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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T22:31:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T22:31:10+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
    of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf

 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
    Kicinski.

 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.

 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
    UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.

 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.

 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.

 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.

 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.

10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.

12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
    Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.

13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
    Russell King.

14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
    from Jakub Kicinski.

16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
    Schimmel.

17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.

18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
    Pirko.

19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.

20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.

21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.

22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
    Ahern.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
  tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
  ip6mr: fix stale iterator
  net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
  openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
  r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
  qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
  rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
  ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
  ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
  qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
  tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
  ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
  net: macb: Handle HRESP error
  net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
  ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
  ipv6: change route cache aging logic
  i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
  bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
    of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf

 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
    Kicinski.

 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.

 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
    UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.

 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.

 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.

 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.

 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.

10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.

12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
    Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.

13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
    Russell King.

14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
    from Jakub Kicinski.

16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
    Schimmel.

17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.

18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
    Pirko.

19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.

20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.

21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.

22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
    Ahern.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
  tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
  ip6mr: fix stale iterator
  net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
  openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
  r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
  qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
  rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
  ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
  ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
  qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
  tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
  ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
  net: macb: Handle HRESP error
  net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
  ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
  ipv6: change route cache aging logic
  i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
  bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
  ...
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<entry>
<title>perf tools: Integrating the CoreSight decoding library</title>
<updated>2018-01-25T09:37:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Poirier</name>
<email>mathieu.poirier@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-17T17:52:10+00:00</published>
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The Open CoreSight Decoding Library (openCSD) is a free and open library
to decode traces collected by the CoreSight hardware infrastructure.

This patch adds the required mechanic to recognise the presence of the
openCSD library on a system and set up miscellaneous flags to be used in
the compilation of the trace decoding feature.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516211539-5166-2-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516635644-24819-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
[ Merged missing test-libopencsd.c file, provided later by Mathieu ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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The Open CoreSight Decoding Library (openCSD) is a free and open library
to decode traces collected by the CoreSight hardware infrastructure.

This patch adds the required mechanic to recognise the presence of the
openCSD library on a system and set up miscellaneous flags to be used in
the compilation of the trace decoding feature.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier &lt;mathieu.poirier@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Mike Leach &lt;mike.leach@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516211539-5166-2-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516635644-24819-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
[ Merged missing test-libopencsd.c file, provided later by Mathieu ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools: bpftool: add -DPACKAGE when including bfd.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T00:15:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiong Wang</name>
<email>jiong.wang@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T23:51:47+00:00</published>
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bfd.h is requiring including of config.h except when PACKAGE or
PACKAGE_VERSION are defined.

  /* PR 14072: Ensure that config.h is included first.  */
  #if !defined PACKAGE &amp;&amp; !defined PACKAGE_VERSION
  #error config.h must be included before this header
  #endif

This check has been introduced since May-2012. It doesn't show up in bfd.h
on some Linux distribution, probably because distributions have remove it
when building the package.

However, sometimes the user might just build libfd from source code then
link bpftool against it. For this case, bfd.h will be original that we need
to define PACKAGE or PACKAGE_VERSION.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang &lt;jiong.wang@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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bfd.h is requiring including of config.h except when PACKAGE or
PACKAGE_VERSION are defined.

  /* PR 14072: Ensure that config.h is included first.  */
  #if !defined PACKAGE &amp;&amp; !defined PACKAGE_VERSION
  #error config.h must be included before this header
  #endif

This check has been introduced since May-2012. It doesn't show up in bfd.h
on some Linux distribution, probably because distributions have remove it
when building the package.

However, sometimes the user might just build libfd from source code then
link bpftool against it. For this case, bfd.h will be original that we need
to define PACKAGE or PACKAGE_VERSION.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang &lt;jiong.wang@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/bpftool: fix bpftool build with bintutils &gt;= 2.9</title>
<updated>2017-12-30T00:07:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-27T19:16:29+00:00</published>
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Bpftool build is broken with binutils version 2.29 and later.
The cause is commit 003ca0fd2286 ("Refactor disassembler selection")
in the binutils repo, which changed the disassembler() function
signature.

Fix this by adding a new "feature" to the tools/build/features
infrastructure and make it responsible for decision which
disassembler() function signature to use.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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Bpftool build is broken with binutils version 2.29 and later.
The cause is commit 003ca0fd2286 ("Refactor disassembler selection")
in the binutils repo, which changed the disassembler() function
signature.

Fix this by adding a new "feature" to the tools/build/features
infrastructure and make it responsible for decision which
disassembler() function signature to use.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools build feature: Check if pthread_barrier_t is available</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T13:21:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-05T13:14:42+00:00</published>
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As 'perf bench futex wake-parallel" will use this, which is not
available in older systems such as versions of the android NDK used in
my container build tests (r12b and r15c at the moment).

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: James Yang &lt;james.yang@arm.com
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1i7iv54in4wj08lwo55b0pzv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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As 'perf bench futex wake-parallel" will use this, which is not
available in older systems such as versions of the android NDK used in
my container build tests (r12b and r15c at the moment).

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: James Yang &lt;james.yang@arm.com
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1i7iv54in4wj08lwo55b0pzv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<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>
<entry>
<title>tools build tests: Don't hardcode gcc name</title>
<updated>2017-08-28T19:44:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carrillo-Cisneros</name>
<email>davidcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-27T07:54:37+00:00</published>
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Use $(CC) instead of harcoded gcc binary name.

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170827075442.108534-2-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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Use $(CC) instead of harcoded gcc binary name.

Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros &lt;davidcc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170827075442.108534-2-davidcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2017-08-10T10:02:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-10T10:02:26+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, s390: fix build for libbpf and selftest suite</title>
<updated>2017-08-04T18:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-04T12:20:55+00:00</published>
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The BPF feature test as well as libbpf is missing the __NR_bpf
define for s390 and currently refuses to compile (selftest suite
depends on libbpf as well). Similar issue was fixed some time
ago via b0c47807d31d ("bpf: Add sparc support to tools and
samples."), just do the same and add definitions.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The BPF feature test as well as libbpf is missing the __NR_bpf
define for s390 and currently refuses to compile (selftest suite
depends on libbpf as well). Similar issue was fixed some time
ago via b0c47807d31d ("bpf: Add sparc support to tools and
samples."), just do the same and add definitions.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up latest fixes and refresh the tree</title>
<updated>2017-07-30T09:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-30T09:15:13+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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