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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc</title>
<updated>2017-11-18T04:21:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-18T04:21:44+00:00</published>
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Pull sparc updates from David Miller:

 1) Add missing cmpxchg64() for 32-bit sparc.

 2) Timer conversions from Allen Pais and Kees Cook.

 3) vDSO support, from Nagarathnam Muthusamy.

 4) Fix sparc64 huge page table walks based upon bug report by Al Viro,
    from Nitin Gupta.

 5) Optimized fls() for T4 and above, from Vijay Kumar.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc64: Fix page table walk for PUD hugepages
  sparc64: Convert timers to user timer_setup()
  sparc64: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  sparc64: Use sparc optimized fls and __fls for T4 and above
  sparc64: SPARC optimized __fls function
  sparc64: SPARC optimized fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default __fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default fls function
  vDSO for sparc
  sparc32: Add cmpxchg64().
  sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
  sparc: time: Remove unneeded linux/miscdevice.h include
  sparc64: mmu_context: Add missing include files
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Pull sparc updates from David Miller:

 1) Add missing cmpxchg64() for 32-bit sparc.

 2) Timer conversions from Allen Pais and Kees Cook.

 3) vDSO support, from Nagarathnam Muthusamy.

 4) Fix sparc64 huge page table walks based upon bug report by Al Viro,
    from Nitin Gupta.

 5) Optimized fls() for T4 and above, from Vijay Kumar.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc64: Fix page table walk for PUD hugepages
  sparc64: Convert timers to user timer_setup()
  sparc64: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  sparc64: Use sparc optimized fls and __fls for T4 and above
  sparc64: SPARC optimized __fls function
  sparc64: SPARC optimized fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default __fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default fls function
  vDSO for sparc
  sparc32: Add cmpxchg64().
  sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
  sparc: time: Remove unneeded linux/miscdevice.h include
  sparc64: mmu_context: Add missing include files
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-11-17T19:54:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T19:54:55+00:00</published>
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Pull compat and uaccess updates from Al Viro:

 - {get,put}_compat_sigset() series

 - assorted compat ioctl stuff

 - more set_fs() elimination

 - a few more timespec64 conversions

 - several removals of pointless access_ok() in places where it was
   followed only by non-__ variants of primitives

* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (24 commits)
  coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink
  fs: expose do_unlinkat for built-in callers
  ext4: take handling of EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD into a helper, get rid of set_fs()
  ipmi: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  pi433: sanitize ioctl
  cxlflash: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  mtdchar: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  r128: switch compat ioctls to drm_ioctl_kernel()
  selection: get rid of field-by-field copyin
  VT_RESIZEX: get rid of field-by-field copyin
  i2c compat ioctls: move to -&gt;compat_ioctl()
  sched_rr_get_interval(): move compat to native, get rid of set_fs()
  mips: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  sparc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  s390: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  ppc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  parisc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  get_compat_sigset()
  get rid of {get,put}_compat_itimerspec()
  io_getevents: Use timespec64 to represent timeouts
  ...
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Pull compat and uaccess updates from Al Viro:

 - {get,put}_compat_sigset() series

 - assorted compat ioctl stuff

 - more set_fs() elimination

 - a few more timespec64 conversions

 - several removals of pointless access_ok() in places where it was
   followed only by non-__ variants of primitives

* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (24 commits)
  coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink
  fs: expose do_unlinkat for built-in callers
  ext4: take handling of EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD into a helper, get rid of set_fs()
  ipmi: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  pi433: sanitize ioctl
  cxlflash: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  mtdchar: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  r128: switch compat ioctls to drm_ioctl_kernel()
  selection: get rid of field-by-field copyin
  VT_RESIZEX: get rid of field-by-field copyin
  i2c compat ioctls: move to -&gt;compat_ioctl()
  sched_rr_get_interval(): move compat to native, get rid of set_fs()
  mips: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  sparc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  s390: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  ppc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  parisc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  get_compat_sigset()
  get rid of {get,put}_compat_itimerspec()
  io_getevents: Use timespec64 to represent timeouts
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sparc64: Convert timers to user timer_setup()</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T05:36:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Allen Pais</name>
<email>allen.pais@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-24T09:38:13+00:00</published>
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Switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
in LDOM Virtual I/O handshake.

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais &lt;allen.pais@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
in LDOM Virtual I/O handshake.

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais &lt;allen.pais@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T05:28:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elena Reshetova</name>
<email>elena.reshetova@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-20T07:57:57+00:00</published>
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atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference
counters with the following properties:
 - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
 - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
 - once counter reaches zero, its further
   increments aren't allowed
 - counter schema uses basic atomic operations
   (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)

Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows
and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows
can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.

The variable mdesc_handle.refcnt is used as pure reference counter.
Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference
counters with the following properties:
 - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
 - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
 - once counter reaches zero, its further
   increments aren't allowed
 - counter schema uses basic atomic operations
   (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)

Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows
and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows
can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.

The variable mdesc_handle.refcnt is used as pure reference counter.
Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T05:27:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T22:07:27+00:00</published>
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In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly. Adds a static variable to hold timeout
value.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly. Adds a static variable to hold timeout
value.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Use sparc optimized fls and __fls for T4 and above</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T05:26:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vijay Kumar</name>
<email>vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-11T18:50:06+00:00</published>
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For T4 and above, patch fls and __fls functions
at the boot time to use lzcnt instruction.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Kumar &lt;vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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For T4 and above, patch fls and __fls functions
at the boot time to use lzcnt instruction.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Kumar &lt;vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vDSO for sparc</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T05:21:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nagarathnam Muthusamy</name>
<email>nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-21T15:05:31+00:00</published>
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Following patch is based on work done by Nick Alcock on 64-bit vDSO for sparc
in Oracle linux. I have extended it to include support for 32-bit vDSO for sparc
on 64-bit kernel.

vDSO for sparc is based on the X86 implementation. This patch
provides vDSO support for both 64-bit and 32-bit programs on 64-bit kernel.
vDSO will be disabled on 32-bit linux kernel on sparc.

*) vclock_gettime.c contains all the vdso functions. Since data page is mapped
   before the vdso code page, the pointer to data page is got by subracting offset
   from an address in the vdso code page. The return address stored in
   %i7 is used for this purpose.
*) During compilation, both 32-bit and 64-bit vdso images are compiled and are
   converted into raw bytes by vdso2c program to be ready for mapping into the
   process. 32-bit images are compiled only if CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. vdso2c
   generates two files vdso-image-64.c and vdso-image-32.c which contains the
   respective vDSO image in C structure.
*) During vdso initialization, required number of vdso pages are allocated and
   raw bytes are copied into the pages.
*) During every exec, these pages are mapped into the process through
   arch_setup_additional_pages and the location of mapping is passed on to the
   process through aux vector AT_SYSINFO_EHDR which is used by glibc.
*) A new update_vsyscall routine for sparc is added to keep the data page in
   vdso updated.
*) As vDSO cannot contain dynamically relocatable references, a new version of
   cpu_relax is added for the use of vDSO.

This change also requires a putback to glibc to use vDSO. For testing,
programs planning to try vDSO can be compiled against the generated
vdso(64/32).so in the source.

Testing:

========
[root@localhost ~]# cat vdso_test.c
int main() {
        struct timespec tv_start, tv_end;
        struct timeval tv_tmp;
	int i;
        int count = 1 * 1000 * 10000;
	long long diff;

        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_start);
        for (i = 0; i &lt; count; i++)
              gettimeofday(&amp;tv_tmp, NULL);
        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_end);
        diff = (long long)(tv_end.tv_sec -
		tv_start.tv_sec)*(1*1000*1000*1000);
        diff += (tv_end.tv_nsec - tv_start.tv_nsec);
	printf("Start sec: %d\n", tv_start.tv_sec);
	printf("End sec  : %d\n", tv_end.tv_sec);
        printf("%d cycles in %lld ns = %f ns/cycle\n", count, diff,
		(double)diff / (double)count);
        return 0;
}

[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_without_fix -m32 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396130
End sec  : 1502396140
10000000 cycles in 9565148528 ns = 956.514853 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_with_fix -m32 ./vdso32.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396168
End sec  : 1502396169
10000000 cycles in 798141262 ns = 79.814126 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_without_fix -m64 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396208
End sec  : 1502396218
10000000 cycles in 9846091800 ns = 984.609180 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_with_fix -m64 ./vdso64.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396257
End sec  : 1502396257
10000000 cycles in 380984048 ns = 38.098405 ns/cycle

V1 to V2 Changes:
=================
	Added hot patching code to switch the read stick instruction to read
tick instruction based on the hardware.

V2 to V3 Changes:
=================
	Merged latest changes from sparc-next and moved the initialization
of clocksource_tick.archdata.vclock_mode to time_init_early. Disabled
queued spinlock and rwlock configuration when simulating 32-bit config
to compile 32-bit VDSO.

V3 to V4 Changes:
=================
	Hardcoded the page size as 8192 in linker script for both 64-bit and
32-bit binaries. Removed unused variables in vdso2c.h. Added -mv8plus flag to
Makefile to prevent the generation of relocation entries for __lshrdi3 in 32-bit
vdso binary.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock &lt;nick.alcock@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy &lt;nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Following patch is based on work done by Nick Alcock on 64-bit vDSO for sparc
in Oracle linux. I have extended it to include support for 32-bit vDSO for sparc
on 64-bit kernel.

vDSO for sparc is based on the X86 implementation. This patch
provides vDSO support for both 64-bit and 32-bit programs on 64-bit kernel.
vDSO will be disabled on 32-bit linux kernel on sparc.

*) vclock_gettime.c contains all the vdso functions. Since data page is mapped
   before the vdso code page, the pointer to data page is got by subracting offset
   from an address in the vdso code page. The return address stored in
   %i7 is used for this purpose.
*) During compilation, both 32-bit and 64-bit vdso images are compiled and are
   converted into raw bytes by vdso2c program to be ready for mapping into the
   process. 32-bit images are compiled only if CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled. vdso2c
   generates two files vdso-image-64.c and vdso-image-32.c which contains the
   respective vDSO image in C structure.
*) During vdso initialization, required number of vdso pages are allocated and
   raw bytes are copied into the pages.
*) During every exec, these pages are mapped into the process through
   arch_setup_additional_pages and the location of mapping is passed on to the
   process through aux vector AT_SYSINFO_EHDR which is used by glibc.
*) A new update_vsyscall routine for sparc is added to keep the data page in
   vdso updated.
*) As vDSO cannot contain dynamically relocatable references, a new version of
   cpu_relax is added for the use of vDSO.

This change also requires a putback to glibc to use vDSO. For testing,
programs planning to try vDSO can be compiled against the generated
vdso(64/32).so in the source.

Testing:

========
[root@localhost ~]# cat vdso_test.c
int main() {
        struct timespec tv_start, tv_end;
        struct timeval tv_tmp;
	int i;
        int count = 1 * 1000 * 10000;
	long long diff;

        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_start);
        for (i = 0; i &lt; count; i++)
              gettimeofday(&amp;tv_tmp, NULL);
        clock_gettime(0, &amp;tv_end);
        diff = (long long)(tv_end.tv_sec -
		tv_start.tv_sec)*(1*1000*1000*1000);
        diff += (tv_end.tv_nsec - tv_start.tv_nsec);
	printf("Start sec: %d\n", tv_start.tv_sec);
	printf("End sec  : %d\n", tv_end.tv_sec);
        printf("%d cycles in %lld ns = %f ns/cycle\n", count, diff,
		(double)diff / (double)count);
        return 0;
}

[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_without_fix -m32 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396130
End sec  : 1502396140
10000000 cycles in 9565148528 ns = 956.514853 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t32_with_fix -m32 ./vdso32.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t32_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396168
End sec  : 1502396169
10000000 cycles in 798141262 ns = 79.814126 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_without_fix -m64 -lrt
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_without_fix
Start sec: 1502396208
End sec  : 1502396218
10000000 cycles in 9846091800 ns = 984.609180 ns/cycle
[root@localhost ~]# cc vdso_test.c -o t64_with_fix -m64 ./vdso64.so.dbg
[root@localhost ~]# ./t64_with_fix
Start sec: 1502396257
End sec  : 1502396257
10000000 cycles in 380984048 ns = 38.098405 ns/cycle

V1 to V2 Changes:
=================
	Added hot patching code to switch the read stick instruction to read
tick instruction based on the hardware.

V2 to V3 Changes:
=================
	Merged latest changes from sparc-next and moved the initialization
of clocksource_tick.archdata.vclock_mode to time_init_early. Disabled
queued spinlock and rwlock configuration when simulating 32-bit config
to compile 32-bit VDSO.

V3 to V4 Changes:
=================
	Hardcoded the page size as 8192 in linker script for both 64-bit and
32-bit binaries. Removed unused variables in vdso2c.h. Added -mv8plus flag to
Makefile to prevent the generation of relocation entries for __lshrdi3 in 32-bit
vdso binary.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock &lt;nick.alcock@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy &lt;nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson &lt;shannon.nelson@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-11-14T01:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T01:56:58+00:00</published>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another big pile of changes:

   - More year 2038 work from Arnd slowly reaching the point where we
     need to think about the syscalls themself.

   - A new timer function which allows to conditionally (re)arm a timer
     only when it's either not running or the new expiry time is sooner
     than the armed expiry time. This allows to use a single timer for
     multiple timeout requirements w/o caring about the first expiry
     time at the call site.

   - A new NMI safe accessor to clock real time for the printk timestamp
     work. Can be used by tracing, perf as well if required.

   - A large number of timer setup conversions from Kees which got
     collected here because either maintainers requested so or they
     simply got ignored. As Kees pointed out already there are a few
     trivial merge conflicts and some redundant commits which was
     unavoidable due to the size of this conversion effort.

   - Avoid a redundant iteration in the timer wheel softirq processing.

   - Provide a mechanism to treat RTC implementations depending on their
     hardware properties, i.e. don't inflict the write at the 0.5
     seconds boundary which originates from the PC CMOS RTC to all RTCs.
     No functional change as drivers need to be updated separately.

   - The usual small updates to core code clocksource drivers. Nothing
     really exciting"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (111 commits)
  timers: Add a function to start/reduce a timer
  pstore: Use ktime_get_real_fast_ns() instead of __getnstimeofday()
  timer: Prepare to change all DEFINE_TIMER() callbacks
  netfilter: ipvs: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  scsi: qla2xxx: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  block/aoe: discover_timer: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  ide: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drbd: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  mailbox: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  crypto: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/pcmcia: omap1: Fix error in automated timer conversion
  ARM: footbridge: Fix typo in timer conversion
  drivers/sgi-xp: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/pcmcia: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/memstick: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/macintosh: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  hwrng/xgene-rng: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  auxdisplay: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  mips: ip22/32: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  ...
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another big pile of changes:

   - More year 2038 work from Arnd slowly reaching the point where we
     need to think about the syscalls themself.

   - A new timer function which allows to conditionally (re)arm a timer
     only when it's either not running or the new expiry time is sooner
     than the armed expiry time. This allows to use a single timer for
     multiple timeout requirements w/o caring about the first expiry
     time at the call site.

   - A new NMI safe accessor to clock real time for the printk timestamp
     work. Can be used by tracing, perf as well if required.

   - A large number of timer setup conversions from Kees which got
     collected here because either maintainers requested so or they
     simply got ignored. As Kees pointed out already there are a few
     trivial merge conflicts and some redundant commits which was
     unavoidable due to the size of this conversion effort.

   - Avoid a redundant iteration in the timer wheel softirq processing.

   - Provide a mechanism to treat RTC implementations depending on their
     hardware properties, i.e. don't inflict the write at the 0.5
     seconds boundary which originates from the PC CMOS RTC to all RTCs.
     No functional change as drivers need to be updated separately.

   - The usual small updates to core code clocksource drivers. Nothing
     really exciting"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (111 commits)
  timers: Add a function to start/reduce a timer
  pstore: Use ktime_get_real_fast_ns() instead of __getnstimeofday()
  timer: Prepare to change all DEFINE_TIMER() callbacks
  netfilter: ipvs: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  scsi: qla2xxx: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  block/aoe: discover_timer: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  ide: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drbd: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  mailbox: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  crypto: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/pcmcia: omap1: Fix error in automated timer conversion
  ARM: footbridge: Fix typo in timer conversion
  drivers/sgi-xp: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/pcmcia: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/memstick: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  drivers/macintosh: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  hwrng/xgene-rng: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  auxdisplay: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  mips: ip22/32: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T22:50:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T04:26:26+00:00</published>
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In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly. Adds a static variable to hold timeout
value.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly. Adds a static variable to hold timeout
value.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&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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