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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33+00:00</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 234</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-03T05:44:50+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
  licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
  licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Makefile: Replace -pg with CC_FLAGS_FTRACE</title>
<updated>2019-04-09T09:34:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Torsten Duwe</name>
<email>duwe@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-08T15:10:07+00:00</published>
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In preparation for arm64 supporting ftrace built on other compiler
options, let's have the arm64 Makefiles remove the $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
flags, whatever these may be, rather than assuming '-pg'.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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In preparation for arm64 supporting ftrace built on other compiler
options, let's have the arm64 Makefiles remove the $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
flags, whatever these may be, rather than assuming '-pg'.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: string: use asm EXPORT_SYMBOL()</title>
<updated>2018-12-10T11:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-07T18:08:21+00:00</published>
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For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the string routine
exports to the assembly files the functions are defined in. Routines
which should only be exported for !KASAN builds are exported using the
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN() helper.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the string routine
exports to the assembly files the functions are defined in. Routines
which should only be exported for !KASAN builds are exported using the
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOKASAN() helper.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: uaccess: use asm EXPORT_SYMBOL()</title>
<updated>2018-12-10T11:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-07T18:08:20+00:00</published>
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For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the uaccess exports
to the assembly files the functions are defined in.  As we have to
include &lt;asm/assembler.h&gt;, the existing includes are fixed to follow the
usual ordering conventions.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the uaccess exports
to the assembly files the functions are defined in.  As we have to
include &lt;asm/assembler.h&gt;, the existing includes are fixed to follow the
usual ordering conventions.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: page: use asm EXPORT_SYMBOL()</title>
<updated>2018-12-10T11:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-07T18:08:19+00:00</published>
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For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the copy_page and
clear_page exports to the assembly files the functions are defined in.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the copy_page and
clear_page exports to the assembly files the functions are defined in.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: tishift: use asm EXPORT_SYMBOL()</title>
<updated>2018-12-10T11:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-07T18:08:17+00:00</published>
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For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the tishift exports
to the assembly file the functions are defined in.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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For a while now it's been possible to use EXPORT_SYMBOL() in assembly
files, which allows us to place exports immediately after assembly
functions, as we do for C functions.

As a step towards removing arm64ksyms.c, let's move the tishift exports
to the assembly file the functions are defined in.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: crypto: add NEON accelerated XOR implementation</title>
<updated>2018-12-06T16:47:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jackie Liu</name>
<email>liuyun01@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T01:43:23+00:00</published>
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This is a NEON acceleration method that can improve
performance by approximately 20%. I got the following
data from the centos 7.5 on Huawei's HISI1616 chip:

[ 93.837726] xor: measuring software checksum speed
[ 93.874039]   8regs  : 7123.200 MB/sec
[ 93.914038]   32regs : 7180.300 MB/sec
[ 93.954043]   arm64_neon: 9856.000 MB/sec
[ 93.954047] xor: using function: arm64_neon (9856.000 MB/sec)

I believe this code can bring some optimization for
all arm64 platform. thanks for Ard Biesheuvel's suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu &lt;liuyun01@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This is a NEON acceleration method that can improve
performance by approximately 20%. I got the following
data from the centos 7.5 on Huawei's HISI1616 chip:

[ 93.837726] xor: measuring software checksum speed
[ 93.874039]   8regs  : 7123.200 MB/sec
[ 93.914038]   32regs : 7180.300 MB/sec
[ 93.954043]   arm64_neon: 9856.000 MB/sec
[ 93.954047] xor: using function: arm64_neon (9856.000 MB/sec)

I believe this code can bring some optimization for
all arm64 platform. thanks for Ard Biesheuvel's suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu &lt;liuyun01@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/lib: improve CRC32 performance for deep pipelines</title>
<updated>2018-11-30T13:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-27T17:42:55+00:00</published>
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Improve the performance of the crc32() asm routines by getting rid of
most of the branches and small sized loads on the common path.

Instead, use a branchless code path involving overlapping 16 byte
loads to process the first (length % 32) bytes, and process the
remainder using a loop that processes 32 bytes at a time.

Tested using the following test program:

  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;

  extern void crc32_le(unsigned short, char const*, int);

  int main(void)
  {
    static const char buf[4096];

    srand(20181126);

    for (int i = 0; i &lt; 100 * 1000 * 1000; i++)
      crc32_le(0, buf, rand() % 1024);

    return 0;
  }

On Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57, the performance regresses but only very
slightly. On Cortex-A72 however, the performance improves from

  $ time ./crc32

  real  0m10.149s
  user  0m10.149s
  sys   0m0.000s

to

  $ time ./crc32

  real  0m7.915s
  user  0m7.915s
  sys   0m0.000s

Cc: Rui Sun &lt;sunrui26@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Improve the performance of the crc32() asm routines by getting rid of
most of the branches and small sized loads on the common path.

Instead, use a branchless code path involving overlapping 16 byte
loads to process the first (length % 32) bytes, and process the
remainder using a loop that processes 32 bytes at a time.

Tested using the following test program:

  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;

  extern void crc32_le(unsigned short, char const*, int);

  int main(void)
  {
    static const char buf[4096];

    srand(20181126);

    for (int i = 0; i &lt; 100 * 1000 * 1000; i++)
      crc32_le(0, buf, rand() % 1024);

    return 0;
  }

On Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57, the performance regresses but only very
slightly. On Cortex-A72 however, the performance improves from

  $ time ./crc32

  real  0m10.149s
  user  0m10.149s
  sys   0m0.000s

to

  $ time ./crc32

  real  0m7.915s
  user  0m7.915s
  sys   0m0.000s

Cc: Rui Sun &lt;sunrui26@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: lib: use C string functions with KASAN enabled</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T23:25:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>aryabinin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T22:02:30+00:00</published>
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ARM64 has asm implementation of memchr(), memcmp(), str[r]chr(),
str[n]cmp(), str[n]len().  KASAN don't see memory accesses in asm code,
thus it can potentially miss many bugs.

Ifdef out __HAVE_ARCH_* defines of these functions when KASAN is enabled,
so the generic implementations from lib/string.c will be used.

We can't just remove the asm functions because efistub uses them.  And we
can't have two non-weak functions either, so declare the asm functions as
weak.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180920135631.23833-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Kyeongdon Kim &lt;kyeongdon.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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ARM64 has asm implementation of memchr(), memcmp(), str[r]chr(),
str[n]cmp(), str[n]len().  KASAN don't see memory accesses in asm code,
thus it can potentially miss many bugs.

Ifdef out __HAVE_ARCH_* defines of these functions when KASAN is enabled,
so the generic implementations from lib/string.c will be used.

We can't just remove the asm functions because efistub uses them.  And we
can't have two non-weak functions either, so declare the asm functions as
weak.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180920135631.23833-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Kyeongdon Kim &lt;kyeongdon.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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