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netfs: zero the tail of a short DIO/unbuffered readgrafted
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
+
+===============
+Tracing Remotes
+===============
+
+:Author: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
+
+Overview
+========
+Firmware and hypervisors are black boxes to the kernel. Having a way to see what
+they are doing can be useful to debug both. This is where remote tracing buffers
+come in. A remote tracing buffer is a ring buffer executed by the firmware or
+hypervisor into memory that is memory mapped to the host kernel. This is similar
+to how user space memory maps the kernel ring buffer but in this case the kernel
+is acting like user space and the firmware or hypervisor is the "kernel" side.
+With a trace remote ring buffer, the firmware and hypervisor can record events
+for which the host kernel can see and expose to user space.
+
+Register a remote
+=================
+A remote must provide a set of callbacks `struct trace_remote_callbacks` whom
+description can be found below. Those callbacks allows Tracefs to enable and
+disable tracing and events, to load and unload a tracing buffer (a set of
+ring-buffers) and to swap a reader page with the head page, which enables
+consuming reading.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/trace_remote.h
+
+Once registered, an instance will appear for this remote in the Tracefs
+directory **remotes/**. Buffers can then be read using the usual Tracefs files
+**trace_pipe** and **trace**.
+
+Declare a remote event
+======================
+Macros are provided to ease the declaration of remote events, in a similar
+fashion to in-kernel events. A declaration must provide an ID, a description of
+the event arguments and how to print the event:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ REMOTE_EVENT(foo, EVENT_FOO_ID,
+ RE_STRUCT(
+ re_field(u64, bar)
+ ),
+ RE_PRINTK("bar=%lld", __entry->bar)
+ );
+
+Then those events must be declared in a C file with the following:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ #define REMOTE_EVENT_INCLUDE_FILE foo_events.h
+ #include <trace/define_remote_events.h>
+
+This will provide a `struct remote_event remote_event_foo` that can be given to
+`trace_remote_register`.
+
+Registered events appear in the remote directory under **events/**.
+
+Simple ring-buffer
+==================
+A simple implementation for a ring-buffer writer can be found in
+kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/simple_ring_buffer.h