From 034dd340b08be1f2f0477ad16131d609f9dbd53c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:22:00 -0700 Subject: Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace 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 --- Documentation/i2c/slave-interface.rst | 201 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 201 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/i2c/slave-interface.rst (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/slave-interface.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface.rst b/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3f0d320bc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface.rst @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ +===================================== +Linux I2C slave interface description +===================================== + +by Wolfram Sang in 2014-15 + +Linux can also be an I2C slave if the I2C controller in use has slave +functionality. For that to work, one needs slave support in the bus driver plus +a hardware independent software backend providing the actual functionality. An +example for the latter is the slave-eeprom driver, which acts as a dual memory +driver. While another I2C master on the bus can access it like a regular +EEPROM, the Linux I2C slave can access the content via sysfs and handle data as +needed. The backend driver and the I2C bus driver communicate via events. Here +is a small graph visualizing the data flow and the means by which data is +transported. The dotted line marks only one example. The backend could also +use a character device, be in-kernel only, or something completely different:: + + + e.g. sysfs I2C slave events I/O registers + +-----------+ v +---------+ v +--------+ v +------------+ + | Userspace +........+ Backend +-----------+ Driver +-----+ Controller | + +-----------+ +---------+ +--------+ +------------+ + | | + ----------------------------------------------------------------+-- I2C + --------------------------------------------------------------+---- Bus + +Note: Technically, there is also the I2C core between the backend and the +driver. However, at this time of writing, the layer is transparent. + + +User manual +=========== + +I2C slave backends behave like standard I2C clients. So, you can instantiate +them as described in the document instantiating-devices.rst. The only +difference is that i2c slave backends have their own address space. So, you +have to add 0x1000 to the address you would originally request. An example for +instantiating the slave-eeprom driver from userspace at the 7 bit address 0x64 +on bus 1:: + + # echo slave-24c02 0x1064 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device + +Each backend should come with separate documentation to describe its specific +behaviour and setup. + + +Developer manual +================ + +First, the events which are used by the bus driver and the backend will be +described in detail. After that, some implementation hints for extending bus +drivers and writing backends will be given. + + +I2C slave events +---------------- + +The bus driver sends an event to the backend using the following function:: + + ret = i2c_slave_event(client, event, &val) + +'client' describes the I2C slave device. 'event' is one of the special event +types described hereafter. 'val' holds an u8 value for the data byte to be +read/written and is thus bidirectional. The pointer to val must always be +provided even if val is not used for an event, i.e. don't use NULL here. 'ret' +is the return value from the backend. Mandatory events must be provided by the +bus drivers and must be checked for by backend drivers. + +Event types: + +* I2C_SLAVE_WRITE_REQUESTED (mandatory) + + 'val': unused + + 'ret': 0 if the backend is ready, otherwise some errno + +Another I2C master wants to write data to us. This event should be sent once +our own address and the write bit was detected. The data did not arrive yet, so +there is nothing to process or return. After returning, the bus driver must +always ack the address phase. If 'ret' is zero, backend initialization or +wakeup is done and further data may be received. If 'ret' is an errno, the bus +driver should nack all incoming bytes until the next stop condition to enforce +a retry of the transmission. + +* I2C_SLAVE_READ_REQUESTED (mandatory) + + 'val': backend returns first byte to be sent + + 'ret': always 0 + +Another I2C master wants to read data from us. This event should be sent once +our own address and the read bit was detected. After returning, the bus driver +should transmit the first byte. + +* I2C_SLAVE_WRITE_RECEIVED (mandatory) + + 'val': bus driver delivers received byte + + 'ret': 0 if the byte should be acked, some errno if the byte should be nacked + +Another I2C master has sent a byte to us which needs to be set in 'val'. If 'ret' +is zero, the bus driver should ack this byte. If 'ret' is an errno, then the byte +should be nacked. + +* I2C_SLAVE_READ_PROCESSED (mandatory) + + 'val': backend returns next byte to be sent + + 'ret': always 0 + +The bus driver requests the next byte to be sent to another I2C master in +'val'. Important: This does not mean that the previous byte has been acked, it +only means that the previous byte is shifted out to the bus! To ensure seamless +transmission, most hardware requests the next byte when the previous one is +still shifted out. If the master sends NACK and stops reading after the byte +currently shifted out, this byte requested here is never used. It very likely +needs to be sent again on the next I2C_SLAVE_READ_REQUEST, depending a bit on +your backend, though. + +* I2C_SLAVE_STOP (mandatory) + + 'val': unused + + 'ret': always 0 + +A stop condition was received. This can happen anytime and the backend should +reset its state machine for I2C transfers to be able to receive new requests. + + +Software backends +----------------- + +If you want to write a software backend: + +* use a standard i2c_driver and its matching mechanisms +* write the slave_callback which handles the above slave events + (best using a state machine) +* register this callback via i2c_slave_register() + +Check the i2c-slave-eeprom driver as an example. + + +Bus driver support +------------------ + +If you want to add slave support to the bus driver: + +* implement calls to register/unregister the slave and add those to the + struct i2c_algorithm. When registering, you probably need to set the I2C + slave address and enable slave specific interrupts. If you use runtime pm, you + should use pm_runtime_get_sync() because your device usually needs to be + powered on always to be able to detect its slave address. When unregistering, + do the inverse of the above. + +* Catch the slave interrupts and send appropriate i2c_slave_events to the backend. + +Note that most hardware supports being master _and_ slave on the same bus. So, +if you extend a bus driver, please make sure that the driver supports that as +well. In almost all cases, slave support does not need to disable the master +functionality. + +Check the i2c-rcar driver as an example. + + +About ACK/NACK +-------------- + +It is good behaviour to always ACK the address phase, so the master knows if a +device is basically present or if it mysteriously disappeared. Using NACK to +state being busy is troublesome. SMBus demands to always ACK the address phase, +while the I2C specification is more loose on that. Most I2C controllers also +automatically ACK when detecting their slave addresses, so there is no option +to NACK them. For those reasons, this API does not support NACK in the address +phase. + +Currently, there is no slave event to report if the master did ACK or NACK a +byte when it reads from us. We could make this an optional event if the need +arises. However, cases should be extremely rare because the master is expected +to send STOP after that and we have an event for that. Also, keep in mind not +all I2C controllers have the possibility to report that event. + + +About buffers +------------- + +During development of this API, the question of using buffers instead of just +bytes came up. Such an extension might be possible, usefulness is unclear at +this time of writing. Some points to keep in mind when using buffers: + +* Buffers should be opt-in and backend drivers will always have to support + byte-based transactions as the ultimate fallback anyhow because this is how + the majority of HW works. + +* For backends simulating hardware registers, buffers are largely not helpful + because after each byte written an action should be immediately triggered. + For reads, the data kept in the buffer might get stale if the backend just + updated a register because of internal processing. + +* A master can send STOP at any time. For partially transferred buffers, this + means additional code to handle this exception. Such code tends to be + error-prone. -- cgit v1.3.1