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<title>linux.git/arch/sh/kernel, branch v4.15</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)</name>
<email>alexander.levin@verizon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:35:54+00:00</published>
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Convert all allocations that used a NOTRACK flag to stop using it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-3-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tim Hansen &lt;devtimhansen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegardno@ifi.uio.no&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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Convert all allocations that used a NOTRACK flag to stop using it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-3-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tim Hansen &lt;devtimhansen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegardno@ifi.uio.no&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>mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page*</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:34:22+00:00</published>
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empty_bad_page() and empty_bad_pte_table() seem to be relics from old
days which is not used by any code for a long time.  I have tried to
find when exactly but this is not really all that straightforward due to
many code movements - traces disappear around 2.4 times.

Anyway no code really references neither empty_bad_page nor
empty_bad_pte_table.  We only allocate the storage which is not used by
anybody so remove them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004150045.30755-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linus-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&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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empty_bad_page() and empty_bad_pte_table() seem to be relics from old
days which is not used by any code for a long time.  I have tried to
find when exactly but this is not really all that straightforward due to
many code movements - traces disappear around 2.4 times.

Anyway no code really references neither empty_bad_page nor
empty_bad_pte_table.  We only allocate the storage which is not used by
anybody so remove them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004150045.30755-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linus-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.15' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T00:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-15T00:54:12+00:00</published>
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - turn dma_cache_sync into a dma_map_ops instance and remove
   implementation that purely are dead because the architecture doesn't
   support noncoherent allocations

 - add a flag for busses that need DMA configuration (Robin Murphy)

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.15' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
  dma-mapping: turn dma_cache_sync into a dma_map_ops method
  sh: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  xtensa: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  unicore32: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  powerpc: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  mn10300: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  microblaze: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  ia64: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  frv: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  x86: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  floppy: consolidate the dummy fd_cacheflush definition
  drivers: flag buses which demand DMA configuration
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - turn dma_cache_sync into a dma_map_ops instance and remove
   implementation that purely are dead because the architecture doesn't
   support noncoherent allocations

 - add a flag for busses that need DMA configuration (Robin Murphy)

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.15' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
  dma-mapping: turn dma_cache_sync into a dma_map_ops method
  sh: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  xtensa: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  unicore32: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  powerpc: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  mn10300: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  microblaze: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  ia64: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  frv: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  x86: make dma_cache_sync a no-op
  floppy: consolidate the dummy fd_cacheflush definition
  drivers: flag buses which demand DMA configuration
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd'/>
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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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<pre>
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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sh: make dma_cache_sync a no-op</title>
<updated>2017-10-19T14:37:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-27T08:35:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e0c6584df9c414b50de17e1abc1099f7501bbb60'/>
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<content type='text'>
sh does not implement DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT allocations, so it doesn't
make any sense to do any work in dma_cache_sync given that it
must be a no-op when dma_alloc_attrs returns coherent memory.

On the other hand sh uses dma_cache_sync internally in the dma_ops
implementation and for the maple bus that does not use the DMA API,
so a the old functionality for dma_cache_sync is still provided under
the name sh_sync_dma_for_device, and without the redundant dev
argument.  While at it two of the syncing dma_ops also go the proper
_for_device postfix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
sh does not implement DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT allocations, so it doesn't
make any sense to do any work in dma_cache_sync given that it
must be a no-op when dma_alloc_attrs returns coherent memory.

On the other hand sh uses dma_cache_sync internally in the dma_ops
implementation and for the maple bus that does not use the DMA API,
so a the old functionality for dma_cache_sync is still provided under
the name sh_sync_dma_for_device, and without the redundant dev
argument.  While at it two of the syncing dma_ops also go the proper
_for_device postfix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T22:11:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T22:11:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=98ced886dd79a7028d203ed8adea8452bbfb47b6'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild thin archives updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.

  THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
  only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
  intermediate-artifact schemes.

  Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
  various advantages:

   - save disk space for builds

   - speed-up building a little

   - fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to more
     flexibility for the final linking

   - work better with dead code elimination we are planning

  As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally so
  that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".

  With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
  showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now"

* tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  tile: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile
  kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
  x86/um: thin archives build fix
  tile: thin archives fix linking
  ia64: thin archives fix linking
  sh: thin archives fix linking
  kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
  kbuild: thin archives use P option to ar
  kbuild: thin archives final link close --whole-archives option
  ia64: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile.gate
  tile: fix dependency and .*.cmd inclusion for incremental build
  sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs
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Pull Kbuild thin archives updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.

  THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
  only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
  intermediate-artifact schemes.

  Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
  various advantages:

   - save disk space for builds

   - speed-up building a little

   - fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to more
     flexibility for the final linking

   - work better with dead code elimination we are planning

  As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally so
  that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".

  With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
  showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now"

* tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  tile: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile
  kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
  x86/um: thin archives build fix
  tile: thin archives fix linking
  ia64: thin archives fix linking
  sh: thin archives fix linking
  kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
  kbuild: thin archives use P option to ar
  kbuild: thin archives final link close --whole-archives option
  ia64: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile.gate
  tile: fix dependency and .*.cmd inclusion for incremental build
  sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sh: thin archives fix linking</title>
<updated>2017-06-30T00:03:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T12:39:27+00:00</published>
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<id>8f5ef7c74ac778a16a89bc054e316dcade304784</id>
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The VDSO symbols can't be linked into built-in.o when building with
thin archives, so change this to linking a new object file that is
included into the built-in.o.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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The VDSO symbols can't be linked into built-in.o when building with
thin archives, so change this to linking a new object file that is
included into the built-in.o.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sh/ftrace: Remove only user of ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info()</title>
<updated>2017-06-27T15:01:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-26T22:17:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fbb789f0d631473585d17afb120d07561d329689'/>
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I noticed that there's only one user of ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info().
That was used a while ago during the NMI updating in x86, and superh
copied it to implement its version of handling NMIs during
stop_machine().

But that is a debug feature, and this code hasn't been touched since
2009. Also, x86 no longer does the ftrace updates with stop_machine()
and instead uses breakpoints. If superh needs to modify its code, it
should implement the breakpoint conversion, and remove stop_machine().
Which also gets rid of the NMI issue.

Anyway, I want to nuke ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info() and this gets rid of
the one user, which is for an arch that shouldn't need it anymore.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626181749.2ce954d1@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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I noticed that there's only one user of ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info().
That was used a while ago during the NMI updating in x86, and superh
copied it to implement its version of handling NMIs during
stop_machine().

But that is a debug feature, and this code hasn't been touched since
2009. Also, x86 no longer does the ftrace updates with stop_machine()
and instead uses breakpoints. If superh needs to modify its code, it
should implement the breakpoint conversion, and remove stop_machine().
Which also gets rid of the NMI issue.

Anyway, I want to nuke ftrace_arch_read_dyn_info() and this gets rid of
the one user, which is for an arch that shouldn't need it anymore.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626181749.2ce954d1@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Move task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand types and accessors into &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T00:43:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T07:35:14+00:00</published>
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<id>c3edc4010e9d102eb7b8f17d15c2ebc425fed63c</id>
<content type='text'>
task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand are pointers, which would normally make it
straightforward to not define those types in sched.h.

That is not so, because the types are accompanied by a myriad of APIs (macros and inline
functions) that dereference them.

Split the types and the APIs out of sched.h and move them into a new header, &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;.

With this change sched.h does not know about 'struct signal' and 'struct sighand' anymore,
trying to put accessors into sched.h as a test fails the following way:

  ./include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘test_signal_types’:
  ./include/linux/sched.h:2461:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct signal_struct’
                    ^

This reduces the size and complexity of sched.h significantly.

Update all headers and .c code that relied on getting the signal handling
functionality from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to include &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;.

The list of affected files in the preparatory patch was partly generated by
grepping for the APIs, and partly by doing coverage build testing, both
all[yes|mod|def|no]config builds on 64-bit and 32-bit x86, and an array of
cross-architecture builds.

Nevertheless some (trivial) build breakage is still expected related to rare
Kconfig combinations and in-flight patches to various kernel code, but most
of it should be handled by this patch.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand are pointers, which would normally make it
straightforward to not define those types in sched.h.

That is not so, because the types are accompanied by a myriad of APIs (macros and inline
functions) that dereference them.

Split the types and the APIs out of sched.h and move them into a new header, &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;.

With this change sched.h does not know about 'struct signal' and 'struct sighand' anymore,
trying to put accessors into sched.h as a test fails the following way:

  ./include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘test_signal_types’:
  ./include/linux/sched.h:2461:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct signal_struct’
                    ^

This reduces the size and complexity of sched.h significantly.

Update all headers and .c code that relied on getting the signal handling
functionality from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to include &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;.

The list of affected files in the preparatory patch was partly generated by
grepping for the APIs, and partly by doing coverage build testing, both
all[yes|mod|def|no]config builds on 64-bit and 32-bit x86, and an array of
cross-architecture builds.

Nevertheless some (trivial) build breakage is still expected related to rare
Kconfig combinations and in-flight patches to various kernel code, but most
of it should be handled by this patch.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Move task-&gt;mm handling methods to &lt;linux/sched/mm.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T00:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T18:08:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=68e21be2916b359fd8afb536c1911dc014cfd03e'/>
<id>68e21be2916b359fd8afb536c1911dc014cfd03e</id>
<content type='text'>
Move the following task-&gt;mm helper APIs into a new header file,
&lt;linux/sched/mm.h&gt;, to further reduce the size and complexity
of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;.

Here are how the APIs are used in various kernel files:

  # mm_alloc():
  arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c
  fs/exec.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c

  # __mmdrop():
  arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c

  # mmdrop():
  arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c
  arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c
  arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c
  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
  fs/exec.c
  fs/proc/base.c
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c
  fs/proc/task_nommu.c
  fs/userfaultfd.c
  include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c
  kernel/futex.c
  kernel/sched/core.c
  mm/khugepaged.c
  mm/ksm.c
  mm/mmu_context.c
  mm/mmu_notifier.c
  mm/oom_kill.c
  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

  # mmdrop_async_fn():
  include/linux/sched/mm.h

  # mmdrop_async():
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c

  # mmget_not_zero():
  fs/userfaultfd.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  mm/oom_kill.c

  # mmput():
  arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
  arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
  arch/frv/mm/mmu-context.c
  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
  arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_context_32.h
  drivers/android/binder.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_v2.c
  drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c
  drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
  drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c
  drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c
  drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
  drivers/vhost/vhost.c
  drivers/xen/gntdev.c
  fs/exec.c
  fs/proc/array.c
  fs/proc/base.c
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c
  fs/proc/task_nommu.c
  fs/userfaultfd.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/cpuset.c
  kernel/events/core.c
  kernel/events/uprobes.c
  kernel/exit.c
  kernel/fork.c
  kernel/ptrace.c
  kernel/sys.c
  kernel/trace/trace_output.c
  kernel/tsacct.c
  mm/memcontrol.c
  mm/memory.c
  mm/mempolicy.c
  mm/migrate.c
  mm/mmu_notifier.c
  mm/nommu.c
  mm/oom_kill.c
  mm/process_vm_access.c
  mm/rmap.c
  mm/swapfile.c
  mm/util.c
  virt/kvm/async_pf.c

  # mmput_async():
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c
  mm/oom_kill.c

  # get_task_mm():
  arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
  drivers/android/binder.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_v2.c
  drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c
  drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
  drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c
  drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c
  drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
  drivers/vhost/vhost.c
  drivers/xen/gntdev.c
  fs/proc/array.c
  fs/proc/base.c
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/cpuset.c
  kernel/events/core.c
  kernel/exit.c
  kernel/fork.c
  kernel/ptrace.c
  kernel/sys.c
  kernel/trace/trace_output.c
  kernel/tsacct.c
  mm/memcontrol.c
  mm/memory.c
  mm/mempolicy.c
  mm/migrate.c
  mm/mmu_notifier.c
  mm/nommu.c
  mm/util.c

  # mm_access():
  fs/proc/base.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c
  mm/process_vm_access.c

  # mm_release():
  arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
  fs/exec.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  include/uapi/linux/sched.h
  kernel/exit.c
  kernel/fork.c

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Move the following task-&gt;mm helper APIs into a new header file,
&lt;linux/sched/mm.h&gt;, to further reduce the size and complexity
of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;.

Here are how the APIs are used in various kernel files:

  # mm_alloc():
  arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c
  fs/exec.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c

  # __mmdrop():
  arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c

  # mmdrop():
  arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c
  arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c
  arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c
  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
  fs/exec.c
  fs/proc/base.c
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c
  fs/proc/task_nommu.c
  fs/userfaultfd.c
  include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c
  kernel/futex.c
  kernel/sched/core.c
  mm/khugepaged.c
  mm/ksm.c
  mm/mmu_context.c
  mm/mmu_notifier.c
  mm/oom_kill.c
  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

  # mmdrop_async_fn():
  include/linux/sched/mm.h

  # mmdrop_async():
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c

  # mmget_not_zero():
  fs/userfaultfd.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  mm/oom_kill.c

  # mmput():
  arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
  arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
  arch/frv/mm/mmu-context.c
  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
  arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_context_32.h
  drivers/android/binder.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_v2.c
  drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c
  drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
  drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c
  drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c
  drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
  drivers/vhost/vhost.c
  drivers/xen/gntdev.c
  fs/exec.c
  fs/proc/array.c
  fs/proc/base.c
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c
  fs/proc/task_nommu.c
  fs/userfaultfd.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/cpuset.c
  kernel/events/core.c
  kernel/events/uprobes.c
  kernel/exit.c
  kernel/fork.c
  kernel/ptrace.c
  kernel/sys.c
  kernel/trace/trace_output.c
  kernel/tsacct.c
  mm/memcontrol.c
  mm/memory.c
  mm/mempolicy.c
  mm/migrate.c
  mm/mmu_notifier.c
  mm/nommu.c
  mm/oom_kill.c
  mm/process_vm_access.c
  mm/rmap.c
  mm/swapfile.c
  mm/util.c
  virt/kvm/async_pf.c

  # mmput_async():
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c
  mm/oom_kill.c

  # get_task_mm():
  arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c
  drivers/android/binder.c
  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
  drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
  drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_v2.c
  drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c
  drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
  drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c
  drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c
  drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
  drivers/vhost/vhost.c
  drivers/xen/gntdev.c
  fs/proc/array.c
  fs/proc/base.c
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/cpuset.c
  kernel/events/core.c
  kernel/exit.c
  kernel/fork.c
  kernel/ptrace.c
  kernel/sys.c
  kernel/trace/trace_output.c
  kernel/tsacct.c
  mm/memcontrol.c
  mm/memory.c
  mm/mempolicy.c
  mm/migrate.c
  mm/mmu_notifier.c
  mm/nommu.c
  mm/util.c

  # mm_access():
  fs/proc/base.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  kernel/fork.c
  mm/process_vm_access.c

  # mm_release():
  arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
  fs/exec.c
  include/linux/sched/mm.h
  include/uapi/linux/sched.h
  kernel/exit.c
  kernel/fork.c

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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