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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T02:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T02:05:28+00:00</published>
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Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.

  Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
  SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
  resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
  SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
  include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."

Fixed up conflicts as per Al.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
  new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
  generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
  introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
  new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
  new helper: restore_altstack()
  unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
  new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
  missing user_stack_pointer() instances
  Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure
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Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.

  Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
  SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
  resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
  SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
  include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."

Fixed up conflicts as per Al.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
  new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
  generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
  introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
  new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
  new helper: restore_altstack()
  unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
  new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
  missing user_stack_pointer() instances
  Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu</title>
<updated>2012-12-20T18:07:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T18:07:25+00:00</published>
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Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "A few new features this merge-window.  The most important one is
  probably, that dma-debug now warns if a dma-handle is not checked with
  dma_mapping_error by the device driver.  This requires minor changes
  to some architectures which make use of dma-debug.  Most of these
  changes have the respective Acks by the Arch-Maintainers.

  Besides that there are updates to the AMD IOMMU driver for refactor
  the IOMMU-Groups support and to make sure it does not trigger a
  hardware erratum.

  The OMAP changes (for which I pulled in a branch from Tony Lindgren's
  tree) have a conflict in linux-next with the arm-soc tree.  The
  conflict is in the file arch/arm/mach-omap2/clock44xx_data.c which is
  deleted in the arm-soc tree.  It is safe to delete the file too so
  solve the conflict.  Similar changes are done in the arm-soc tree in
  the common clock framework migration.  A missing hunk from the patch
  in the IOMMU tree will be submitted as a seperate patch when the
  merge-window is closed."

* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (29 commits)
  ARM: dma-mapping: support debug_dma_mapping_error
  ARM: OMAP4: hwmod data: ipu and dsp to use parent clocks instead of leaf clocks
  iommu/omap: Adapt to runtime pm
  iommu/omap: Migrate to hwmod framework
  iommu/omap: Keep mmu enabled when requested
  iommu/omap: Remove redundant clock handling on ISR
  iommu/amd: Remove obsolete comment
  iommu/amd: Don't use 512GB pages
  iommu/tegra: smmu: Move bus_set_iommu after probe for multi arch
  iommu/tegra: gart: Move bus_set_iommu after probe for multi arch
  iommu/tegra: smmu: Remove unnecessary PTC/TLB flush all
  tile: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  sh: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  powerpc: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  mips: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  microblaze: dma-mapping: support debug_dma_mapping_error
  ia64: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  c6x: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  ARM64: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  intel-iommu: Prevent devices with RMRRs from being placed into SI Domain
  ...
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Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
 "A few new features this merge-window.  The most important one is
  probably, that dma-debug now warns if a dma-handle is not checked with
  dma_mapping_error by the device driver.  This requires minor changes
  to some architectures which make use of dma-debug.  Most of these
  changes have the respective Acks by the Arch-Maintainers.

  Besides that there are updates to the AMD IOMMU driver for refactor
  the IOMMU-Groups support and to make sure it does not trigger a
  hardware erratum.

  The OMAP changes (for which I pulled in a branch from Tony Lindgren's
  tree) have a conflict in linux-next with the arm-soc tree.  The
  conflict is in the file arch/arm/mach-omap2/clock44xx_data.c which is
  deleted in the arm-soc tree.  It is safe to delete the file too so
  solve the conflict.  Similar changes are done in the arm-soc tree in
  the common clock framework migration.  A missing hunk from the patch
  in the IOMMU tree will be submitted as a seperate patch when the
  merge-window is closed."

* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (29 commits)
  ARM: dma-mapping: support debug_dma_mapping_error
  ARM: OMAP4: hwmod data: ipu and dsp to use parent clocks instead of leaf clocks
  iommu/omap: Adapt to runtime pm
  iommu/omap: Migrate to hwmod framework
  iommu/omap: Keep mmu enabled when requested
  iommu/omap: Remove redundant clock handling on ISR
  iommu/amd: Remove obsolete comment
  iommu/amd: Don't use 512GB pages
  iommu/tegra: smmu: Move bus_set_iommu after probe for multi arch
  iommu/tegra: gart: Move bus_set_iommu after probe for multi arch
  iommu/tegra: smmu: Remove unnecessary PTC/TLB flush all
  tile: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  sh: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  powerpc: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  mips: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  microblaze: dma-mapping: support debug_dma_mapping_error
  ia64: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  c6x: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  ARM64: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
  intel-iommu: Prevent devices with RMRRs from being placed into SI Domain
  ...
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<entry>
<title>missing user_stack_pointer() instances</title>
<updated>2012-12-19T23:07:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-14T06:50:19+00:00</published>
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for the architectures that have usp in pt_regs and do not have
user_stack_pointer() already defined.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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for the architectures that have usp in pt_regs and do not have
user_stack_pointer() already defined.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series</title>
<updated>2012-12-19T23:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-14T17:44:11+00:00</published>
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All architectures have
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
	__ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers
of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left.
Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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All architectures have
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
	__ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers
of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left.
Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2012-12-18T23:05:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-18T23:05:30+00:00</published>
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Pull tile updates from Chris Metcalf:
 "These are a smattering of minor changes from Tilera and other folks,
  mostly in the ptrace area."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: set CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET on tile
  arch/tile: implement arch_ptrace using user_regset on tile
  arch/tile: implement user_regset interface on tile
  arch/tile: clean up tile-specific PTRACE_SETOPTIONS
  arch/tile: provide PT_FLAGS_COMPAT value in pt_regs
  tile/PCI: use for_each_pci_dev to simplify the code
  tilegx: remove __init from pci fixup hook
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Pull tile updates from Chris Metcalf:
 "These are a smattering of minor changes from Tilera and other folks,
  mostly in the ptrace area."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: set CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET on tile
  arch/tile: implement arch_ptrace using user_regset on tile
  arch/tile: implement user_regset interface on tile
  arch/tile: clean up tile-specific PTRACE_SETOPTIONS
  arch/tile: provide PT_FLAGS_COMPAT value in pt_regs
  tile/PCI: use for_each_pci_dev to simplify the code
  tilegx: remove __init from pci fixup hook
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/tile: set CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET on tile</title>
<updated>2012-12-18T19:53:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Marchi</name>
<email>simon.marchi@polymtl.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-18T01:08:11+00:00</published>
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Following the previous patch which adds support for user_regset, tile
can now use this feature.

Signed-off-by: Simon Marchi &lt;simon.marchi@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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Following the previous patch which adds support for user_regset, tile
can now use this feature.

Signed-off-by: Simon Marchi &lt;simon.marchi@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>compat: generic compat_sys_sched_rr_get_interval() implementation</title>
<updated>2012-12-18T01:15:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-18T00:01:45+00:00</published>
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This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat support.
 The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for PowerPC to do
the u32-&gt;int sign extension.

The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile, sparc and arm64 is
to keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched
function declarations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;  [for tile]
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat support.
 The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for PowerPC to do
the u32-&gt;int sign extension.

The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile, sparc and arm64 is
to keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched
function declarations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;  [for tile]
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>
<title>arch/tile: clean up tile-specific PTRACE_SETOPTIONS</title>
<updated>2012-12-14T17:56:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-13T16:34:45+00:00</published>
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Use the newer idioms for setting PTRACE_O_xxx and PT_TRACE_xxx flags.
Only set/clear tile-specific flags if the generic routine returns
success, since otherwise we want to avoid setting any flags at all.
Atomically update the ptrace flags with the new values.  Eliminate
the PT_TRACE_MASK_TILE bitmask and just shift PTRACE_O_MASK_TILE.
Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to avoid overlapping with generic bits.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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Use the newer idioms for setting PTRACE_O_xxx and PT_TRACE_xxx flags.
Only set/clear tile-specific flags if the generic routine returns
success, since otherwise we want to avoid setting any flags at all.
Atomically update the ptrace flags with the new values.  Eliminate
the PT_TRACE_MASK_TILE bitmask and just shift PTRACE_O_MASK_TILE.
Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to avoid overlapping with generic bits.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/tile: provide PT_FLAGS_COMPAT value in pt_regs</title>
<updated>2012-12-13T16:34:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T22:24:39+00:00</published>
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This flag is set for ptrace GETREGS or PEEKUSER for processes
that are COMPAT, i.e. 32-bit.  This allows things like strace
to easily discover what personality to use, for example.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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This flag is set for ptrace GETREGS or PEEKUSER for processes
that are COMPAT, i.e. 32-bit.  This allows things like strace
to easily discover what personality to use, for example.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</published>
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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