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<title>mm: fix typos in comments</title>
<updated>2021-05-07T07:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-07T01:06:47+00:00</published>
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Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few
very obvious grammar mistakes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury &lt;unixbhaskar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few
very obvious grammar mistakes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury &lt;unixbhaskar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: make pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages per chunk type</title>
<updated>2021-04-09T13:58:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T03:57:33+00:00</published>
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nr_empty_pop_pages is used to guarantee that there are some free
populated pages to satisfy atomic allocations. Accounted and
non-accounted allocations are using separate sets of chunks,
so both need to have a surplus of empty pages.

This commit makes pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and the corresponding logic
per chunk type.

[Dennis]
This issue came up as I was reviewing [1] and realized I missed this.
Simultaneously, it was reported btrfs was seeing failed atomic
allocations in fsstress tests [2] and [3].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210324190626.564297-1-guro@fb.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210401185158.3275.409509F4@e16-tech.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAL3q7H5RNBjCi708GH7jnczAOe0BLnacT9C+OBgA-Dx9jhB6SQ@mail.gmail.com/

Fixes: 3c7be18ac9a0 ("mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9+
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: Filipe Manana &lt;fdmanana@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
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nr_empty_pop_pages is used to guarantee that there are some free
populated pages to satisfy atomic allocations. Accounted and
non-accounted allocations are using separate sets of chunks,
so both need to have a surplus of empty pages.

This commit makes pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and the corresponding logic
per chunk type.

[Dennis]
This issue came up as I was reviewing [1] and realized I missed this.
Simultaneously, it was reported btrfs was seeing failed atomic
allocations in fsstress tests [2] and [3].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210324190626.564297-1-guro@fb.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210401185158.3275.409509F4@e16-tech.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAL3q7H5RNBjCi708GH7jnczAOe0BLnacT9C+OBgA-Dx9jhB6SQ@mail.gmail.com/

Fixes: 3c7be18ac9a0 ("mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9+
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: Filipe Manana &lt;fdmanana@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups</title>
<updated>2020-08-12T17:57:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:30:17+00:00</published>
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Percpu memory is becoming more and more widely used by various subsystems,
and the total amount of memory controlled by the percpu allocator can make
a good part of the total memory.

As an example, bpf maps can consume a lot of percpu memory, and they are
created by a user.  Also, some cgroup internals (e.g.  memory controller
statistics) can be quite large.  On a machine with many CPUs and big
number of cgroups they can consume hundreds of megabytes.

So the lack of memcg accounting is creating a breach in the memory
isolation.  Similar to the slab memory, percpu memory should be accounted
by default.

To implement the perpcu accounting it's possible to take the slab memory
accounting as a model to follow.  Let's introduce two types of percpu
chunks: root and memcg.  What makes memcg chunks different is an
additional space allocated to store memcg membership information.  If
__GFP_ACCOUNT is passed on allocation, a memcg chunk should be be used.
If it's possible to charge the corresponding size to the target memory
cgroup, allocation is performed, and the memcg ownership data is recorded.
System-wide allocations are performed using root chunks, so there is no
additional memory overhead.

To implement a fast reparenting of percpu memory on memcg removal, we
don't store mem_cgroup pointers directly: instead we use obj_cgroup API,
introduced for slab accounting.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n build errors and warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move unreachable code, per Roman]
[cuibixuan@huawei.com: mm/percpu: fix 'defined but not used' warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d41b939-a741-b521-a7a2-e7296ec16219@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bixuan Cui &lt;cuibixuan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tobin C. Harding &lt;tobin@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bixuan Cui &lt;cuibixuan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623184515.4132564-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Percpu memory is becoming more and more widely used by various subsystems,
and the total amount of memory controlled by the percpu allocator can make
a good part of the total memory.

As an example, bpf maps can consume a lot of percpu memory, and they are
created by a user.  Also, some cgroup internals (e.g.  memory controller
statistics) can be quite large.  On a machine with many CPUs and big
number of cgroups they can consume hundreds of megabytes.

So the lack of memcg accounting is creating a breach in the memory
isolation.  Similar to the slab memory, percpu memory should be accounted
by default.

To implement the perpcu accounting it's possible to take the slab memory
accounting as a model to follow.  Let's introduce two types of percpu
chunks: root and memcg.  What makes memcg chunks different is an
additional space allocated to store memcg membership information.  If
__GFP_ACCOUNT is passed on allocation, a memcg chunk should be be used.
If it's possible to charge the corresponding size to the target memory
cgroup, allocation is performed, and the memcg ownership data is recorded.
System-wide allocations are performed using root chunks, so there is no
additional memory overhead.

To implement a fast reparenting of percpu memory on memcg removal, we
don't store mem_cgroup pointers directly: instead we use obj_cgroup API,
introduced for slab accounting.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n build errors and warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move unreachable code, per Roman]
[cuibixuan@huawei.com: mm/percpu: fix 'defined but not used' warning]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d41b939-a741-b521-a7a2-e7296ec16219@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bixuan Cui &lt;cuibixuan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tobin C. Harding &lt;tobin@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bixuan Cui &lt;cuibixuan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623184515.4132564-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>percpu: convert chunk hints to be based on pcpu_block_md</title>
<updated>2019-03-13T19:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou</name>
<email>dennis@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-26T18:00:08+00:00</published>
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As mentioned in the last patch, a chunk's hints are no different than a
block just responsible for more bits. This converts chunk level hints to
use a pcpu_block_md to maintain them. This lets us reuse the same hint
helper functions as a block. The left_free and right_free are unused by
the chunk's pcpu_block_md.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
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As mentioned in the last patch, a chunk's hints are no different than a
block just responsible for more bits. This converts chunk level hints to
use a pcpu_block_md to maintain them. This lets us reuse the same hint
helper functions as a block. The left_free and right_free are unused by
the chunk's pcpu_block_md.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: make pcpu_block_md generic</title>
<updated>2019-03-13T19:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou</name>
<email>dennis@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-26T17:56:16+00:00</published>
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In reality, a chunk is just a block covering a larger number of bits.
The hints themselves are one in the same. Rather than maintaining the
hints separately, first introduce nr_bits to genericize
pcpu_block_update() to correctly maintain block-&gt;right_free. The next
patch will convert chunk hints to be managed as a pcpu_block_md.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
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In reality, a chunk is just a block covering a larger number of bits.
The hints themselves are one in the same. Rather than maintaining the
hints separately, first introduce nr_bits to genericize
pcpu_block_update() to correctly maintain block-&gt;right_free. The next
patch will convert chunk hints to be managed as a pcpu_block_md.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: add block level scan_hint</title>
<updated>2019-03-13T19:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou</name>
<email>dennis@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-25T21:41:45+00:00</published>
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Fragmentation can cause both blocks and chunks to have an early
first_firee bit available, but only able to satisfy allocations much
later on. This patch introduces a scan_hint to help mitigate some
unnecessary scanning.

The scan_hint remembers the largest area prior to the contig_hint. If
the contig_hint == scan_hint, then scan_hint_start &gt; contig_hint_start.
This is necessary for scan_hint discovery when refreshing a block.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
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Fragmentation can cause both blocks and chunks to have an early
first_firee bit available, but only able to satisfy allocations much
later on. This patch introduces a scan_hint to help mitigate some
unnecessary scanning.

The scan_hint remembers the largest area prior to the contig_hint. If
the contig_hint == scan_hint, then scan_hint_start &gt; contig_hint_start.
This is necessary for scan_hint discovery when refreshing a block.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: skip chunks if the alloc does not fit in the contig hint</title>
<updated>2017-07-26T21:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou (Facebook)</name>
<email>dennisszhou@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T23:02:14+00:00</published>
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This patch adds chunk-&gt;contig_bits_start to keep track of the contig
hint's offset and the check to skip the chunk if it does not fit. If
the chunk's contig hint starting offset cannot satisfy an allocation,
the allocator assumes there is enough memory pressure in this chunk to
either use a different chunk or create a new one. This accepts a less
tight packing for a smoother latency curve.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch adds chunk-&gt;contig_bits_start to keep track of the contig
hint's offset and the check to skip the chunk if it does not fit. If
the chunk's contig hint starting offset cannot satisfy an allocation,
the allocator assumes there is enough memory pressure in this chunk to
either use a different chunk or create a new one. This accepts a less
tight packing for a smoother latency curve.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: add first_bit to keep track of the first free in the bitmap</title>
<updated>2017-07-26T21:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou (Facebook)</name>
<email>dennisszhou@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T23:02:13+00:00</published>
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This patch adds first_bit to keep track of the first free bit in the
bitmap. This hint helps prevent scanning of fully allocated blocks.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This patch adds first_bit to keep track of the first free bit in the
bitmap. This hint helps prevent scanning of fully allocated blocks.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks</title>
<updated>2017-07-26T21:41:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou (Facebook)</name>
<email>dennisszhou@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-24T23:02:12+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces the bitmap metadata blocks and adds the skeleton
of the code that will be used to maintain these blocks.  Each chunk's
bitmap is made up of full metadata blocks. These blocks maintain basic
metadata to help prevent scanning unnecssarily to update hints. Full
scanning methods are used for the skeleton and will be replaced in the
coming patches. A number of helper functions are added as well to do
conversion of pages to blocks and manage offsets. Comments will be
updated as the final version of each function is added.

There exists a relationship between PAGE_SIZE, PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE,
the region size, and unit_size. Every chunk's region (including offsets)
is page aligned at the beginning to preserve alignment. The end is
aligned to LCM(PAGE_SIZE, PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE) to ensure that the end
can fit with the populated page map which is by page and every metadata
block is fully accounted for. The unit_size is already page aligned, but
must also be aligned with PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE to ensure full metadata
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch introduces the bitmap metadata blocks and adds the skeleton
of the code that will be used to maintain these blocks.  Each chunk's
bitmap is made up of full metadata blocks. These blocks maintain basic
metadata to help prevent scanning unnecssarily to update hints. Full
scanning methods are used for the skeleton and will be replaced in the
coming patches. A number of helper functions are added as well to do
conversion of pages to blocks and manage offsets. Comments will be
updated as the final version of each function is added.

There exists a relationship between PAGE_SIZE, PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE,
the region size, and unit_size. Every chunk's region (including offsets)
is page aligned at the beginning to preserve alignment. The end is
aligned to LCM(PAGE_SIZE, PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE) to ensure that the end
can fit with the populated page map which is by page and every metadata
block is fully accounted for. The unit_size is already page aligned, but
must also be aligned with PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE to ensure full metadata
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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