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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c, branch linux-rolling-stable</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/smp: Avoid calling rebuild_sched_domains() early</title>
<updated>2026-02-17T14:49:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-16T14:02:33+00:00</published>
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Since a recent cpuset code change [1] the kernel emits warnings like this:

WARNING: kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:966 at rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0xe0/0x120, CPU#0: kworker/0:0/9
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.20.0-20260215.rc0.git3.bb7a3fc2c976.300.fc43.s390x+git #1 PREEMPTLAZY
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 703 (KVM/Linux)
Workqueue: events topology_work_fn
Krnl PSW : 0704c00180000000 000002922e7af5c4 (rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0xe4/0x120)
...
Call Trace:
 [&lt;000002922e7af5c4&gt;] rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0xe4/0x120
 [&lt;000002922e7af634&gt;] rebuild_sched_domains+0x34/0x50
 [&lt;000002922e6ba232&gt;] process_one_work+0x1b2/0x490
 [&lt;000002922e6bc4b8&gt;] worker_thread+0x1f8/0x3b0
 [&lt;000002922e6c6a98&gt;] kthread+0x148/0x170
 [&lt;000002922e645ffc&gt;] __ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x240
 [&lt;000002922f51f492&gt;] ret_from_fork+0xa/0x30

Reason for this is that the s390 specific smp initialization code schedules
a work which rebuilds scheduling domains way before the scheduler is smp
aware. With the mentioned commit the (invalid) rebuild request is not
anymore silently discarded but instead leads to warning.

Address this by avoiding the early rebuild request.

Reported-by: Marc Hartmayer &lt;marc@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Hartmayer &lt;marc@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 6ee43047e8ad ("cpuset: Remove unnecessary checks in rebuild_sched_domains_locked") [1]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Since a recent cpuset code change [1] the kernel emits warnings like this:

WARNING: kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:966 at rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0xe0/0x120, CPU#0: kworker/0:0/9
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.20.0-20260215.rc0.git3.bb7a3fc2c976.300.fc43.s390x+git #1 PREEMPTLAZY
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 703 (KVM/Linux)
Workqueue: events topology_work_fn
Krnl PSW : 0704c00180000000 000002922e7af5c4 (rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0xe4/0x120)
...
Call Trace:
 [&lt;000002922e7af5c4&gt;] rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0xe4/0x120
 [&lt;000002922e7af634&gt;] rebuild_sched_domains+0x34/0x50
 [&lt;000002922e6ba232&gt;] process_one_work+0x1b2/0x490
 [&lt;000002922e6bc4b8&gt;] worker_thread+0x1f8/0x3b0
 [&lt;000002922e6c6a98&gt;] kthread+0x148/0x170
 [&lt;000002922e645ffc&gt;] __ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x240
 [&lt;000002922f51f492&gt;] ret_from_fork+0xa/0x30

Reason for this is that the s390 specific smp initialization code schedules
a work which rebuilds scheduling domains way before the scheduler is smp
aware. With the mentioned commit the (invalid) rebuild request is not
anymore silently discarded but instead leads to warning.

Address this by avoiding the early rebuild request.

Reported-by: Marc Hartmayer &lt;marc@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Hartmayer &lt;marc@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 6ee43047e8ad ("cpuset: Remove unnecessary checks in rebuild_sched_domains_locked") [1]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Add stackprotector support</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T10:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-17T14:09:53+00:00</published>
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Stackprotector support was previously unavailable on s390 because by
default compilers generate code which is not suitable for the kernel:
the canary value is accessed via thread local storage, where the address
of thread local storage is within access registers 0 and 1.

Using those registers also for the kernel would come with a significant
performance impact and more complicated kernel entry/exit code, since
access registers contents would have to be exchanged on every kernel entry
and exit.

With the upcoming gcc 16 release new compiler options will become available
which allow to generate code suitable for the kernel. [1]

Compiler option -mstack-protector-guard=global instructs gcc to generate
stackprotector code that refers to a global stackprotector canary value via
symbol __stack_chk_guard. Access to this value is guaranteed to occur via
larl and lgrl instructions.

Furthermore, compiler option -mstack-protector-guard-record generates a
section containing all code addresses that reference the canary value.

To allow for per task canary values the instructions which load the address
of __stack_chk_guard are patched so they access a lowcore field instead: a
per task canary value is available within the task_struct of each task, and
is written to the per-cpu lowcore location on each context switch.

Also add sanity checks and debugging option to be consistent with other
kernel code patching mechanisms.

Full debugging output can be enabled with the following kernel command line
options:

debug_stackprotector
bootdebug
ignore_loglevel
earlyprintk
dyndbg="file stackprotector.c +p"

Example debug output:

stackprot: 0000021e402d4eda: c010005a9ae3 -&gt; c01f00070240

where "&lt;insn address&gt;: &lt;old insn&gt; -&gt; &lt;new insn&gt;".

[1] gcc commit 0cd1f03939d5 ("s390: Support global stack protector")

Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Stackprotector support was previously unavailable on s390 because by
default compilers generate code which is not suitable for the kernel:
the canary value is accessed via thread local storage, where the address
of thread local storage is within access registers 0 and 1.

Using those registers also for the kernel would come with a significant
performance impact and more complicated kernel entry/exit code, since
access registers contents would have to be exchanged on every kernel entry
and exit.

With the upcoming gcc 16 release new compiler options will become available
which allow to generate code suitable for the kernel. [1]

Compiler option -mstack-protector-guard=global instructs gcc to generate
stackprotector code that refers to a global stackprotector canary value via
symbol __stack_chk_guard. Access to this value is guaranteed to occur via
larl and lgrl instructions.

Furthermore, compiler option -mstack-protector-guard-record generates a
section containing all code addresses that reference the canary value.

To allow for per task canary values the instructions which load the address
of __stack_chk_guard are patched so they access a lowcore field instead: a
per task canary value is available within the task_struct of each task, and
is written to the per-cpu lowcore location on each context switch.

Also add sanity checks and debugging option to be consistent with other
kernel code patching mechanisms.

Full debugging output can be enabled with the following kernel command line
options:

debug_stackprotector
bootdebug
ignore_loglevel
earlyprintk
dyndbg="file stackprotector.c +p"

Example debug output:

stackprot: 0000021e402d4eda: c010005a9ae3 -&gt; c01f00070240

where "&lt;insn address&gt;: &lt;old insn&gt; -&gt; &lt;new insn&gt;".

[1] gcc commit 0cd1f03939d5 ("s390: Support global stack protector")

Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T10:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T15:30:53+00:00</published>
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The KMSG_COMPONENT macro is a leftover of the s390 specific "kernel
message catalog" which never made it upstream.

Remove the macro in order to get rid of a pointless indirection. Replace
all users with the string it defines. In almost all cases this leads to a
simple replacement like this:

 - #define KMSG_COMPONENT "appldata"
 - #define pr_fmt(fmt) KMSG_COMPONENT ": " fmt
 + #define pr_fmt(fmt) "appldata: " fmt

Except for some special cases this is just mechanical/scripted work.

Acked-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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The KMSG_COMPONENT macro is a leftover of the s390 specific "kernel
message catalog" which never made it upstream.

Remove the macro in order to get rid of a pointless indirection. Replace
all users with the string it defines. In almost all cases this leads to a
simple replacement like this:

 - #define KMSG_COMPONENT "appldata"
 - #define pr_fmt(fmt) KMSG_COMPONENT ": " fmt
 + #define pr_fmt(fmt) "appldata: " fmt

Except for some special cases this is just mechanical/scripted work.

Acked-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/smp: Mark pcpu_delegate() and smp_call_ipl_cpu() as __noreturn</title>
<updated>2025-11-06T13:17:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-30T13:42:41+00:00</published>
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pcpu_delegate() never returns to its caller. If the target CPU is the
current CPU, it calls __pcpu_delegate(), whose delegate function is not
supposed to return. In any case, even if __pcpu_delegate() unexpectedly
returns, pcpu_delegate() sends SIGP_STOP to the current CPU and waits
in an infinite loop. Annotate pcpu_delegate() with the __noreturn
attribute to improve compiler optimizations.

Also annotate smp_call_ipl_cpu() accordingly since it always calls
pcpu_delegate().

[hca: Merge two patches from Thorsten Blum]

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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pcpu_delegate() never returns to its caller. If the target CPU is the
current CPU, it calls __pcpu_delegate(), whose delegate function is not
supposed to return. In any case, even if __pcpu_delegate() unexpectedly
returns, pcpu_delegate() sends SIGP_STOP to the current CPU and waits
in an infinite loop. Annotate pcpu_delegate() with the __noreturn
attribute to improve compiler optimizations.

Also annotate smp_call_ipl_cpu() accordingly since it always calls
pcpu_delegate().

[hca: Merge two patches from Thorsten Blum]

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/smp: Fix fallback CPU detection</title>
<updated>2025-10-23T14:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-20T14:17:54+00:00</published>
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In case SCLP CPU detection does not work a fallback mechanism using SIGP is
in place. Since a cleanup this does not work correctly anymore: new CPUs
are only considered if their type matches the boot CPU.

Before the cleanup the information if a CPU type should be considered was
also part of a structure generated by the fallback mechanism and indicated
that a CPU type should not be considered when adding CPUs.

Since the rework a global SCLP state is used instead. If the global SCLP
state indicates that the CPU type should be considered and the fallback
mechanism is used, there may be a mismatch with CPU types if CPUs are
added. This can lead to a system with only a single CPU even tough there
are many more CPUs.

Address this by simply copying the boot cpu type into the generated data
structure from the fallback mechanism.

Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov &lt;egorenar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: d08d94306e90 ("s390/smp: cleanup core vs. cpu in the SCLP interface")
Reviewed-by: Mete Durlu &lt;meted@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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In case SCLP CPU detection does not work a fallback mechanism using SIGP is
in place. Since a cleanup this does not work correctly anymore: new CPUs
are only considered if their type matches the boot CPU.

Before the cleanup the information if a CPU type should be considered was
also part of a structure generated by the fallback mechanism and indicated
that a CPU type should not be considered when adding CPUs.

Since the rework a global SCLP state is used instead. If the global SCLP
state indicates that the CPU type should be considered and the fallback
mechanism is used, there may be a mismatch with CPU types if CPUs are
added. This can lead to a system with only a single CPU even tough there
are many more CPUs.

Address this by simply copying the boot cpu type into the generated data
structure from the fallback mechanism.

Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov &lt;egorenar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: d08d94306e90 ("s390/smp: cleanup core vs. cpu in the SCLP interface")
Reviewed-by: Mete Durlu &lt;meted@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T11:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-25T08:45:18+00:00</published>
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Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies. Compilers use the
number of lines of inline assemblies as heuristic for the complexity
and inline decisions. Therefore inline assemblies should only contain
as many lines as required.

A lot of inline assemblies contain a superfluous newline for the last
line. Remove such newlines to improve compiler inlining decisions.

Suggested-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies. Compilers use the
number of lines of inline assemblies as heuristic for the complexity
and inline decisions. Therefore inline assemblies should only contain
as many lines as required.

A lot of inline assemblies contain a superfluous newline for the last
line. Remove such newlines to improve compiler inlining decisions.

Suggested-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/smp: Use monotonic clock in smp_emergency_stop()</title>
<updated>2025-07-21T10:41:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sven Schnelle</name>
<email>svens@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-10T07:43:11+00:00</published>
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This is a cosmetic change because when in smp_emergency_stop()
the system is going to die anyway. But still change the code
to use get_tod_clock_monotonic() to prevent people from copying
broken code.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<pre>
This is a cosmetic change because when in smp_emergency_stop()
the system is going to die anyway. But still change the code
to use get_tod_clock_monotonic() to prevent people from copying
broken code.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/smp: Remove conditional emergency signal order code usage</title>
<updated>2025-06-30T13:03:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-24T14:34:35+00:00</published>
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pcpu_ec_call() uses either the external call or emergency signal order
code to signal (aka send an IPI) to a remote CPU. If the remote CPU is
not running the emergency signal order is used.

Measurements show that always using the external order code is at least
as good, and sometimes even better, than the existing code.

Therefore remove emergency signal order code usage from pcpu_ec_call().

Suggested-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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pcpu_ec_call() uses either the external call or emergency signal order
code to signal (aka send an IPI) to a remote CPU. If the remote CPU is
not running the emergency signal order is used.

Measurements show that always using the external order code is at least
as good, and sometimes even better, than the existing code.

Therefore remove emergency signal order code usage from pcpu_ec_call().

Suggested-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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