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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/tile, branch v3.10.41</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>tile: remove compat_sys_lookup_dcookie declaration to fix compile error</title>
<updated>2014-02-13T21:48:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T06:50:36+00:00</published>
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commit 5a5e75f4714a592f31e57f248b8f5c866f278b8d upstream.

With commit d8d14bd09cdd ("fs/compat: fix lookup_dcookie() parameter
handling") I changed the type of the len parameter of the
lookup_dcookie() syscall.

However I missed that there was still a stale declaration in
arch/tile/..  which now causes a compile error on tile:

  In file included from fs/dcookies.c:28:0:
  include/linux/compat.h:425:17: error: conflicting types for 'compat_sys_lookup_dcookie'
  fs/dcookies.c:207:1: error: conflicting types for 'compat_sys_lookup_dcookie'

Simply remove the declaration in the tile architecture, which is only a
leftover from before the different compat lookup_dcookie() versions have
been merged.  The correct declaration is now in include/linux/compat.h

The build error was reported by Fenguang's build bot.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5a5e75f4714a592f31e57f248b8f5c866f278b8d upstream.

With commit d8d14bd09cdd ("fs/compat: fix lookup_dcookie() parameter
handling") I changed the type of the len parameter of the
lookup_dcookie() syscall.

However I missed that there was still a stale declaration in
arch/tile/..  which now causes a compile error on tile:

  In file included from fs/dcookies.c:28:0:
  include/linux/compat.h:425:17: error: conflicting types for 'compat_sys_lookup_dcookie'
  fs/dcookies.c:207:1: error: conflicting types for 'compat_sys_lookup_dcookie'

Simply remove the declaration in the tile architecture, which is only a
leftover from before the different compat lookup_dcookie() versions have
been merged.  The correct declaration is now in include/linux/compat.h

The build error was reported by Fenguang's build bot.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in CONFIG_PREEMPT</title>
<updated>2013-10-13T23:08:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-26T17:24:53+00:00</published>
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commit f862eefec0b68e099a9fa58d3761ffb10bad97e1 upstream.

It turns out the kernel relies on barrier() to force a reload of the
percpu offset value.  Since we can't easily modify the definition of
barrier() to include "tp" as an output register, we instead provide a
definition of __my_cpu_offset as extended assembly that includes a fake
stack read to hazard against barrier(), forcing gcc to know that it
must reread "tp" and recompute anything based on "tp" after a barrier.

This fixes observed hangs in the slub allocator when we are looping
on a percpu cmpxchg_double.

A similar fix for ARMv7 was made in June in change 509eb76ebf97.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f862eefec0b68e099a9fa58d3761ffb10bad97e1 upstream.

It turns out the kernel relies on barrier() to force a reload of the
percpu offset value.  Since we can't easily modify the definition of
barrier() to include "tp" as an output register, we instead provide a
definition of __my_cpu_offset as extended assembly that includes a fake
stack read to hazard against barrier(), forcing gcc to know that it
must reread "tp" and recompute anything based on "tp" after a barrier.

This fixes observed hangs in the slub allocator when we are looping
on a percpu cmpxchg_double.

A similar fix for ARMv7 was made in June in change 509eb76ebf97.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tilepro: work around module link error with gcc 4.7</title>
<updated>2013-06-15T20:47:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-15T20:47:47+00:00</published>
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gcc 4.7.x is emitting calls to __ffsdi2 where previously
it used to inline the appropriate ctz instructions.
While this needs to be fixed in gcc, it's also easy to avoid
having it cause build failures when building with those
compilers by exporting __ffsdi2 to modules.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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gcc 4.7.x is emitting calls to __ffsdi2 where previously
it used to inline the appropriate ctz instructions.
While this needs to be fixed in gcc, it's also easy to avoid
having it cause build failures when building with those
compilers by exporting __ffsdi2 to modules.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2013-05-09T21:34:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-09T21:34:58+00:00</published>
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Pull tile update from Chris Metcalf:
 "The interesting bug fix is support for the upcoming "4.2" release of
  the Tilera hypervisor, which by default launches Linux at privilege
  level 2 instead of 1.  The fix lets new and old hypervisors and
  Linuxes interoperate more smoothly, so I've tagged it for
  stable@kernel.org so that older Linuxes will be able to boot under the
  newer hypervisor."

* 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  usb: tilegx: fix memleak when create hcd fail
  arch/tile: remove inline marking of EXPORT_SYMBOL functions
  rtc: rtc-tile: add missing platform_device_unregister() when module exit
  tile: support new Tilera hypervisor
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Pull tile update from Chris Metcalf:
 "The interesting bug fix is support for the upcoming "4.2" release of
  the Tilera hypervisor, which by default launches Linux at privilege
  level 2 instead of 1.  The fix lets new and old hypervisors and
  Linuxes interoperate more smoothly, so I've tagged it for
  stable@kernel.org so that older Linuxes will be able to boot under the
  newer hypervisor."

* 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  usb: tilegx: fix memleak when create hcd fail
  arch/tile: remove inline marking of EXPORT_SYMBOL functions
  rtc: rtc-tile: add missing platform_device_unregister() when module exit
  tile: support new Tilera hypervisor
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/tile: remove inline marking of EXPORT_SYMBOL functions</title>
<updated>2013-05-09T17:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Efremov</name>
<email>yefremov.denis@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-09T10:36:53+00:00</published>
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EXPORT_SYMBOL and inline directives are contradictory to each other.
The patch fixes this inconsistency.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;yefremov.denis@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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EXPORT_SYMBOL and inline directives are contradictory to each other.
The patch fixes this inconsistency.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;yefremov.denis@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tile: support new Tilera hypervisor</title>
<updated>2013-05-02T20:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-02T19:29:04+00:00</published>
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The Tilera hypervisor shipped in releases up through MDE 4.1 launches
the client operating system (i.e. Linux) at privilege level 1 (PL1).
Starting with MDE 4.2, as part of the work to enable KVM, the
Tilera hypervisor launches Linux at PL2 instead.

This commit makes the KERNEL_PL option default to 2 for tilegx, while
still saying at 1 for tilepro, which doesn't have an updated hypervisor.
It also explains how and when you might want to choose another value.
In addition, we change a small buglet in the on-chip Ethernet driver,
where we were failing to use the KERNEL_PL constant in an API call.

To make the transition cleaner, this change also provides the updated
hv_init() API for the new hypervisor that supports announcing Linux's
compiled-in PL, so the hypervisor can generate a suitable error in the
case of a mismatched hypervisor and Linux binary.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.linux.org
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The Tilera hypervisor shipped in releases up through MDE 4.1 launches
the client operating system (i.e. Linux) at privilege level 1 (PL1).
Starting with MDE 4.2, as part of the work to enable KVM, the
Tilera hypervisor launches Linux at PL2 instead.

This commit makes the KERNEL_PL option default to 2 for tilegx, while
still saying at 1 for tilepro, which doesn't have an updated hypervisor.
It also explains how and when you might want to choose another value.
In addition, we change a small buglet in the on-chip Ethernet driver,
where we were failing to use the KERNEL_PL constant in an API call.

To make the transition cleaner, this change also provides the updated
hv_init() API for the new hypervisor that supports announcing Linux's
compiled-in PL, so the hypervisor can generate a suitable error in the
case of a mismatched hypervisor and Linux binary.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.linux.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-05-02T00:51:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-02T00:51:54+00:00</published>
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Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor-&gt;index to label things, not PDE-&gt;name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...
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Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor-&gt;index to label things, not PDE-&gt;name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T17:48:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-01T17:48:34+00:00</published>
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Pull tile arch changes from Chris Metcalf:
 "These are some minor new feature work and other changes that didn't
  merit getting pushed up after the 3.9 merge window closed.

  There should be a lot more activity in the 3.11 merge window"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: Fix syscall return value passed to tracepoint
  tile: comment assumption about __insn_mtspr for &lt;asm/irqflags.h&gt;
  tile: ns2cycles should use __raw_get_cpu_var
  arch: remove KCORE_ELF again [tile]
  tile: remove two outdated Kconfig entries
  tile: support atomic64_dec_if_positive()
  tile: support TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT; select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
  tile: Add definition of NR_syscalls
  tile: move declaration of sys_call_table to &lt;asm/syscall.h&gt;
  arch/tile: Enable HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
  arch/tile: Call tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in syscall trace
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Pull tile arch changes from Chris Metcalf:
 "These are some minor new feature work and other changes that didn't
  merit getting pushed up after the 3.9 merge window closed.

  There should be a lot more activity in the 3.11 merge window"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: Fix syscall return value passed to tracepoint
  tile: comment assumption about __insn_mtspr for &lt;asm/irqflags.h&gt;
  tile: ns2cycles should use __raw_get_cpu_var
  arch: remove KCORE_ELF again [tile]
  tile: remove two outdated Kconfig entries
  tile: support atomic64_dec_if_positive()
  tile: support TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT; select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
  tile: Add definition of NR_syscalls
  tile: move declaration of sys_call_table to &lt;asm/syscall.h&gt;
  arch/tile: Enable HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
  arch/tile: Call tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in syscall trace
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T14:21:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-01T14:21:43+00:00</published>
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Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
 "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
  with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
  rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
  get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
  make do_mremap() static
  sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
  ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
  x86: trim sys_ia32.h
  x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
  get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
  merge compat sys_ipc instances
  consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
  convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  make SYSCALL_DEFINE&lt;n&gt;-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
  make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
  consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
  teach SYSCALL_DEFINE&lt;n&gt; how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
  get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
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Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
 "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
  with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
  rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
  get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
  make do_mremap() static
  sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
  ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
  x86: trim sys_ia32.h
  x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
  get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
  merge compat sys_ipc instances
  consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
  convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  make SYSCALL_DEFINE&lt;n&gt;-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
  make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
  consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
  teach SYSCALL_DEFINE&lt;n&gt; how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
  get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
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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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