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<title>MIPS: Alchemy: only build mmc support helpers if au1xmmc is enabled</title>
<updated>2023-10-06T11:16:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-05T07:06:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ef8f8f04a0b25e8f294b24350e8463a8d6a9ba0b ]

While commit d4a5c59a955b ("mmc: au1xmmc: force non-modular build and
remove symbol_get usage") to be built in, it can still build a kernel
without MMC support and thuse no mmc_detect_change symbol at all.

Add ifdefs to build the mmc support code in the alchemy arch code
conditional on mmc support.

Fixes: d4a5c59a955b ("mmc: au1xmmc: force non-modular build and remove symbol_get usage")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ef8f8f04a0b25e8f294b24350e8463a8d6a9ba0b ]

While commit d4a5c59a955b ("mmc: au1xmmc: force non-modular build and
remove symbol_get usage") to be built in, it can still build a kernel
without MMC support and thuse no mmc_detect_change symbol at all.

Add ifdefs to build the mmc support code in the alchemy arch code
conditional on mmc support.

Fixes: d4a5c59a955b ("mmc: au1xmmc: force non-modular build and remove symbol_get usage")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>usb: dwc3: dwc3-octeon: Verify clock divider</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T09:14:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ladislav Michl</name>
<email>ladis@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-08T09:37:50+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fb57f829beefd4b3746f1b23d51e80ed5d4bb87b ]

Although valid USB clock divider will be calculated for all valid
Octeon core frequencies, make code formally correct limiting
divider not to be greater that 7 so it fits into H_CLKDIV_SEL
field.

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl &lt;ladis@linux-mips.org&gt;
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-next-master/build/next-20230808/testrun/18882876/suite/build/test/gcc-8-cavium_octeon_defconfig/log
Acked-by: Thinh Nguyen &lt;Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZNIM7tlBNdHFzXZG@lenoch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fb57f829beefd4b3746f1b23d51e80ed5d4bb87b ]

Although valid USB clock divider will be calculated for all valid
Octeon core frequencies, make code formally correct limiting
divider not to be greater that 7 so it fits into H_CLKDIV_SEL
field.

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl &lt;ladis@linux-mips.org&gt;
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-next-master/build/next-20230808/testrun/18882876/suite/build/test/gcc-8-cavium_octeon_defconfig/log
Acked-by: Thinh Nguyen &lt;Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZNIM7tlBNdHFzXZG@lenoch
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS `modules_install' regression</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-18T14:37:18+00:00</published>
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commit a79a404e6c2241ebc528b9ebf4c0832457b498c3 upstream.

Remove a build-time check for the presence of the GCC `-msym32' option.
This option has been there since GCC 4.1.0, which is below the minimum
required as at commit 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler
only when compiler is needed"), when an error message:

arch/mips/Makefile:306: *** CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS unsupported without -msym32.  Stop.

started to trigger for the `modules_install' target with configurations
such as `decstation_64_defconfig' that set CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS,
because said commit has made `cc-option-yn' an undefined function for
non-build targets.

Reported-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw &lt;jbglaw@lug-owl.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Fixes: 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler only when compiler is needed")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;philmd@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a79a404e6c2241ebc528b9ebf4c0832457b498c3 upstream.

Remove a build-time check for the presence of the GCC `-msym32' option.
This option has been there since GCC 4.1.0, which is below the minimum
required as at commit 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler
only when compiler is needed"), when an error message:

arch/mips/Makefile:306: *** CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS unsupported without -msym32.  Stop.

started to trigger for the `modules_install' target with configurations
such as `decstation_64_defconfig' that set CONFIG_CPU_DADDI_WORKAROUNDS,
because said commit has made `cc-option-yn' an undefined function for
non-build targets.

Reported-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw &lt;jbglaw@lug-owl.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Fixes: 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler only when compiler is needed")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;philmd@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Only fiddle with CHECKFLAGS if `need-compiler'</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-18T14:37:23+00:00</published>
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commit 4fe4a6374c4db9ae2b849b61e84b58685dca565a upstream.

We have originally guarded fiddling with CHECKFLAGS in our arch Makefile
by checking for the CONFIG_MIPS variable, not set for targets such as
`distclean', etc. that neither include `.config' nor use the compiler.

Starting from commit 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler
only when compiler is needed") we have had a generic `need-compiler'
variable explicitly telling us if the compiler will be used and thus its
capabilities need to be checked and expressed in the form of compilation
flags.  If this variable is not set, then `make' functions such as
`cc-option' are undefined, causing all kinds of weirdness to happen if
we expect specific results to be returned, most recently:

cc1: error: '-mloongson-mmi' must be used with '-mhard-float'

messages with configurations such as `fuloong2e_defconfig' and the
`modules_install' target, which does include `.config' and yet does not
use the compiler.

Replace the check for CONFIG_MIPS with one for `need-compiler' instead,
so as to prevent the compiler from being ever called for CHECKFLAGS when
not needed.

Reported-by: Guillaume Tucker &lt;guillaume.tucker@collabora.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/85031c0c-d981-031e-8a50-bc4fad2ddcd8@collabora.com/
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Fixes: 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler only when compiler is needed")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" &lt;bot@kernelci.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4fe4a6374c4db9ae2b849b61e84b58685dca565a upstream.

We have originally guarded fiddling with CHECKFLAGS in our arch Makefile
by checking for the CONFIG_MIPS variable, not set for targets such as
`distclean', etc. that neither include `.config' nor use the compiler.

Starting from commit 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler
only when compiler is needed") we have had a generic `need-compiler'
variable explicitly telling us if the compiler will be used and thus its
capabilities need to be checked and expressed in the form of compilation
flags.  If this variable is not set, then `make' functions such as
`cc-option' are undefined, causing all kinds of weirdness to happen if
we expect specific results to be returned, most recently:

cc1: error: '-mloongson-mmi' must be used with '-mhard-float'

messages with configurations such as `fuloong2e_defconfig' and the
`modules_install' target, which does include `.config' and yet does not
use the compiler.

Replace the check for CONFIG_MIPS with one for `need-compiler' instead,
so as to prevent the compiler from being ever called for CHECKFLAGS when
not needed.

Reported-by: Guillaume Tucker &lt;guillaume.tucker@collabora.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/85031c0c-d981-031e-8a50-bc4fad2ddcd8@collabora.com/
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Fixes: 805b2e1d427a ("kbuild: include Makefile.compiler only when compiler is needed")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" &lt;bot@kernelci.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nmi_backtrace: allow excluding an arbitrary CPU</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-04T14:00:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8d539b84f1e3478436f978ceaf55a0b6cab497b5 ]

The APIs that allow backtracing across CPUs have always had a way to
exclude the current CPU.  This convenience means callers didn't need to
find a place to allocate a CPU mask just to handle the common case.

Let's extend the API to take a CPU ID to exclude instead of just a
boolean.  This isn't any more complex for the API to handle and allows the
hardlockup detector to exclude a different CPU (the one it already did a
trace for) without needing to find space for a CPU mask.

Arguably, this new API also encourages safer behavior.  Specifically if
the caller wants to avoid tracing the current CPU (maybe because they
already traced the current CPU) this makes it more obvious to the caller
that they need to make sure that the current CPU ID can't change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix trigger_allbutcpu_cpu_backtrace() stub]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804065935.v4.1.Ia35521b91fc781368945161d7b28538f9996c182@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 1f38c86bb29f ("watchdog/hardlockup: avoid large stack frames in watchdog_hardlockup_check()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8d539b84f1e3478436f978ceaf55a0b6cab497b5 ]

The APIs that allow backtracing across CPUs have always had a way to
exclude the current CPU.  This convenience means callers didn't need to
find a place to allocate a CPU mask just to handle the common case.

Let's extend the API to take a CPU ID to exclude instead of just a
boolean.  This isn't any more complex for the API to handle and allows the
hardlockup detector to exclude a different CPU (the one it already did a
trace for) without needing to find space for a CPU mask.

Arguably, this new API also encourages safer behavior.  Specifically if
the caller wants to avoid tracing the current CPU (maybe because they
already traced the current CPU) this makes it more obvious to the caller
that they need to make sure that the current CPU ID can't change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix trigger_allbutcpu_cpu_backtrace() stub]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230804065935.v4.1.Ia35521b91fc781368945161d7b28538f9996c182@changeid
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Pingfan Liu &lt;kernelfans@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 1f38c86bb29f ("watchdog/hardlockup: avoid large stack frames in watchdog_hardlockup_check()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/arch: Avoid variable shadowing in local_try_cmpxchg()</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:52:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-08T09:00:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d6b45484c130f4095313ae3edeb4aae662c12fb1 ]

Several architectures define arch_try_local_cmpxchg macro using
internal temporary variables named ___old, __old or _old. Remove
temporary varible in local_try_cmpxchg to avoid variable shadowing.

No functional change intended.

Fixes: d994f2c8e241 ("locking/arch: Wire up local_try_cmpxchg()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAFGhKbyxtuk=LoW-E3yLXgcmR93m+Dfo5-u9oQA_YC5Fcy_t9g@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Charlemagne Lasse &lt;charlemagnelasse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230708090048.63046-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d6b45484c130f4095313ae3edeb4aae662c12fb1 ]

Several architectures define arch_try_local_cmpxchg macro using
internal temporary variables named ___old, __old or _old. Remove
temporary varible in local_try_cmpxchg to avoid variable shadowing.

No functional change intended.

Fixes: d994f2c8e241 ("locking/arch: Wire up local_try_cmpxchg()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAFGhKbyxtuk=LoW-E3yLXgcmR93m+Dfo5-u9oQA_YC5Fcy_t9g@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Charlemagne Lasse &lt;charlemagnelasse@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230708090048.63046-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmc: au1xmmc: force non-modular build and remove symbol_get usage</title>
<updated>2023-09-06T20:22:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T17:35:41+00:00</published>
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commit d4a5c59a955bba96b273ec1a5885bada24c56979 upstream.

au1xmmc is split somewhat awkwardly into the main mmc subsystem driver,
and callbacks in platform_data that sit under arch/mips/ and are
always built in.  The latter than call mmc_detect_change through
symbol_get.  Remove the use of symbol_get by requiring the driver
to be built in.  In the future the interrupt handlers for card
insert/eject detection should probably be moved into the main driver,
and which point it can be built modular again.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
[mcgrof: squashed in depends on MMC=y suggested by Arnd]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d4a5c59a955bba96b273ec1a5885bada24c56979 upstream.

au1xmmc is split somewhat awkwardly into the main mmc subsystem driver,
and callbacks in platform_data that sit under arch/mips/ and are
always built in.  The latter than call mmc_detect_change through
symbol_get.  Remove the use of symbol_get by requiring the driver
to be built in.  In the future the interrupt handlers for card
insert/eject detection should probably be moved into the main driver,
and which point it can be built modular again.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Manuel Lauss &lt;manuel.lauss@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
[mcgrof: squashed in depends on MMC=y suggested by Arnd]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: remove spin_lock_prefetch</title>
<updated>2023-08-12T16:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-12T16:15:54+00:00</published>
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The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as
commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -&gt; v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1]
with a changelog which does not mention it.

Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling.

While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to
at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code
performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire,
any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the
routine calls spin_lock().  It adds spurious traffic, for short.

On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded
purposes, making it questionable from the get go.

As such, remove it.

I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I
can do it if that is deemed appropriate.

Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as
requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as
commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -&gt; v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1]
with a changelog which does not mention it.

Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling.

While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to
at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code
performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire,
any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the
routine calls spin_lock().  It adds spurious traffic, for short.

On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded
purposes, making it questionable from the get go.

As such, remove it.

I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I
can do it if that is deemed appropriate.

Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as
requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>arch/*/configs/*defconfig: Replace AUTOFS4_FS by AUTOFS_FS</title>
<updated>2023-07-29T21:08:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Joachim</name>
<email>svenjoac@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-27T20:00:41+00:00</published>
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Commit a2225d931f75 ("autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs")
promised the removal of the fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS
within a couple of releases, but five years later this still has not
happened yet, and AUTOFS4_FS is still enabled in 63 defconfigs.

Get rid of it mechanically:

   git grep -l CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS -- '*defconfig' |
       xargs sed -i 's/AUTOFS4_FS/AUTOFS_FS/'

Also just remove the AUTOFS4_FS config option stub.  Anybody who hasn't
regenerated their config file in the last five years will need to just
get the new name right when they do.

Signed-off-by: Sven Joachim &lt;svenjoac@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit a2225d931f75 ("autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs")
promised the removal of the fs/autofs/Kconfig fragment for AUTOFS4_FS
within a couple of releases, but five years later this still has not
happened yet, and AUTOFS4_FS is still enabled in 63 defconfigs.

Get rid of it mechanically:

   git grep -l CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS -- '*defconfig' |
       xargs sed -i 's/AUTOFS4_FS/AUTOFS_FS/'

Also just remove the AUTOFS4_FS config option stub.  Anybody who hasn't
regenerated their config file in the last five years will need to just
get the new name right when they do.

Signed-off-by: Sven Joachim &lt;svenjoac@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'mips_6.5_1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux</title>
<updated>2023-07-09T17:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-09T17:02:49+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS fixes from Thomas Bogendoerfer:

 - fixes for KVM

 - fix for loongson build and cpu probing

 - DT fixes

* tag 'mips_6.5_1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
  MIPS: kvm: Fix build error with KVM_MIPS_DEBUG_COP0_COUNTERS enabled
  MIPS: dts: add missing space before {
  MIPS: Loongson: Fix build error when make modules_install
  MIPS: KVM: Fix NULL pointer dereference
  MIPS: Loongson: Fix cpu_probe_loongson() again
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Pull MIPS fixes from Thomas Bogendoerfer:

 - fixes for KVM

 - fix for loongson build and cpu probing

 - DT fixes

* tag 'mips_6.5_1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux:
  MIPS: kvm: Fix build error with KVM_MIPS_DEBUG_COP0_COUNTERS enabled
  MIPS: dts: add missing space before {
  MIPS: Loongson: Fix build error when make modules_install
  MIPS: KVM: Fix NULL pointer dereference
  MIPS: Loongson: Fix cpu_probe_loongson() again
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