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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>microblaze: use generic dma_noncoherent_ops</title>
<updated>2018-07-20T12:29:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-19T12:54:39+00:00</published>
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Switch to the generic noncoherent direct mapping implementation.

This removes the direction-based optimizations in
sync_{single,sg}_for_{cpu,device} which were marked untestested and
do not match the usually very well tested {un,}map_{single,sg}
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
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Switch to the generic noncoherent direct mapping implementation.

This removes the direction-based optimizations in
sync_{single,sg}_for_{cpu,device} which were marked untestested and
do not match the usually very well tested {un,}map_{single,sg}
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Add an asm-generic/compat.h file</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T11:28:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-26T14:59:15+00:00</published>
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We have a couple of files that try to include asm/compat.h on
architectures where this is available. Those should generally use the
higher-level linux/compat.h file, but that in turn fails to include
asm/compat.h when CONFIG_COMPAT is disabled, unless we can provide
that header on all architectures.

This adds the asm/compat.h for all remaining architectures to
simplify the dependencies.

Architectures that are getting removed in linux-4.17 are not changed
here, to avoid needless conflicts with the removal patches. Those
architectures are broken by this patch, but we have already shown
that they have no users.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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We have a couple of files that try to include asm/compat.h on
architectures where this is available. Those should generally use the
higher-level linux/compat.h file, but that in turn fails to include
asm/compat.h when CONFIG_COMPAT is disabled, unless we can provide
that header on all architectures.

This adds the asm/compat.h for all remaining architectures to
simplify the dependencies.

Architectures that are getting removed in linux-4.17 are not changed
here, to avoid needless conflicts with the removal patches. Those
architectures are broken by this patch, but we have already shown
that they have no users.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-01-03T17:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-02T23:50:06+00:00</published>
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Now that every architecture is using the generic clkdev.h file
and we no longer include asm/clkdev.h anywhere in the tree, we
can remove it.

Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
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Now that every architecture is using the generic clkdev.h file
and we no longer include asm/clkdev.h anywhere in the tree, we
can remove it.

Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>microblaze: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild</title>
<updated>2017-07-09T18:43:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-09T18:32:48+00:00</published>
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Since commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), all (and only) headers under uapi directories are
exported, but asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions.

To complete de-coupling the uapi from kernel headers, move generic-y
of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild.

With this change, "make headers_install" will just need to parse
uapi/asm/Kbuild to build up exported headers.

For microblaze, "generic-y += siginfo.h" is doubled in asm/Kbuild and
uapi/asm/Kbuild.  So, the one in the former can be simply removed.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Since commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), all (and only) headers under uapi directories are
exported, but asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions.

To complete de-coupling the uapi from kernel headers, move generic-y
of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild.

With this change, "make headers_install" will just need to parse
uapi/asm/Kbuild to build up exported headers.

For microblaze, "generic-y += siginfo.h" is doubled in asm/Kbuild and
uapi/asm/Kbuild.  So, the one in the former can be simply removed.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>microblaze: remove asm-generic wrapper headers</title>
<updated>2017-05-29T09:06:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-19T11:45:16+00:00</published>
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Some of microblaze's asm and uapi header are merely including their
asm-generic counterpart. Thus, the arch specific headers can be removed
and the asm-generic header can be used directly via generic-y.

The headers removed from uapi don't need to be added to generic-y in the
uapi Kbuild in order to get exported, as they are already listed in
mandatory-y.

Also order the generic-y list alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
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Some of microblaze's asm and uapi header are merely including their
asm-generic counterpart. Thus, the arch specific headers can be removed
and the asm-generic header can be used directly via generic-y.

The headers removed from uapi don't need to be added to generic-y in the
uapi Kbuild in order to get exported, as they are already listed in
mandatory-y.

Also order the generic-y list alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>microblaze: switch to generic extable.h</title>
<updated>2017-03-28T22:23:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-25T19:34:44+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes: move kprobe declarations to asm-generic/kprobes.h</title>
<updated>2017-02-28T02:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-27T22:26:56+00:00</published>
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Often all is needed is these small helpers, instead of compiler.h or a
full kprobes.h.  This is important for asm helpers, in fact even some
asm/kprobes.h make use of these helpers...  instead just keep a generic
asm file with helpers useful for asm code with the least amount of
clutter as possible.

Likewise we need now to also address what to do about this file for both
when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES, and when they do not.  Then
for when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES but have disabled
CONFIG_KPROBES.

Right now most asm/kprobes.h do not have guards against CONFIG_KPROBES,
this means most architecture code cannot include asm/kprobes.h safely.
Correct this and add guards for architectures missing them.
Additionally provide architectures that not have kprobes support with
the default asm-generic solution.  This lets us force asm/kprobes.h on
the header include/linux/kprobes.h always, but most importantly we can
now safely include just asm/kprobes.h on architecture code without
bringing the full kitchen sink of header files.

Two architectures already provided a guard against CONFIG_KPROBES on its
kprobes.h: sh, arch.  The rest of the architectures needed gaurds added.
We avoid including any not-needed headers on asm/kprobes.h unless
kprobes have been enabled.

In a subsequent atomic change we can try now to remove compiler.h from
include/linux/kprobes.h.

During this sweep I've also identified a few architectures defining a
common macro needed for both kprobes and ftrace, that of the definition
of the breakput instruction up.  Some refer to this as
BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION.  This must be kept outside of the #ifdef
CONFIG_KPROBES guard.

[mcgrof@kernel.org: fix arm64 build]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAB=NE6X1WMByuARS4mZ1g9+W=LuVBnMDnh_5zyN0CLADaVh=Jw@mail.gmail.com
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup for kprobes declarations moving]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214165933.13ebd4f4@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203233139.32682-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Often all is needed is these small helpers, instead of compiler.h or a
full kprobes.h.  This is important for asm helpers, in fact even some
asm/kprobes.h make use of these helpers...  instead just keep a generic
asm file with helpers useful for asm code with the least amount of
clutter as possible.

Likewise we need now to also address what to do about this file for both
when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES, and when they do not.  Then
for when architectures have CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES but have disabled
CONFIG_KPROBES.

Right now most asm/kprobes.h do not have guards against CONFIG_KPROBES,
this means most architecture code cannot include asm/kprobes.h safely.
Correct this and add guards for architectures missing them.
Additionally provide architectures that not have kprobes support with
the default asm-generic solution.  This lets us force asm/kprobes.h on
the header include/linux/kprobes.h always, but most importantly we can
now safely include just asm/kprobes.h on architecture code without
bringing the full kitchen sink of header files.

Two architectures already provided a guard against CONFIG_KPROBES on its
kprobes.h: sh, arch.  The rest of the architectures needed gaurds added.
We avoid including any not-needed headers on asm/kprobes.h unless
kprobes have been enabled.

In a subsequent atomic change we can try now to remove compiler.h from
include/linux/kprobes.h.

During this sweep I've also identified a few architectures defining a
common macro needed for both kprobes and ftrace, that of the definition
of the breakput instruction up.  Some refer to this as
BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION.  This must be kept outside of the #ifdef
CONFIG_KPROBES guard.

[mcgrof@kernel.org: fix arm64 build]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAB=NE6X1WMByuARS4mZ1g9+W=LuVBnMDnh_5zyN0CLADaVh=Jw@mail.gmail.com
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup for kprobes declarations moving]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170214165933.13ebd4f4@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203233139.32682-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Remove generic asm headers</title>
<updated>2017-02-01T08:14:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T03:09:51+00:00</published>
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cputime_t is now only used by two architectures:

	* powerpc (when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y)
	* s390

And since the core doesn't use it anymore, we don't need any arch support
from the others. So we can remove their stub implementations.

A final cleanup would be to provide an efficient pure arch
implementation of cputime_to_nsec() for s390 and powerpc and finally
remove include/linux/cputime.h .

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-36-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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cputime_t is now only used by two architectures:

	* powerpc (when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y)
	* s390

And since the core doesn't use it anymore, we don't need any arch support
from the others. So we can remove their stub implementations.

A final cleanup would be to provide an efficient pure arch
implementation of cputime_to_nsec() for s390 and powerpc and finally
remove include/linux/cputime.h .

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-36-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</published>
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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<title>mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files</title>
<updated>2015-07-17T23:39:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Dufour</name>
<email>ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-17T23:23:58+00:00</published>
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Commit 2ae416b142b6 ("mm: new mm hook framework") introduced an empty
header file (mm-arch-hooks.h) for every architecture, even those which
doesn't need to define mm hooks.

As suggested by Geert Uytterhoeven, this could be cleaned through the use
of a generic header file included via each per architecture
asm/include/Kbuild file.

The PowerPC architecture is not impacted here since this architecture has
to defined the arch_remap MM hook.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 2ae416b142b6 ("mm: new mm hook framework") introduced an empty
header file (mm-arch-hooks.h) for every architecture, even those which
doesn't need to define mm hooks.

As suggested by Geert Uytterhoeven, this could be cleaned through the use
of a generic header file included via each per architecture
asm/include/Kbuild file.

The PowerPC architecture is not impacted here since this architecture has
to defined the arch_remap MM hook.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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