intel_th bus. Also, trace configuration and
+capture controlling attribute groups of the 'gth' device will not be
+exposed. The 'sth' device will operate as usual.
+
+Software Sinks
+--------------
+
+The Memory Storage Unit (MSU) driver provides an in-kernel API for
+drivers to register themselves as software sinks for the trace data.
+Such drivers can further export the data via other devices, such as
+USB device controllers or network cards.
+
+The API has two main parts::
+ - notifying the software sink that a particular window is full, and
+ "locking" that window, that is, making it unavailable for the trace
+ collection; when this happens, the MSU driver will automatically
+ switch to the next window in the buffer if it is unlocked, or stop
+ the trace capture if it's not;
+ - tracking the "locked" state of windows and providing a way for the
+ software sink driver to notify the MSU driver when a window is
+ unlocked and can be used again to collect trace data.
+
+An example sink driver, msu-sink illustrates the implementation of a
+software sink. Functionally, it simply unlocks windows as soon as they
+are full, keeping the MSU running in a circular buffer mode. Unlike the
+"multi" mode, it will fill out all the windows in the buffer as opposed
+to just the first one. It can be enabled by writing "sink" to the "mode"
+file (assuming msu-sink.ko is loaded).