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<title>Merge branch 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T04:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T04:02:18+00:00</published>
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Pull time/Y2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate SySV IPC UAPI headers

 - Convert SySV IPC to the new COMPAT_32BIT_TIME mechanism

 - Cleanup the core interfaces and standardize on the ktime_get_* naming
   convention.

 - Convert the X86 platform ops to timespec64

 - Remove the ugly temporary timespec64 hack

* 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  x86: Convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64
  timekeeping: Add more coarse clocktai/boottime interfaces
  timekeeping: Add ktime_get_coarse_with_offset
  timekeeping: Standardize on ktime_get_*() naming
  timekeeping: Clean up ktime_get_real_ts64
  timekeeping: Remove timespec64 hack
  y2038: ipc: Redirect ipc(SEMTIMEDOP, ...) to compat_ksys_semtimedop
  y2038: ipc: Enable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  y2038: ipc: Use __kernel_timespec
  y2038: ipc: Report long times to user space
  y2038: ipc: Use ktime_get_real_seconds consistently
  y2038: xtensa: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: powerpc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: sparc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: parisc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: mips: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: arm64: Extend sysvipc compat data structures
  y2038: s390: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: ia64: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: alpha: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  ...
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Pull time/Y2038 updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Consolidate SySV IPC UAPI headers

 - Convert SySV IPC to the new COMPAT_32BIT_TIME mechanism

 - Cleanup the core interfaces and standardize on the ktime_get_* naming
   convention.

 - Convert the X86 platform ops to timespec64

 - Remove the ugly temporary timespec64 hack

* 'timers-2038-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  x86: Convert x86_platform_ops to timespec64
  timekeeping: Add more coarse clocktai/boottime interfaces
  timekeeping: Add ktime_get_coarse_with_offset
  timekeeping: Standardize on ktime_get_*() naming
  timekeeping: Clean up ktime_get_real_ts64
  timekeeping: Remove timespec64 hack
  y2038: ipc: Redirect ipc(SEMTIMEDOP, ...) to compat_ksys_semtimedop
  y2038: ipc: Enable COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
  y2038: ipc: Use __kernel_timespec
  y2038: ipc: Report long times to user space
  y2038: ipc: Use ktime_get_real_seconds consistently
  y2038: xtensa: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: powerpc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: sparc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: parisc: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: mips: Extend sysvipc data structures
  y2038: arm64: Extend sysvipc compat data structures
  y2038: s390: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: ia64: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  y2038: alpha: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files
  ...
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<entry>
<title>signal/ia64: Replace FPE_FIXME with FPE_FLTUNK</title>
<updated>2018-04-25T15:40:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-17T20:45:30+00:00</published>
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Using an si_code of 0 that aliases with SI_USER is clearly the wrong
thing todo, and causes problems in interesting ways.

The newly defined FPE_FLTUNK semantically appears to fit the bill so
use it instead.

Given recent experience in this area odds are it will not
break anything.  Fixing it removes a hazard to kernel maintenance.

Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 987159266c45 ("Linux version 2.3.48")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Using an si_code of 0 that aliases with SI_USER is clearly the wrong
thing todo, and causes problems in interesting ways.

The newly defined FPE_FLTUNK semantically appears to fit the bill so
use it instead.

Given recent experience in this area odds are it will not
break anything.  Fixing it removes a hazard to kernel maintenance.

Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 987159266c45 ("Linux version 2.3.48")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>y2038: ia64: Remove unneeded ipc uapi header files</title>
<updated>2018-04-20T14:19:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-05T20:47:56+00:00</published>
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The ia64 ipcbuf/msgbuf/sembuf/shmbuf header files are all identical
to the version from asm-generic.

This patch removes the files and replaces them with 'generic-y'
statements as part of the y2038 changes. While ia64 no longer has
a compat mode and doesn't need the file any more, it seem nicer
to clean this up anyway.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The ia64 ipcbuf/msgbuf/sembuf/shmbuf header files are all identical
to the version from asm-generic.

This patch removes the files and replaces them with 'generic-y'
statements as part of the y2038 changes. While ia64 no longer has
a compat mode and doesn't need the file any more, it seem nicer
to clean this up anyway.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</published>
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Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
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Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T23:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-14T00:57:14+00:00</published>
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Having si_codes in many different files simply encourages duplicate
definitions that can cause problems later.  To avoid that merge the
ia64 specific si_codes into uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h

Update the sanity checks in arch/x86/kernel/signal_compat.c to expect
the now lager NSIGILL and NSIGFPE.  As nothing excpe the larger count
is exposed on x86 no additional code needs to be updated.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Having si_codes in many different files simply encourages duplicate
definitions that can cause problems later.  To avoid that merge the
ia64 specific si_codes into uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h

Update the sanity checks in arch/x86/kernel/signal_compat.c to expect
the now lager NSIGILL and NSIGFPE.  As nothing excpe the larger count
is exposed on x86 no additional code needs to be updated.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal/ia64: switch the last arch-specific copy_siginfo_to_user() to generic version</title>
<updated>2018-01-12T20:34:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-31T20:47:40+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64/signal: switch to generic struct siginfo</title>
<updated>2018-01-12T20:34:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-31T19:53:59+00:00</published>
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... at a cost of added small ifdef __ia64__ in asm-generic siginfo.h,
that is.

-- EWB Corrected the comment on _flags to reflect the move

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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... at a cost of added small ifdef __ia64__ in asm-generic siginfo.h,
that is.

-- EWB Corrected the comment on _flags to reflect the move

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T14:02:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hendrik Brueckner</name>
<email>brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-04T09:56:44+00:00</published>
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Commit 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
program type") introduced the bpf_perf_event_data structure which
exports the pt_regs structure.  This is OK for multiple architectures
but fail for s390 and arm64 which do not export pt_regs.  Programs
using them, for example, the bpf selftest fail to compile on these
architectures.

For s390, exporting the pt_regs is not an option because s390 wants
to allow changes to it.  For arm64, there is a user_pt_regs structure
that covers parts of the pt_regs structure for use by user space.

To solve the broken uapi for s390 and arm64, introduce an abstract
type for pt_regs and add an asm/bpf_perf_event.h file that concretes
the type.  An asm-generic header file covers the architectures that
export pt_regs today.

The arch-specific enablement for s390 and arm64 follows in separate
commits.

Reported-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type")
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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Commit 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
program type") introduced the bpf_perf_event_data structure which
exports the pt_regs structure.  This is OK for multiple architectures
but fail for s390 and arm64 which do not export pt_regs.  Programs
using them, for example, the bpf selftest fail to compile on these
architectures.

For s390, exporting the pt_regs is not an option because s390 wants
to allow changes to it.  For arm64, there is a user_pt_regs structure
that covers parts of the pt_regs structure for use by user space.

To solve the broken uapi for s390 and arm64, introduce an abstract
type for pt_regs and add an asm/bpf_perf_event.h file that concretes
the type.  An asm-generic header file covers the architectures that
export pt_regs today.

The arch-specific enablement for s390 and arm64 follows in separate
commits.

Reported-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Fixes: 0515e5999a466dfe ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type")
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>switch wrapper poll.h instances to generic-y</title>
<updated>2017-11-27T21:19:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T00:14:55+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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:09:13+00:00</published>
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Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be.  This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier.  The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier.  The format
is:
        ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text.  The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

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 user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be.  This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier.  The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier.  The format
is:
        ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text.  The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

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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