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<title>Merge branch 'for-4.16/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2018-01-29T19:51:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-29T19:51:49+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block IO related changes for the
  4.16 kernel. Nothing major in this pull request, but a good amount of
  improvements and fixes all over the map. This contains:

   - BFQ improvements, fixes, and cleanups from Angelo, Chiara, and
     Paolo.

   - Support for SMR zones for deadline and mq-deadline from Damien and
     Christoph.

   - Set of fixes for bcache by way of Michael Lyle, including fixes
     from himself, Kent, Rui, Tang, and Coly.

   - Series from Matias for lightnvm with fixes from Hans Holmberg,
     Javier, and Matias. Mostly centered around pblk, and the removing
     rrpc 1.2 in preparation for supporting 2.0.

   - A couple of NVMe pull requests from Christoph. Nothing major in
     here, just fixes and cleanups, and support for command tracing from
     Johannes.

   - Support for blk-throttle for tracking reads and writes separately.
     From Joseph Qi. A few cleanups/fixes also for blk-throttle from
     Weiping.

   - Series from Mike Snitzer that enables dm to register its queue more
     logically, something that's alwways been problematic on dm since
     it's a stacked device.

   - Series from Ming cleaning up some of the bio accessor use, in
     preparation for supporting multipage bvecs.

   - Various fixes from Ming closing up holes around queue mapping and
     quiescing.

   - BSD partition fix from Richard Narron, fixing a problem where we
     can't mount newer (10/11) FreeBSD partitions.

   - Series from Tejun reworking blk-mq timeout handling. The previous
     scheme relied on atomic bits, but it had races where we would think
     a request had timed out if it to reused at the wrong time.

   - null_blk now supports faking timeouts, to enable us to better
     exercise and test that functionality separately. From me.

   - Kill the separate atomic poll bit in the request struct. After
     this, we don't use the atomic bits on blk-mq anymore at all. From
     me.

   - sgl_alloc/free helpers from Bart.

   - Heavily contended tag case scalability improvement from me.

   - Various little fixes and cleanups from Arnd, Bart, Corentin,
     Douglas, Eryu, Goldwyn, and myself"

* 'for-4.16/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (186 commits)
  block: remove smart1,2.h
  nvme: add tracepoint for nvme_complete_rq
  nvme: add tracepoint for nvme_setup_cmd
  nvme-pci: introduce RECONNECTING state to mark initializing procedure
  nvme-rdma: remove redundant boolean for inline_data
  nvme: don't free uuid pointer before printing it
  nvme-pci: Suspend queues after deleting them
  bsg: use pr_debug instead of hand crafted macros
  blk-mq-debugfs: don't allow write on attributes with seq_operations set
  nvme-pci: Fix queue double allocations
  block: Set BIO_TRACE_COMPLETION on new bio during split
  blk-throttle: use queue_is_rq_based
  block: Remove kblockd_schedule_delayed_work{,_on}()
  blk-mq: Avoid that blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() introduces unintended delays
  blk-mq: Rename blk_mq_request_direct_issue() into blk_mq_request_issue_directly()
  lib/scatterlist: Fix chaining support in sgl_alloc_order()
  blk-throttle: track read and write request individually
  block: add bdev_read_only() checks to common helpers
  block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions
  blk-throttle: export io_serviced_recursive, io_service_bytes_recursive
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block IO related changes for the
  4.16 kernel. Nothing major in this pull request, but a good amount of
  improvements and fixes all over the map. This contains:

   - BFQ improvements, fixes, and cleanups from Angelo, Chiara, and
     Paolo.

   - Support for SMR zones for deadline and mq-deadline from Damien and
     Christoph.

   - Set of fixes for bcache by way of Michael Lyle, including fixes
     from himself, Kent, Rui, Tang, and Coly.

   - Series from Matias for lightnvm with fixes from Hans Holmberg,
     Javier, and Matias. Mostly centered around pblk, and the removing
     rrpc 1.2 in preparation for supporting 2.0.

   - A couple of NVMe pull requests from Christoph. Nothing major in
     here, just fixes and cleanups, and support for command tracing from
     Johannes.

   - Support for blk-throttle for tracking reads and writes separately.
     From Joseph Qi. A few cleanups/fixes also for blk-throttle from
     Weiping.

   - Series from Mike Snitzer that enables dm to register its queue more
     logically, something that's alwways been problematic on dm since
     it's a stacked device.

   - Series from Ming cleaning up some of the bio accessor use, in
     preparation for supporting multipage bvecs.

   - Various fixes from Ming closing up holes around queue mapping and
     quiescing.

   - BSD partition fix from Richard Narron, fixing a problem where we
     can't mount newer (10/11) FreeBSD partitions.

   - Series from Tejun reworking blk-mq timeout handling. The previous
     scheme relied on atomic bits, but it had races where we would think
     a request had timed out if it to reused at the wrong time.

   - null_blk now supports faking timeouts, to enable us to better
     exercise and test that functionality separately. From me.

   - Kill the separate atomic poll bit in the request struct. After
     this, we don't use the atomic bits on blk-mq anymore at all. From
     me.

   - sgl_alloc/free helpers from Bart.

   - Heavily contended tag case scalability improvement from me.

   - Various little fixes and cleanups from Arnd, Bart, Corentin,
     Douglas, Eryu, Goldwyn, and myself"

* 'for-4.16/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (186 commits)
  block: remove smart1,2.h
  nvme: add tracepoint for nvme_complete_rq
  nvme: add tracepoint for nvme_setup_cmd
  nvme-pci: introduce RECONNECTING state to mark initializing procedure
  nvme-rdma: remove redundant boolean for inline_data
  nvme: don't free uuid pointer before printing it
  nvme-pci: Suspend queues after deleting them
  bsg: use pr_debug instead of hand crafted macros
  blk-mq-debugfs: don't allow write on attributes with seq_operations set
  nvme-pci: Fix queue double allocations
  block: Set BIO_TRACE_COMPLETION on new bio during split
  blk-throttle: use queue_is_rq_based
  block: Remove kblockd_schedule_delayed_work{,_on}()
  blk-mq: Avoid that blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() introduces unintended delays
  blk-mq: Rename blk_mq_request_direct_issue() into blk_mq_request_issue_directly()
  lib/scatterlist: Fix chaining support in sgl_alloc_order()
  blk-throttle: track read and write request individually
  block: add bdev_read_only() checks to common helpers
  block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions
  blk-throttle: export io_serviced_recursive, io_service_bytes_recursive
  ...
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<entry>
<title>blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T15:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Gilbert</name>
<email>dgilbert@interlog.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-14T22:00:48+00:00</published>
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During stress tests by syzkaller on the sg driver the block layer
infrequently returns EINVAL. Closer inspection shows the block
layer was trying to return ENOMEM (which is much more
understandable) but for some reason overroad that useful error.

Patch below does not show this (unchanged) line:
   ret =__blk_rq_map_user_iov(rq, map_data, &amp;i, gfp_mask, copy);
That 'ret' was being overridden when that function failed.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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During stress tests by syzkaller on the sg driver the block layer
infrequently returns EINVAL. Closer inspection shows the block
layer was trying to return ENOMEM (which is much more
understandable) but for some reason overroad that useful error.

Patch below does not show this (unchanged) line:
   ret =__blk_rq_map_user_iov(rq, map_data, &amp;i, gfp_mask, copy);
That 'ret' was being overridden when that function failed.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@interlog.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: fix blk_rq_append_bio</title>
<updated>2017-12-18T20:55:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-18T07:40:44+00:00</published>
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Commit caa4b02476e3(blk-map: call blk_queue_bounce from blk_rq_append_bio)
moves blk_queue_bounce() into blk_rq_append_bio(), but don't consider
the fact that the bounced bio becomes invisible to caller since the
parameter type is 'struct bio *'. Make it a pointer to a pointer to
a bio, so the caller sees the right bio also after a bounce.

Fixes: caa4b02476e3 ("blk-map: call blk_queue_bounce from blk_rq_append_bio")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reported-by: Michele Ballabio &lt;barra_cuda@katamail.com&gt;
(handling failure of blk_rq_append_bio(), only call bio_get() after
blk_rq_append_bio() returns OK)
Tested-by: Michele Ballabio &lt;barra_cuda@katamail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Commit caa4b02476e3(blk-map: call blk_queue_bounce from blk_rq_append_bio)
moves blk_queue_bounce() into blk_rq_append_bio(), but don't consider
the fact that the bounced bio becomes invisible to caller since the
parameter type is 'struct bio *'. Make it a pointer to a pointer to
a bio, so the caller sees the right bio also after a bounce.

Fixes: caa4b02476e3 ("blk-map: call blk_queue_bounce from blk_rq_append_bio")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reported-by: Michele Ballabio &lt;barra_cuda@katamail.com&gt;
(handling failure of blk_rq_append_bio(), only call bio_get() after
blk_rq_append_bio() returns OK)
Tested-by: Michele Ballabio &lt;barra_cuda@katamail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-11-17T20:08:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T20:08:18+00:00</published>
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Pull iov_iter updates from Al Viro:

 - bio_{map,copy}_user_iov() series; those are cleanups - fixes from the
   same pile went into mainline (and stable) in late September.

 - fs/iomap.c iov_iter-related fixes

 - new primitive - iov_iter_for_each_range(), which applies a function
   to kernel-mapped segments of an iov_iter.

   Usable for kvec and bvec ones, the latter does kmap()/kunmap() around
   the callback. _Not_ usable for iovec- or pipe-backed iov_iter; the
   latter is not hard to fix if the need ever appears, the former is by
   design.

   Another related primitive will have to wait for the next cycle - it
   passes page + offset + size instead of pointer + size, and that one
   will be usable for everything _except_ kvec. Unfortunately, that one
   didn't get exposure in -next yet, so...

 - a bit more lustre iov_iter work, including a use case for
   iov_iter_for_each_range() (checksum calculation)

 - vhost/scsi leak fix in failure exit

 - misc cleanups and detritectomy...

* 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (21 commits)
  iomap_dio_actor(): fix iov_iter bugs
  switch ksocknal_lib_recv_...() to use of iov_iter_for_each_range()
  lustre: switch struct ksock_conn to iov_iter
  vhost/scsi: switch to iov_iter_get_pages()
  fix a page leak in vhost_scsi_iov_to_sgl() error recovery
  new primitive: iov_iter_for_each_range()
  lnet_return_rx_credits_locked: don't abuse list_entry
  xen: don't open-code iov_iter_kvec()
  orangefs: remove detritus from struct orangefs_kiocb_s
  kill iov_shorten()
  bio_alloc_map_data(): do bmd-&gt;iter setup right there
  bio_copy_user_iov(): saner bio size calculation
  bio_map_user_iov(): get rid of copying iov_iter
  bio_copy_from_iter(): get rid of copying iov_iter
  move more stuff down into bio_copy_user_iov()
  blk_rq_map_user_iov(): move iov_iter_advance() down
  bio_map_user_iov(): get rid of the iov_for_each()
  bio_map_user_iov(): move alignment check into the main loop
  don't rely upon subsequent bio_add_pc_page() calls failing
  ... and with iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() it becomes even simpler
  ...
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Pull iov_iter updates from Al Viro:

 - bio_{map,copy}_user_iov() series; those are cleanups - fixes from the
   same pile went into mainline (and stable) in late September.

 - fs/iomap.c iov_iter-related fixes

 - new primitive - iov_iter_for_each_range(), which applies a function
   to kernel-mapped segments of an iov_iter.

   Usable for kvec and bvec ones, the latter does kmap()/kunmap() around
   the callback. _Not_ usable for iovec- or pipe-backed iov_iter; the
   latter is not hard to fix if the need ever appears, the former is by
   design.

   Another related primitive will have to wait for the next cycle - it
   passes page + offset + size instead of pointer + size, and that one
   will be usable for everything _except_ kvec. Unfortunately, that one
   didn't get exposure in -next yet, so...

 - a bit more lustre iov_iter work, including a use case for
   iov_iter_for_each_range() (checksum calculation)

 - vhost/scsi leak fix in failure exit

 - misc cleanups and detritectomy...

* 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (21 commits)
  iomap_dio_actor(): fix iov_iter bugs
  switch ksocknal_lib_recv_...() to use of iov_iter_for_each_range()
  lustre: switch struct ksock_conn to iov_iter
  vhost/scsi: switch to iov_iter_get_pages()
  fix a page leak in vhost_scsi_iov_to_sgl() error recovery
  new primitive: iov_iter_for_each_range()
  lnet_return_rx_credits_locked: don't abuse list_entry
  xen: don't open-code iov_iter_kvec()
  orangefs: remove detritus from struct orangefs_kiocb_s
  kill iov_shorten()
  bio_alloc_map_data(): do bmd-&gt;iter setup right there
  bio_copy_user_iov(): saner bio size calculation
  bio_map_user_iov(): get rid of copying iov_iter
  bio_copy_from_iter(): get rid of copying iov_iter
  move more stuff down into bio_copy_user_iov()
  blk_rq_map_user_iov(): move iov_iter_advance() down
  bio_map_user_iov(): get rid of the iov_for_each()
  bio_map_user_iov(): move alignment check into the main loop
  don't rely upon subsequent bio_add_pc_page() calls failing
  ... and with iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() it becomes even simpler
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</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;
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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;
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<entry>
<title>move more stuff down into bio_copy_user_iov()</title>
<updated>2017-10-11T21:23:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-24T16:09:21+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk_rq_map_user_iov(): move iov_iter_advance() down</title>
<updated>2017-10-11T21:23:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-24T13:25:39+00:00</published>
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... into bio_{map,copy}_user_iov()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... into bio_{map,copy}_user_iov()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-map: call blk_queue_bounce from blk_rq_append_bio</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T18:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-27T18:13:21+00:00</published>
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This makes moves the knowledge about bouncing out of the callers into the
block core (just like we do for the normal I/O path), and allows to unexport
blk_queue_bounce.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This makes moves the knowledge about bouncing out of the callers into the
block core (just like we do for the normal I/O path), and allows to unexport
blk_queue_bounce.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T17:51:37+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: fold cmd_type into the REQ_OP_ space</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T21:00:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T15:57:31+00:00</published>
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Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations.  The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.

Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Instead of keeping two levels of indirection for requests types, fold it
all into the operations.  The little caveat here is that previously
cmd_type only applied to struct request, while the request and bio op
fields were set to plain REQ_OP_READ/WRITE even for passthrough
operations.

Instead this patch adds new REQ_OP_* for SCSI passthrough and driver
private requests, althought it has to add two for each so that we
can communicate the data in/out nature of the request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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