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<title>staging: vchiq_debugfs: Fix build if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not set</title>
<updated>2024-06-27T13:47:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bernhard Rosenkränzer</name>
<email>bero@baylibre.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-27T12:44:19+00:00</published>
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Commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to
vchiq_state") adds a parameter to vchiq_debugfs_init, but leaves the
dummy implementation in the !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS case untouched, causing a
compile time error.

Fixes: c3552ab19aeb ("staging: vchiq_debugfs: Fix NPD in vchiq_dump_state")
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Rosenkränzer &lt;bero@baylibre.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;wahrenst@gmx.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240627124419.2498642-1-bero@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to
vchiq_state") adds a parameter to vchiq_debugfs_init, but leaves the
dummy implementation in the !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS case untouched, causing a
compile time error.

Fixes: c3552ab19aeb ("staging: vchiq_debugfs: Fix NPD in vchiq_dump_state")
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Rosenkränzer &lt;bero@baylibre.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;wahrenst@gmx.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240627124419.2498642-1-bero@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Fix initialisation check</title>
<updated>2024-06-24T13:27:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kieran Bingham</name>
<email>kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T22:10:42+00:00</published>
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The vchiq_state used to be obtained through an accessor which would
validate that the VCHIQ had been initialised correctly with the remote,
or return a null state.

In commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to
vchiq_state") the global state was moved to the vchiq_mgnt structures
stored as a vchiq instance specific context. This conversion removed the
helpers and instead replaced users of this helper with the assumption
that the state is always available and the remote connected.

The conversion does ensure that the state is always available, so some
remaining state null pointer checks that remain are unnecessary, but the
assumption that the remote is present and initialised is incorrect.

Fix this broken assumption by re-introducing the logic that was lost
during the conversion.

Fixes: 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state")
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;wahrenst@gmx.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain &lt;umang.jain@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620221046.2731704-1-kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The vchiq_state used to be obtained through an accessor which would
validate that the VCHIQ had been initialised correctly with the remote,
or return a null state.

In commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to
vchiq_state") the global state was moved to the vchiq_mgnt structures
stored as a vchiq instance specific context. This conversion removed the
helpers and instead replaced users of this helper with the assumption
that the state is always available and the remote connected.

The conversion does ensure that the state is always available, so some
remaining state null pointer checks that remain are unnecessary, but the
assumption that the remote is present and initialised is incorrect.

Fix this broken assumption by re-introducing the logic that was lost
during the conversion.

Fixes: 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state")
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;wahrenst@gmx.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain &lt;umang.jain@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620221046.2731704-1-kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>staging: vchiq_debugfs: Fix NPD in vchiq_dump_state</title>
<updated>2024-06-04T11:36:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Wahren</name>
<email>wahrenst@gmx.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-24T15:15:42+00:00</published>
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The commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state
to vchiq_state") falsely assumed that the debugfs entry vchiq/state
was created with vchiq_instance as data. This causes now a NULL
pointer derefence while trying to dump the vchiq state. So fix
this by passing vchiq_state as data, because this is the relevant
part here.

Fixes: 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;wahrenst@gmx.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain &lt;umang.jain@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240524151542.19415-1-wahrenst@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state
to vchiq_state") falsely assumed that the debugfs entry vchiq/state
was created with vchiq_instance as data. This causes now a NULL
pointer derefence while trying to dump the vchiq state. So fix
this by passing vchiq_state as data, because this is the relevant
part here.

Fixes: 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren &lt;wahrenst@gmx.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain &lt;umang.jain@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240524151542.19415-1-wahrenst@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'staging-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging</title>
<updated>2024-05-22T19:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-22T19:11:48+00:00</published>
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Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of staging driver changes for 6.10-rc1. Not a lot
  of cleanups happening this kernel release, intern applications must be
  out of sync at the moment. But we did delete two drivers, wlan-ng and
  pi433, as they are no longer in use and the developers involved wanted
  them just gone entirely, allowing us to drop 19k lines from the tree.

  Other than the normal coding style cleanups here, there has been a lot
  of work on the vc04_services code, with the intent to finally get that
  out of staging hopefully soon. It's getting closer, which is nice to
  see.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'staging-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (98 commits)
  staging: pi433: Remove unused driver
  staging: vchiq_core: Add missing blank lines
  staging: vchiq_core: Drop unnecessary blank lines
  staging: vchiq_core: Add parentheses to VCHIQ_MSG_SRCPORT
  staging: vchiq_core: Use printk messages for devices
  staging: vchiq_arm: Drop unnecessary NULL check
  staging: vc04_services: Delete unnecessary NULL check
  staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Fix NULL ptr dereferences
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable DssCCk
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable ExtHTCapInfo
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MPDUDensity
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MaxRxAMPDUFactor
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MaxAMSDUSize
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable DelayBA
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable RxSTBC
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable TxSTBC
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable GreenField
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable ShortGI20Mhz
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable ShortGI40Mhz
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MimoPwrSave
  ...
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Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of staging driver changes for 6.10-rc1. Not a lot
  of cleanups happening this kernel release, intern applications must be
  out of sync at the moment. But we did delete two drivers, wlan-ng and
  pi433, as they are no longer in use and the developers involved wanted
  them just gone entirely, allowing us to drop 19k lines from the tree.

  Other than the normal coding style cleanups here, there has been a lot
  of work on the vc04_services code, with the intent to finally get that
  out of staging hopefully soon. It's getting closer, which is nice to
  see.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'staging-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (98 commits)
  staging: pi433: Remove unused driver
  staging: vchiq_core: Add missing blank lines
  staging: vchiq_core: Drop unnecessary blank lines
  staging: vchiq_core: Add parentheses to VCHIQ_MSG_SRCPORT
  staging: vchiq_core: Use printk messages for devices
  staging: vchiq_arm: Drop unnecessary NULL check
  staging: vc04_services: Delete unnecessary NULL check
  staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Fix NULL ptr dereferences
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable DssCCk
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable ExtHTCapInfo
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MPDUDensity
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MaxRxAMPDUFactor
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MaxAMSDUSize
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable DelayBA
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable RxSTBC
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable TxSTBC
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable GreenField
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable ShortGI20Mhz
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable ShortGI40Mhz
  Staging: rtl8192e: Rename variable MimoPwrSave
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'backlight-next-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlight</title>
<updated>2024-05-22T17:45:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-22T17:45:12+00:00</published>
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Pull backlight updates from Lee Jones:
 "Fix-ups:
   - FB Backlight interaction overhaul
   - Remove superfluous code and simplify overall
   - Constify various structs and struct attributes

  Bug Fixes:
   - Repair LED flickering
   - Fix signedness bugs"

* tag 'backlight-next-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlight: (42 commits)
  backlight: sky81452-backlight: Remove unnecessary call to of_node_get()
  backlight: mp3309c: Fix LEDs flickering in PWM mode
  backlight: otm3225a: Drop driver owner assignment
  backlight: lp8788: Drop support for platform data
  backlight: lcd: Make lcd_class constant
  backlight: Make backlight_class constant
  backlight: mp3309c: Fix signedness bug in mp3309c_parse_fwnode()
  const_structs.checkpatch: add lcd_ops
  fbdev: omap: lcd_ams_delta: Constify lcd_ops
  fbdev: imx: Constify lcd_ops
  fbdev: clps711x: Constify lcd_ops
  HID: picoLCD: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: tdo24m: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: platform_lcd: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: otm3225a: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: ltv350qv: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: lms501kf03: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: lms283gf05: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: l4f00242t03: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: jornada720_lcd: Constify lcd_ops
  ...
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Pull backlight updates from Lee Jones:
 "Fix-ups:
   - FB Backlight interaction overhaul
   - Remove superfluous code and simplify overall
   - Constify various structs and struct attributes

  Bug Fixes:
   - Repair LED flickering
   - Fix signedness bugs"

* tag 'backlight-next-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlight: (42 commits)
  backlight: sky81452-backlight: Remove unnecessary call to of_node_get()
  backlight: mp3309c: Fix LEDs flickering in PWM mode
  backlight: otm3225a: Drop driver owner assignment
  backlight: lp8788: Drop support for platform data
  backlight: lcd: Make lcd_class constant
  backlight: Make backlight_class constant
  backlight: mp3309c: Fix signedness bug in mp3309c_parse_fwnode()
  const_structs.checkpatch: add lcd_ops
  fbdev: omap: lcd_ams_delta: Constify lcd_ops
  fbdev: imx: Constify lcd_ops
  fbdev: clps711x: Constify lcd_ops
  HID: picoLCD: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: tdo24m: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: platform_lcd: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: otm3225a: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: ltv350qv: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: lms501kf03: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: lms283gf05: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: l4f00242t03: Constify lcd_ops
  backlight: jornada720_lcd: Constify lcd_ops
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-19T16:21:03+00:00</published>
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page-&gt;flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize -&gt;esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2024-05-18T19:39:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-18T19:39:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ff9a79307f89563da6d841da8b7cc4a0afceb0e2'/>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Avoid 'constexpr', which is a keyword in C23

 - Allow 'dtbs_check' and 'dt_compatible_check' run independently of
   'dt_binding_check'

 - Fix weak references to avoid GOT entries in position-independent code
   generation

 - Convert the last use of 'optional' property in arch/sh/Kconfig

 - Remove support for the 'optional' property in Kconfig

 - Remove support for Clang's ThinLTO caching, which does not work with
   the .incbin directive

 - Change the semantics of $(src) so it always points to the source
   directory, which fixes Makefile inconsistencies between upstream and
   downstream

 - Fix 'make tar-pkg' for RISC-V to produce a consistent package

 - Provide reasonable default coverage for objtool, sanitizers, and
   profilers

 - Remove redundant OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD, KASAN_SANITIZE, etc.

 - Remove the last use of tristate choice in drivers/rapidio/Kconfig

 - Various cleanups and fixes in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (46 commits)
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in sym_check_prop()
  rapidio: remove choice for enumeration
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove initialization with A_NORMAL
  kconfig: m/nconf: merge two item_add_str() calls
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display value of bool choice
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display children of choice members
  kconfig: gconf: show checkbox for choice correctly
  kbuild: use GCOV_PROFILE and KCSAN_SANITIZE in scripts/Makefile.modfinal
  Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables
  kbuild: provide reasonable defaults for tool coverage
  modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules
  kconfig: use menu_list_for_each_sym() in sym_check_choice_deps()
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: add sym_get_choice_menu() helper
  kconfig: turn defaults and additional prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn missing prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn conf_choice() into void function
  kconfig: use linked list in sym_set_changed()
  kconfig: gconf: use MENU_CHANGED instead of SYMBOL_CHANGED
  kconfig: gconf: remove debug code
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Avoid 'constexpr', which is a keyword in C23

 - Allow 'dtbs_check' and 'dt_compatible_check' run independently of
   'dt_binding_check'

 - Fix weak references to avoid GOT entries in position-independent code
   generation

 - Convert the last use of 'optional' property in arch/sh/Kconfig

 - Remove support for the 'optional' property in Kconfig

 - Remove support for Clang's ThinLTO caching, which does not work with
   the .incbin directive

 - Change the semantics of $(src) so it always points to the source
   directory, which fixes Makefile inconsistencies between upstream and
   downstream

 - Fix 'make tar-pkg' for RISC-V to produce a consistent package

 - Provide reasonable default coverage for objtool, sanitizers, and
   profilers

 - Remove redundant OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD, KASAN_SANITIZE, etc.

 - Remove the last use of tristate choice in drivers/rapidio/Kconfig

 - Various cleanups and fixes in Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (46 commits)
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in sym_check_prop()
  rapidio: remove choice for enumeration
  kconfig: lxdialog: remove initialization with A_NORMAL
  kconfig: m/nconf: merge two item_add_str() calls
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display value of bool choice
  kconfig: m/nconf: remove dead code to display children of choice members
  kconfig: gconf: show checkbox for choice correctly
  kbuild: use GCOV_PROFILE and KCSAN_SANITIZE in scripts/Makefile.modfinal
  Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables
  kbuild: provide reasonable defaults for tool coverage
  modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules
  kconfig: use menu_list_for_each_sym() in sym_check_choice_deps()
  kconfig: use sym_get_choice_menu() in conf_write_defconfig()
  kconfig: add sym_get_choice_menu() helper
  kconfig: turn defaults and additional prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn missing prompt for choice members into error
  kconfig: turn conf_choice() into void function
  kconfig: use linked list in sym_set_changed()
  kconfig: gconf: use MENU_CHANGED instead of SYMBOL_CHANGED
  kconfig: gconf: remove debug code
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'media/v6.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media</title>
<updated>2024-05-16T15:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-16T15:45:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6fd600d742744dc7ef7fc65ca26daa2b1163158a'/>
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Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:

 - New V4L2 ioctl VIDIOC_REMOVE_BUFS

 - experimental support for using generic metaformats on V4L2 core

 - New drivers: Intel IPU6 controller driver, Broadcom BCM283x/BCM271x

 - More cleanups at atomisp driver

 - Usual bunch of driver cleanups, improvements and fixes

* tag 'media/v6.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (328 commits)
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Depend on COMMON_CLK
  Revert "media: v4l2-ctrls: show all owned controls in log_status"
  media: ov2740: Ensure proper reset sequence on probe()
  media: intel/ipu6: Don't print user-triggerable errors to kernel log
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix driver path in MAINTAINERS
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Do not print error when irq not found
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Do not replace IRQ retcode during probe
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  media: media: intel/ipu6: Fix spelling mistake "remappinp" -&gt; "remapping"
  media: intel/ipu6: explicitly include vmalloc.h
  media: cec.h: Fix kerneldoc
  media: uvcvideo: Refactor iterators
  media: v4l: async: refactor v4l2_async_create_ancillary_links
  media: intel/ipu6: Don't re-allocate memory for firmware
  media: dvb-frontends: tda10048: Fix integer overflow
  media: tc358746: Use the correct div_ function
  media: i2c: st-mipid02: Use the correct div function
  media: tegra-vde: Refactor timeout handling
  media: stk1160: Use min macro
  ...
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<pre>
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:

 - New V4L2 ioctl VIDIOC_REMOVE_BUFS

 - experimental support for using generic metaformats on V4L2 core

 - New drivers: Intel IPU6 controller driver, Broadcom BCM283x/BCM271x

 - More cleanups at atomisp driver

 - Usual bunch of driver cleanups, improvements and fixes

* tag 'media/v6.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (328 commits)
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Depend on COMMON_CLK
  Revert "media: v4l2-ctrls: show all owned controls in log_status"
  media: ov2740: Ensure proper reset sequence on probe()
  media: intel/ipu6: Don't print user-triggerable errors to kernel log
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix driver path in MAINTAINERS
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Do not print error when irq not found
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Do not replace IRQ retcode during probe
  media: bcm2835-unicam: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  media: media: intel/ipu6: Fix spelling mistake "remappinp" -&gt; "remapping"
  media: intel/ipu6: explicitly include vmalloc.h
  media: cec.h: Fix kerneldoc
  media: uvcvideo: Refactor iterators
  media: v4l: async: refactor v4l2_async_create_ancillary_links
  media: intel/ipu6: Don't re-allocate memory for firmware
  media: dvb-frontends: tda10048: Fix integer overflow
  media: tc358746: Use the correct div_ function
  media: i2c: st-mipid02: Use the correct div function
  media: tegra-vde: Refactor timeout handling
  media: stk1160: Use min macro
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2024-05-15T01:25:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-15T01:25:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=113d1dd9c8ea2186d56a641a787e2588673c9c32'/>
<id>113d1dd9c8ea2186d56a641a787e2588673c9c32</id>
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "Updates to the usual drivers (ufs, lpfc, qla2xxx, mpi3mr, libsas).

  The major update (which causes a conflict with block, see below) is
  Christoph removing the queue limits and their associated block
  helpers.

  The remaining patches are assorted minor fixes and deprecated function
  updates plus a bit of constification"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (141 commits)
  scsi: mpi3mr: Sanitise num_phys
  scsi: lpfc: Copyright updates for 14.4.0.2 patches
  scsi: lpfc: Update lpfc version to 14.4.0.2
  scsi: lpfc: Add support for 32 byte CDBs
  scsi: lpfc: Change lpfc_hba hba_flag member into a bitmask
  scsi: lpfc: Introduce rrq_list_lock to protect active_rrq_list
  scsi: lpfc: Clear deferred RSCN processing flag when driver is unloading
  scsi: lpfc: Update logging of protection type for T10 DIF I/O
  scsi: lpfc: Change default logging level for unsolicited CT MIB commands
  scsi: target: Remove unused list 'device_list'
  scsi: iscsi: Remove unused list 'connlist_err'
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add support for Tensor gs101 SoC
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add some pa_dbg_ register offsets into drvdata
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Allow max frequencies up to 267Mhz
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add EXYNOS_UFS_OPT_TIMER_TICK_SELECT option
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add EXYNOS_UFS_OPT_UFSPR_SECURE option
  scsi: ufs: dt-bindings: exynos: Add gs101 compatible
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix debugfs output for fw_resource_count
  scsi: qedf: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated
  scsi: bfa: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated
  ...
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<pre>
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "Updates to the usual drivers (ufs, lpfc, qla2xxx, mpi3mr, libsas).

  The major update (which causes a conflict with block, see below) is
  Christoph removing the queue limits and their associated block
  helpers.

  The remaining patches are assorted minor fixes and deprecated function
  updates plus a bit of constification"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (141 commits)
  scsi: mpi3mr: Sanitise num_phys
  scsi: lpfc: Copyright updates for 14.4.0.2 patches
  scsi: lpfc: Update lpfc version to 14.4.0.2
  scsi: lpfc: Add support for 32 byte CDBs
  scsi: lpfc: Change lpfc_hba hba_flag member into a bitmask
  scsi: lpfc: Introduce rrq_list_lock to protect active_rrq_list
  scsi: lpfc: Clear deferred RSCN processing flag when driver is unloading
  scsi: lpfc: Update logging of protection type for T10 DIF I/O
  scsi: lpfc: Change default logging level for unsolicited CT MIB commands
  scsi: target: Remove unused list 'device_list'
  scsi: iscsi: Remove unused list 'connlist_err'
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add support for Tensor gs101 SoC
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add some pa_dbg_ register offsets into drvdata
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Allow max frequencies up to 267Mhz
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add EXYNOS_UFS_OPT_TIMER_TICK_SELECT option
  scsi: ufs: exynos: Add EXYNOS_UFS_OPT_UFSPR_SECURE option
  scsi: ufs: dt-bindings: exynos: Add gs101 compatible
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix debugfs output for fw_resource_count
  scsi: qedf: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated
  scsi: bfa: Ensure the copied buf is NUL terminated
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory</title>
<updated>2024-05-09T19:34:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-27T14:55:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b1992c3772e69a6fd0e3fc81cd4d2820c8b6eca0'/>
<id>b1992c3772e69a6fd0e3fc81cd4d2820c8b6eca0</id>
<content type='text'>
Kbuild conventionally uses $(obj)/ for generated files, and $(src)/ for
checked-in source files. It is merely a convention without any functional
difference. In fact, $(obj) and $(src) are exactly the same, as defined
in scripts/Makefile.build:

    src := $(obj)

When the kernel is built in a separate output directory, $(src) does
not accurately reflect the source directory location. While Kbuild
resolves this discrepancy by specifying VPATH=$(srctree) to search for
source files, it does not cover all cases. For example, when adding a
header search path for local headers, -I$(srctree)/$(src) is typically
passed to the compiler.

This introduces inconsistency between upstream and downstream Makefiles
because $(src) is used instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for the latter.

To address this inconsistency, this commit changes the semantics of
$(src) so that it always points to the directory in the source tree.

Going forward, the variables used in Makefiles will have the following
meanings:

  $(obj)     - directory in the object tree
  $(src)     - directory in the source tree  (changed by this commit)
  $(objtree) - the top of the kernel object tree
  $(srctree) - the top of the kernel source tree

Consequently, $(srctree)/$(src) in upstream Makefiles need to be replaced
with $(src).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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Kbuild conventionally uses $(obj)/ for generated files, and $(src)/ for
checked-in source files. It is merely a convention without any functional
difference. In fact, $(obj) and $(src) are exactly the same, as defined
in scripts/Makefile.build:

    src := $(obj)

When the kernel is built in a separate output directory, $(src) does
not accurately reflect the source directory location. While Kbuild
resolves this discrepancy by specifying VPATH=$(srctree) to search for
source files, it does not cover all cases. For example, when adding a
header search path for local headers, -I$(srctree)/$(src) is typically
passed to the compiler.

This introduces inconsistency between upstream and downstream Makefiles
because $(src) is used instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for the latter.

To address this inconsistency, this commit changes the semantics of
$(src) so that it always points to the directory in the source tree.

Going forward, the variables used in Makefiles will have the following
meanings:

  $(obj)     - directory in the object tree
  $(src)     - directory in the source tree  (changed by this commit)
  $(objtree) - the top of the kernel object tree
  $(srctree) - the top of the kernel source tree

Consequently, $(srctree)/$(src) in upstream Makefiles need to be replaced
with $(src).

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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