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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug, branch v4.15</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2017-02-22T18:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-22T18:20:04+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

 - New entropy generation for the pseudo random number generator.

 - Early boot printk output via sclp to help debug crashes on boot. This
   needs to be enabled with a kernel parameter.

 - Add proper no-execute support with a bit in the page table entry.

 - Bug fixes and cleanups.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (65 commits)
  s390/syscall: fix single stepped system calls
  s390/zcrypt: make ap_bus explicitly non-modular
  s390/zcrypt: Removed unneeded debug feature directory creation.
  s390: add missing "do {} while (0)" loop constructs to multiline macros
  s390/mm: add cond_resched call to kernel page table dumper
  s390: get rid of MACHINE_HAS_PFMF and MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE
  s390/mm: make memory_block_size_bytes available for !MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  s390: replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  s390: Audit and remove any remaining unnecessary uses of module.h
  s390: mm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  s390: kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"
  s390: add no-execute support
  s390: report new vector facilities
  s390: use correct input data address for setup_randomness
  s390/sclp: get rid of common response code handling
  s390/sclp: don't add new lines to each printed string
  s390/sclp: make early sclp code readable
  s390/sclp: disable early sclp code as soon as the base sclp driver is active
  s390/sclp: move early printk code to drivers
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

 - New entropy generation for the pseudo random number generator.

 - Early boot printk output via sclp to help debug crashes on boot. This
   needs to be enabled with a kernel parameter.

 - Add proper no-execute support with a bit in the page table entry.

 - Bug fixes and cleanups.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (65 commits)
  s390/syscall: fix single stepped system calls
  s390/zcrypt: make ap_bus explicitly non-modular
  s390/zcrypt: Removed unneeded debug feature directory creation.
  s390: add missing "do {} while (0)" loop constructs to multiline macros
  s390/mm: add cond_resched call to kernel page table dumper
  s390: get rid of MACHINE_HAS_PFMF and MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE
  s390/mm: make memory_block_size_bytes available for !MEMORY_HOTPLUG
  s390: replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE
  s390: Audit and remove any remaining unnecessary uses of module.h
  s390: mm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  s390: kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h
  s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE"
  s390: add no-execute support
  s390: report new vector facilities
  s390: use correct input data address for setup_randomness
  s390/sclp: get rid of common response code handling
  s390/sclp: don't add new lines to each printed string
  s390/sclp: make early sclp code readable
  s390/sclp: disable early sclp code as soon as the base sclp driver is active
  s390/sclp: move early printk code to drivers
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Move CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX to be common</title>
<updated>2017-02-07T20:32:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>labbott@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-07T00:31:57+00:00</published>
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There are multiple architectures that support CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and
CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX. These options also now have the ability to be
turned off at runtime. Move these to an architecture independent
location and make these options def_bool y for almost all of those
arches.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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There are multiple architectures that support CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and
CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX. These options also now have the ability to be
turned off at runtime. Move these to an architecture independent
location and make these options def_bool y for almost all of those
arches.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: provide sclp based boot console</title>
<updated>2017-01-16T06:27:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-11T08:14:52+00:00</published>
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Use the early sclp code to provide a boot console. This boot console
is available if the kernel parameter "earlyprintk" has been specified,
just like it works for other architectures that also provide an early
boot console.

This makes debugging of early problems much easier, since now we
finally have working console output even before memory detection is
running.

The boot console will be automatically disabled as soon as another
console will be registered.

Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Use the early sclp code to provide a boot console. This boot console
is available if the kernel parameter "earlyprintk" has been specified,
just like it works for other architectures that also provide an early
boot console.

This makes debugging of early problems much easier, since now we
finally have working console output even before memory detection is
running.

The boot console will be automatically disabled as soon as another
console will be registered.

Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: consolidate CONFIG_STRICT_DEVM in lib/Kconfig.debug</title>
<updated>2016-01-09T14:30:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-20T02:19:29+00:00</published>
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Let all the archs that implement devmem_is_allowed() opt-in to a common
definition of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVM in lib/Kconfig.debug.

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
[heiko: drop 'default y' for s390]
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Let all the archs that implement devmem_is_allowed() opt-in to a common
definition of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVM in lib/Kconfig.debug.

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
[heiko: drop 'default y' for s390]
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:28:42+00:00</published>
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The help text for this config is duplicated across the x86, parisc, and
s390 Kconfig.debug files.  Arnd Bergman noted that the help text was
slightly misleading and should be fixed to state that enabling this
option isn't a problem when using pre 4.4 gcc.

To simplify the rewording, consolidate the text into lib/Kconfig.debug
and modify it there to be more explicit about when you should say N to
this config.

Also, make the text a bit more generic by stating that this option
enables compile time checks so we can cover architectures which emit
warnings vs.  ones which emit errors.  The details of how an
architecture decided to implement the checks isn't as important as the
concept of compile time checking of copy_from_user() calls.

While we're doing this, remove all the copy_from_user_overflow() code
that's duplicated many times and place it into lib/ so that any
architecture supporting this option can get the function for free.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.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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The help text for this config is duplicated across the x86, parisc, and
s390 Kconfig.debug files.  Arnd Bergman noted that the help text was
slightly misleading and should be fixed to state that enabling this
option isn't a problem when using pre 4.4 gcc.

To simplify the rewording, consolidate the text into lib/Kconfig.debug
and modify it there to be more explicit about when you should say N to
this config.

Also, make the text a bit more generic by stating that this option
enables compile time checks so we can cover architectures which emit
warnings vs.  ones which emit errors.  The details of how an
architecture decided to implement the checks isn't as important as the
concept of compile time checking of copy_from_user() calls.

While we're doing this, remove all the copy_from_user_overflow() code
that's duplicated many times and place it into lib/ so that any
architecture supporting this option can get the function for free.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.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>
<entry>
<title>s390/mm: add page table dumper</title>
<updated>2012-10-09T12:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-04T12:46:12+00:00</published>
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This is more or less the same as the x86 page table dumper which was
merged four years ago: 926e5392 "x86: add code to dump the (kernel)
page tables for visual inspection by kernel developers".

We add a file at /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables for debugging
purposes so it's quite easy to see the kernel page table layout and
possible odd mappings:

---[ Identity Mapping ]---
0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000100000        1M PTE RW
---[ Kernel Image Start ]---
0x0000000000100000-0x0000000000800000        7M PMD RO
0x0000000000800000-0x00000000008a9000      676K PTE RO
0x00000000008a9000-0x0000000000900000      348K PTE RW
0x0000000000900000-0x0000000001500000       12M PMD RW
---[ Kernel Image End ]---
0x0000000001500000-0x0000000280000000    10219M PMD RW
0x0000000280000000-0x000003d280000000     3904G PUD I
---[ vmemmap Area ]---
0x000003d280000000-0x000003d288c00000      140M PTE RW
0x000003d288c00000-0x000003d300000000     1908M PMD I
0x000003d300000000-0x000003e000000000       52G PUD I
---[ vmalloc Area ]---
0x000003e000000000-0x000003e000009000       36K PTE RW
0x000003e000009000-0x000003e0000ee000      916K PTE I
0x000003e0000ee000-0x000003e000146000      352K PTE RW
0x000003e000146000-0x000003e000200000      744K PTE I
0x000003e000200000-0x000003e080000000     2046M PMD I
0x000003e080000000-0x0000040000000000      126G PUD I

This usually makes only sense for kernel developers. The output
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not very helpful, because of the
huge number of mapped out pages, however I decided for the time
being to not add a !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC dependency.
Maybe it's helpful for somebody even with that option.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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This is more or less the same as the x86 page table dumper which was
merged four years ago: 926e5392 "x86: add code to dump the (kernel)
page tables for visual inspection by kernel developers".

We add a file at /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables for debugging
purposes so it's quite easy to see the kernel page table layout and
possible odd mappings:

---[ Identity Mapping ]---
0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000100000        1M PTE RW
---[ Kernel Image Start ]---
0x0000000000100000-0x0000000000800000        7M PMD RO
0x0000000000800000-0x00000000008a9000      676K PTE RO
0x00000000008a9000-0x0000000000900000      348K PTE RW
0x0000000000900000-0x0000000001500000       12M PMD RW
---[ Kernel Image End ]---
0x0000000001500000-0x0000000280000000    10219M PMD RW
0x0000000280000000-0x000003d280000000     3904G PUD I
---[ vmemmap Area ]---
0x000003d280000000-0x000003d288c00000      140M PTE RW
0x000003d288c00000-0x000003d300000000     1908M PMD I
0x000003d300000000-0x000003e000000000       52G PUD I
---[ vmalloc Area ]---
0x000003e000000000-0x000003e000009000       36K PTE RW
0x000003e000009000-0x000003e0000ee000      916K PTE I
0x000003e0000ee000-0x000003e000146000      352K PTE RW
0x000003e000146000-0x000003e000200000      744K PTE I
0x000003e000200000-0x000003e080000000     2046M PMD I
0x000003e080000000-0x0000040000000000      126G PUD I

This usually makes only sense for kernel developers. The output
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not very helpful, because of the
huge number of mapped out pages, however I decided for the time
being to not add a !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC dependency.
Maybe it's helpful for somebody even with that option.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[S390] Write protect module text and RO data</title>
<updated>2011-03-15T16:08:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Glauber</name>
<email>jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-15T16:08:22+00:00</published>
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Implement write protection for kernel modules text and read-only
data sections by implementing set_memory_[ro|rw] on s390.
Since s390 has no execute bit in the pte's NX is not supported.

set_memory_[ro|rw] will only work on normal pages and not on
large pages, so in case a large page should be modified bail
out with a warning.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber &lt;jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Implement write protection for kernel modules text and read-only
data sections by implementing set_memory_[ro|rw] on s390.
Since s390 has no execute bit in the pte's NX is not supported.

set_memory_[ro|rw] will only work on normal pages and not on
large pages, so in case a large page should be modified bail
out with a warning.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber &lt;jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[S390] cleanup s390 Kconfig</title>
<updated>2011-01-05T11:47:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-05T11:47:15+00:00</published>
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Make use of def_bool and def_tristate where possible and add sensible
defaults to the config symbols where applicable. This shortens the
defconfig file by another ~40 lines.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Make use of def_bool and def_tristate where possible and add sensible
defaults to the config symbols where applicable. This shortens the
defconfig file by another ~40 lines.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[S390] mm: add devmem_is_allowed() for STRICT_DEVMEM checking</title>
<updated>2010-11-10T09:05:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hendrik Brueckner</name>
<email>brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-10T09:05:55+00:00</published>
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Provide the devmem_is_allowed() routine to restrict access to
kernel memory from userspace.
Set the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM config option to switch on checking.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Provide the devmem_is_allowed() routine to restrict access to
kernel memory from userspace.
Set the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM config option to switch on checking.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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