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<title>kernel.git/arch/hexagon/include/asm/Kbuild, branch linux-4.18.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2018-04-19T11:28:51Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>time: Add an asm-generic/compat.h file</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T11:28:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
</author>
<published>2018-03-26T14:59:15Z</published>
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We have a couple of files that try to include asm/compat.h on
architectures where this is available. Those should generally use the
higher-level linux/compat.h file, but that in turn fails to include
asm/compat.h when CONFIG_COMPAT is disabled, unless we can provide
that header on all architectures.

This adds the asm/compat.h for all remaining architectures to
simplify the dependencies.

Architectures that are getting removed in linux-4.17 are not changed
here, to avoid needless conflicts with the removal patches. Those
architectures are broken by this patch, but we have already shown
that they have no users.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-01-03T17:02:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T23:50:06Z</published>
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Now that every architecture is using the generic clkdev.h file
and we no longer include asm/clkdev.h anywhere in the tree, we
can remove it.

Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>hexagon: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild</title>
<updated>2017-07-09T18:43:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
</author>
<published>2017-07-09T18:32:43Z</published>
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Since commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), all (and only) headers under uapi directories are
exported, but asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions.

To complete de-coupling the uapi from kernel headers, move generic-y
of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild.

With this change, "make headers_install" will just need to parse
uapi/asm/Kbuild to build up exported headers.

Also, move "generic-y += kprobes.h" up in order to keep the entries
sorted.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Remove non-uapi &lt;asm/siginfo.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-06-04T13:11:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T19:01:02Z</published>
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By moving the kernel side __SI_* defintions right next to the userspace
ones we can kill the non-uapi versions of &lt;asm/siginfo.h&gt; include
include/asm-generic/siginfo.h and untangle the unholy mess of includes.

[ tglx: Removed uapi/asm/siginfo.h from m32r, microblaze, mn10300 and score ]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170603190102.28866-6-hch@lst.de

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>uapi: export all headers under uapi directories</title>
<updated>2017-05-10T15:21:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
</author>
<published>2017-03-27T12:20:15Z</published>
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Regularly, when a new header is created in include/uapi/, the developer
forgets to add it in the corresponding Kbuild file. This error is usually
detected after the release is out.

In fact, all headers under uapi directories should be exported, thus it's
useless to have an exhaustive list.

After this patch, the following files, which were not exported, are now
exported (with make headers_install_all):
asm-arc/kvm_para.h
asm-arc/ucontext.h
asm-blackfin/shmparam.h
asm-blackfin/ucontext.h
asm-c6x/shmparam.h
asm-c6x/ucontext.h
asm-cris/kvm_para.h
asm-h8300/shmparam.h
asm-h8300/ucontext.h
asm-hexagon/shmparam.h
asm-m32r/kvm_para.h
asm-m68k/kvm_para.h
asm-m68k/shmparam.h
asm-metag/kvm_para.h
asm-metag/shmparam.h
asm-metag/ucontext.h
asm-mips/hwcap.h
asm-mips/reg.h
asm-mips/ucontext.h
asm-nios2/kvm_para.h
asm-nios2/ucontext.h
asm-openrisc/shmparam.h
asm-parisc/kvm_para.h
asm-powerpc/perf_regs.h
asm-sh/kvm_para.h
asm-sh/ucontext.h
asm-tile/shmparam.h
asm-unicore32/shmparam.h
asm-unicore32/ucontext.h
asm-x86/hwcap2.h
asm-xtensa/kvm_para.h
drm/armada_drm.h
drm/etnaviv_drm.h
drm/vgem_drm.h
linux/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.h
linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h
linux/bcache.h
linux/btrfs_tree.h
linux/can/vxcan.h
linux/cifs/cifs_mount.h
linux/coresight-stm.h
linux/cryptouser.h
linux/fsmap.h
linux/genwqe/genwqe_card.h
linux/hash_info.h
linux/kcm.h
linux/kcov.h
linux/kfd_ioctl.h
linux/lightnvm.h
linux/module.h
linux/nbd-netlink.h
linux/nilfs2_api.h
linux/nilfs2_ondisk.h
linux/nsfs.h
linux/pr.h
linux/qrtr.h
linux/rpmsg.h
linux/sched/types.h
linux/sed-opal.h
linux/smc.h
linux/smc_diag.h
linux/stm.h
linux/switchtec_ioctl.h
linux/vfio_ccw.h
linux/wil6210_uapi.h
rdma/bnxt_re-abi.h

Note that I have removed from this list the files which are generated in every
exported directories (like .install or .install.cmd).

Thanks to Julien Floret &lt;julien.floret@6wind.com&gt; for the tip to get all
subdirs with a pure makefile command.

For the record, note that exported files for asm directories are a mix of
files listed by:
 - include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm;
 - arch/&lt;arch&gt;/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild;
 - arch/&lt;arch&gt;/include/asm/Kbuild.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>add asm-generic/extable.h</title>
<updated>2017-03-28T00:27:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
</author>
<published>2016-12-25T06:22:09Z</published>
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... and make the users of generic uaccess.h use that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes: move kprobe declarations to asm-generic/kprobes.h</title>
<updated>2017-02-28T02:43:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
</author>
<published>2017-02-27T22:26:56Z</published>
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Often all is needed is these small helpers, instead of compiler.h or a
full kprobes.h.  This is important for asm helpers, in fact even some
asm/kprobes.h make use of these helpers...  instead just keep a generic
asm file with helpers useful for asm code with the least amount of
clutter as possible.

Likewise we need now to also address what to do about this file for both
when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES, and when they do not.  Then
for when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES but have disabled
CONFIG_KPROBES.

Right now most asm/kprobes.h do not have guards against CONFIG_KPROBES,
this means most architecture code cannot include asm/kprobes.h safely.
Correct this and add guards for architectures missing them.
Additionally provide architectures that not have kprobes support with
the default asm-generic solution.  This lets us force asm/kprobes.h on
the header include/linux/kprobes.h always, but most importantly we can
now safely include just asm/kprobes.h on architecture code without
bringing the full kitchen sink of header files.

Two architectures already provided a guard against CONFIG_KPROBES on its
kprobes.h: sh, arch.  The rest of the architectures needed gaurds added.
We avoid including any not-needed headers on asm/kprobes.h unless
kprobes have been enabled.

In a subsequent atomic change we can try now to remove compiler.h from
include/linux/kprobes.h.

During this sweep I've also identified a few architectures defining a
common macro needed for both kprobes and ftrace, that of the definition
of the breakput instruction up.  Some refer to this as
BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION.  This must be kept outside of the #ifdef
CONFIG_KPROBES guard.

[mcgrof@kernel.org: fix arm64 build]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAB=NE6X1WMByuARS4mZ1g9+W=LuVBnMDnh_5zyN0CLADaVh=Jw@mail.gmail.com
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup for kprobes declarations moving]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214165933.13ebd4f4@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203233139.32682-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Remove generic asm headers</title>
<updated>2017-02-01T08:14:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T03:09:51Z</published>
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cputime_t is now only used by two architectures:

	* powerpc (when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y)
	* s390

And since the core doesn't use it anymore, we don't need any arch support
from the others. So we can remove their stub implementations.

A final cleanup would be to provide an efficient pure arch
implementation of cputime_to_nsec() for s390 and powerpc and finally
remove include/linux/cputime.h .

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-36-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T15:31:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2015-10-04T15:31:13Z</published>
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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