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<title>arm64/fpsimd: Avoid warning when sve_to_fpsimd() is unused</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:33Z</updated>
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[ Upstream commit f699c66691fb7e08a5a631c5baf5f2a19b7a6468 ]

Historically fpsimd_to_sve() and sve_to_fpsimd() were (conditionally)
called by functions which were defined regardless of CONFIG_ARM64_SVE.
Hence it was necessary that both fpsimd_to_sve() and sve_to_fpsimd()
were always defined and not guarded by ifdeffery.

As a result of the removal of fpsimd_signal_preserve_current_state() in
commit:

  929fa99b1215966f ("arm64/fpsimd: signal: Always save+flush state early")

... sve_to_fpsimd() has no callers when CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=n, resulting in
a build-time warnign that it is unused:

| arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c:676:13: warning: unused function 'sve_to_fpsimd' [-Wunused-function]
|   676 | static void sve_to_fpsimd(struct task_struct *task)
|       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
| 1 warning generated.

In contrast, fpsimd_to_sve() still has callers which are defined when
CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=n, and it would be awkward to hide this behind
ifdeffery and/or to use stub functions.

For now, suppress the warning by marking both fpsimd_to_sve() and
sve_to_fpsimd() as 'static inline', as we usually do for stub functions.
The compiler will no longer warn if either function is unused.

Aside from suppressing the warning, there should be no functional change
as a result of this patch.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250429194600.GA26883@willie-the-truck/
Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 929fa99b1215 ("arm64/fpsimd: signal: Always save+flush state early")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430173240.4023627-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/fpsimd: Fix merging of FPSIMD state during signal return</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2025-04-09T16:40:06Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit c94f2f326146a34066a0070ed90b8bc656b1842f ]

For backwards compatibility reasons, when a signal return occurs which
restores SVE state, the effective lower 128 bits of each of the SVE
vector registers are restored from the corresponding FPSIMD vector
register in the FPSIMD signal frame, overriding the values in the SVE
signal frame. This is intended to be the case regardless of streaming
mode.

To make this happen, restore_sve_fpsimd_context() uses
fpsimd_update_current_state() to merge the lower 128 bits from the
FPSIMD signal frame into the SVE register state. Unfortunately,
fpsimd_update_current_state() performs this merging dependent upon
TIF_SVE, which is not always correct for streaming SVE register state:

* When restoring non-streaming SVE register state there is no observable
  problem, as the signal return code configures TIF_SVE and the saved
  fp_type to match before calling fpsimd_update_current_state(), which
  observes either:

  - TIF_SVE set    AND  fp_type == FP_STATE_SVE
  - TIF_SVE clear  AND  fp_type == FP_STATE_FPSIMD

* On systems which have SME but not SVE, TIF_SVE cannot be set. Thus the
  merging will never happen for the streaming SVE register state.

* On systems which have SVE and SME, TIF_SVE can be set and cleared
  independently of PSTATE.SM. Thus the merging may or may not happen for
  streaming SVE register state.

  As TIF_SVE can be cleared non-deterministically during syscalls
  (including at the start of sigreturn()), the merging may occur
  non-deterministically from the perspective of userspace.

This logic has been broken since its introduction in commit:

  85ed24dad2904f7c ("arm64/sme: Implement streaming SVE signal handling")

... at which point both fpsimd_signal_preserve_current_state() and
fpsimd_update_current_state() only checked TIF SVE. When PSTATE.SM==1
and TIF_SVE was clear, signal delivery would place stale FPSIMD state
into the FPSIMD signal frame, and signal return would not merge this
into the restored register state.

Subsequently, signal delivery was fixed as part of commit:

  61da7c8e2a602f66 ("arm64/signal: Don't assume that TIF_SVE means we saved SVE state")

... but signal restore was not given a corresponding fix, and when
TIF_SVE was clear, signal restore would still fail to merge the FPSIMD
state into the restored SVE register state. The 'Fixes' tag did not
indicate that this had been broken since its introduction.

Fix this by merging the FPSIMD state dependent upon the saved fp_type,
matching what we (currently) do during signal delivery.

As described above, when backporting this commit, it will also be
necessary to backport commit:

  61da7c8e2a602f66 ("arm64/signal: Don't assume that TIF_SVE means we saved SVE state")

... and prior to commit:

  baa8515281b30861 ("arm64/fpsimd: Track the saved FPSIMD state type separately to TIF_SVE")

... it will be necessary for fpsimd_signal_preserve_current_state() and
fpsimd_update_current_state() to consider both TIF_SVE and
thread_sm_enabled(&amp;current-&gt;thread), in place of the saved fp_type.

Fixes: 85ed24dad290 ("arm64/sme: Implement streaming SVE signal handling")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409164010.3480271-10-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/fpsimd: Reset FPMR upon exec()</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
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<published>2025-04-09T16:40:05Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit a90878f297d3dba906a6261deccb1bd4a791ba52 ]

An exec() is expected to reset all FPSIMD/SVE/SME state, and barring
special handling of the vector lengths, the state is expected to reset
to zero. This reset is handled in fpsimd_flush_thread(), which the core
exec() code calls via flush_thread().

When support was added for FPMR, no logic was added to
fpsimd_flush_thread() to reset the FPMR value, and thus it is
erroneously inherited across an exec().

Add the missing reset of FPMR.

Fixes: 203f2b95a882 ("arm64/fpsimd: Support FEAT_FPMR")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409164010.3480271-9-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>arm64/fpsimd: Avoid clobbering kernel FPSIMD state with SMSTOP</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2025-04-09T16:40:04Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 01098d893fa8a6edb2b56e178b798e3e6b674f02 ]

On system with SME, a thread's kernel FPSIMD state may be erroneously
clobbered during a context switch immediately after that state is
restored. Systems without SME are unaffected.

If the CPU happens to be in streaming SVE mode before a context switch
to a thread with kernel FPSIMD state, fpsimd_thread_switch() will
restore the kernel FPSIMD state using fpsimd_load_kernel_state() while
the CPU is still in streaming SVE mode. When fpsimd_thread_switch()
subsequently calls fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(), this will execute an
SMSTOP, causing an exit from streaming SVE mode. The exit from
streaming SVE mode will cause the hardware to reset a number of
FPSIMD/SVE/SME registers, clobbering the FPSIMD state.

Fix this by calling fpsimd_flush_cpu_state() before restoring the kernel
FPSIMD state.

Fixes: e92bee9f861b ("arm64/fpsimd: Avoid erroneous elide of user state reload")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409164010.3480271-8-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>arm64/fpsimd: Don't corrupt FPMR when streaming mode changes</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
</author>
<published>2025-04-09T16:40:03Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit e5fa85fce08b21ed41643cb7968bf66bbd0532e3 ]

When the effective value of PSTATE.SM is changed from 0 to 1 or from 1
to 0 by any method, an entry or exit to/from streaming SVE mode is
performed, and hardware automatically resets a number of registers. As
of ARM DDI 0487 L.a, this means:

* All implemented bits of the SVE vector registers are set to zero.

* All implemented bits of the SVE predicate registers are set to zero.

* All implemented bits of FFR are set to zero, if FFR is implemented in
  the new mode.

* FPSR is set to 0x0000_0000_0800_009f.

* FPMR is set to 0, if FPMR is implemented.

Currently task_fpsimd_load() restores FPMR before restoring SVCR (which
is an accessor for PSTATE.{SM,ZA}), and so the restored value of FPMR
may be clobbered if the restored value of PSTATE.SM happens to differ
from the initial value of PSTATE.SM.

Fix this by moving the restore of FPMR later.

Note: this was originally posted as [1].

Fixes: 203f2b95a882 ("arm64/fpsimd: Support FEAT_FPMR")
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20241204-arm64-sme-reenable-v2-2-bae87728251d@kernel.org/
[ Rutland: rewrite commit message ]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409164010.3480271-7-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/fpsimd: Discard stale CPU state when handling SME traps</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
</author>
<published>2025-04-09T16:40:02Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit d3eaab3c70905c5467e5c4ea403053d67505adeb ]

The logic for handling SME traps manipulates saved FPSIMD/SVE/SME state
incorrectly, and a race with preemption can result in a task having
TIF_SME set and TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE clear even though the live CPU state
is stale (e.g. with SME traps enabled). This can result in warnings from
do_sme_acc() where SME traps are not expected while TIF_SME is set:

|        /* With TIF_SME userspace shouldn't generate any traps */
|        if (test_and_set_thread_flag(TIF_SME))
|                WARN_ON(1);

This is very similar to the SVE issue we fixed in commit:

  751ecf6afd6568ad ("arm64/sve: Discard stale CPU state when handling SVE traps")

The race can occur when the SME trap handler is preempted before and
after manipulating the saved FPSIMD/SVE/SME state, starting and ending on
the same CPU, e.g.

| void do_sme_acc(unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
| {
|         // Trap on CPU 0 with TIF_SME clear, SME traps enabled
|         // task-&gt;fpsimd_cpu is 0.
|         // per_cpu_ptr(&amp;fpsimd_last_state, 0) is task.
|
|         ...
|
|         // Preempted; migrated from CPU 0 to CPU 1.
|         // TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE is set.
|
|         get_cpu_fpsimd_context();
|
|         /* With TIF_SME userspace shouldn't generate any traps */
|         if (test_and_set_thread_flag(TIF_SME))
|                 WARN_ON(1);
|
|         if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE)) {
|                 unsigned long vq_minus_one =
|                         sve_vq_from_vl(task_get_sme_vl(current)) - 1;
|                 sme_set_vq(vq_minus_one);
|
|                 fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu();
|         }
|
|         put_cpu_fpsimd_context();
|
|         // Preempted; migrated from CPU 1 to CPU 0.
|         // task-&gt;fpsimd_cpu is still 0
|         // If per_cpu_ptr(&amp;fpsimd_last_state, 0) is still task then:
|         // - Stale HW state is reused (with SME traps enabled)
|         // - TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE is cleared
|         // - A return to userspace skips HW state restore
| }

Fix the case where the state is not live and TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE is set
by calling fpsimd_flush_task_state() to detach from the saved CPU
state. This ensures that a subsequent context switch will not reuse the
stale CPU state, and will instead set TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE, forcing the
new state to be reloaded from memory prior to a return to userspace.

Note: this was originallly posted as [1].

Fixes: 8bd7f91c03d8 ("arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20241204-arm64-sme-reenable-v2-1-bae87728251d@kernel.org/
[ Rutland: rewrite commit message ]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409164010.3480271-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/fpsimd: Avoid RES0 bits in the SME trap handler</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:39:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2025-04-09T16:39:58Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 95507570fb2f75544af69760cd5d8f48fc5c7f20 ]

The SME trap handler consumes RES0 bits from the ESR when determining
the reason for the trap, and depends upon those bits reading as zero.
This may break in future when those RES0 bits are allocated a meaning
and stop reading as zero.

For SME traps taken with ESR_ELx.EC == 0b011101, the specific reason for
the trap is indicated by ESR_ELx.ISS.SMTC ("SME Trap Code"). This field
occupies bits [2:0] of ESR_ELx.ISS, and as of ARM DDI 0487 L.a, bits
[24:3] of ESR_ELx.ISS are RES0. ESR_ELx.ISS itself occupies bits [24:0]
of ESR_ELx.

Extract the SMTC field specifically, matching the way we handle ESR_ELx
fields elsewhere, and ensuring that the handler is future-proof.

Fixes: 8bd7f91c03d8 ("arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409164010.3480271-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-02-14T23:32:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
</author>
<published>2025-02-14T23:32:47Z</published>
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KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.14, take #2

- Large set of fixes for vector handling, specially in the interactions
  between host and guest state. This fixes a number of bugs affecting
  actual deployments, and greatly simplifies the FP/SIMD/SVE handling.
  Thanks to Mark Rutland for dealing with this thankless task.

- Fix an ugly race between vcpu and vgic creation/init, resulting in
  unexpected behaviours.

- Fix use of kernel VAs at EL2 when emulating timers with nVHE.

- Small set of pKVM improvements and cleanups.
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Unconditionally save+flush host FPSIMD/SVE/SME state</title>
<updated>2025-02-13T17:54:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2025-02-10T19:52:19Z</published>
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There are several problems with the way hyp code lazily saves the host's
FPSIMD/SVE state, including:

* Host SVE being discarded unexpectedly due to inconsistent
  configuration of TIF_SVE and CPACR_ELx.ZEN. This has been seen to
  result in QEMU crashes where SVE is used by memmove(), as reported by
  Eric Auger:

  https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-68997

* Host SVE state is discarded *after* modification by ptrace, which was an
  unintentional ptrace ABI change introduced with lazy discarding of SVE state.

* The host FPMR value can be discarded when running a non-protected VM,
  where FPMR support is not exposed to a VM, and that VM uses
  FPSIMD/SVE. In these cases the hyp code does not save the host's FPMR
  before unbinding the host's FPSIMD/SVE/SME state, leaving a stale
  value in memory.

Avoid these by eagerly saving and "flushing" the host's FPSIMD/SVE/SME
state when loading a vCPU such that KVM does not need to save any of the
host's FPSIMD/SVE/SME state. For clarity, fpsimd_kvm_prepare() is
removed and the necessary call to fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state() is
placed in kvm_arch_vcpu_load_fp(). As 'fpsimd_state' and 'fpmr_ptr'
should not be used, they are set to NULL; all uses of these will be
removed in subsequent patches.

Historical problems go back at least as far as v5.17, e.g. erroneous
assumptions about TIF_SVE being clear in commit:

  8383741ab2e773a9 ("KVM: arm64: Get rid of host SVE tracking/saving")

... and so this eager save+flush probably needs to be backported to ALL
stable trees.

Fixes: 93ae6b01bafee8fa ("KVM: arm64: Discard any SVE state when entering KVM guests")
Fixes: 8c845e2731041f0f ("arm64/sve: Leave SVE enabled on syscall if we don't context switch")
Fixes: ef3be86021c3bdf3 ("KVM: arm64: Add save/restore support for FPMR")
Reported-by: Eric Auger &lt;eauger@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wilco Dijkstra &lt;wilco.dijkstra@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Linton &lt;jeremy.linton@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210195226.1215254-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T12:48:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
</author>
<published>2025-01-28T12:48:37Z</published>
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Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &amp;uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&amp;uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt; # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt; # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell &lt;bodonnel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit &lt;ashutosh.dixit@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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