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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/delay.h, branch v6.16-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>timers: Adjust flseep() to reflect reality</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T22:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna-Maria Behnsen</name>
<email>anna-maria@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-14T08:22:24+00:00</published>
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fsleep() simply implements the recommendations of the outdated
documentation in "Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst". This should be a
user friendly interface to choose always the best timeout function
approach:

- udelay() for very short sleep durations shorter than 10 microseconds
- usleep_range() for sleep durations until 20 milliseconds
- msleep() for the others

The actual implementation has several problems:

- It does not take into account that HZ resolution also has an impact on
  granularity of jiffies and has also an impact on the granularity of the
  buckets of timer wheel levels. This means that accuracy for the timeout
  does not have an upper limit. When executing fsleep(20000) on a HZ=100
  system, the possible additional slack will be 50% as the granularity of
  the buckets in the lowest level is 10 milliseconds.

- The upper limit of usleep_range() is twice the requested timeout. When no
  other interrupts occur in this range, the maximum value is used. This
  means that the requested sleep length has then an additional delay of
  100%.

Change the thresholds for the decisions in fsleep() to make sure the
maximum slack which is added to the sleep duration is 25%.

Note: Outdated documentation will be updated in a followup patch.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-7-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de

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<pre>
fsleep() simply implements the recommendations of the outdated
documentation in "Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst". This should be a
user friendly interface to choose always the best timeout function
approach:

- udelay() for very short sleep durations shorter than 10 microseconds
- usleep_range() for sleep durations until 20 milliseconds
- msleep() for the others

The actual implementation has several problems:

- It does not take into account that HZ resolution also has an impact on
  granularity of jiffies and has also an impact on the granularity of the
  buckets of timer wheel levels. This means that accuracy for the timeout
  does not have an upper limit. When executing fsleep(20000) on a HZ=100
  system, the possible additional slack will be 50% as the granularity of
  the buckets in the lowest level is 10 milliseconds.

- The upper limit of usleep_range() is twice the requested timeout. When no
  other interrupts occur in this range, the maximum value is used. This
  means that the requested sleep length has then an additional delay of
  100%.

Change the thresholds for the decisions in fsleep() to make sure the
maximum slack which is added to the sleep duration is 25%.

Note: Outdated documentation will be updated in a followup patch.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-7-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: Update function descriptions of sleep/delay related functions</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T22:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna-Maria Behnsen</name>
<email>anna-maria@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-14T08:22:22+00:00</published>
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A lot of commonly used functions for inserting a sleep or delay lack a
proper function description. Add function descriptions to all of them to
have important information in a central place close to the code.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-5-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de

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A lot of commonly used functions for inserting a sleep or delay lack a
proper function description. Add function descriptions to all of them to
have important information in a central place close to the code.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-5-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: Rename usleep_idle_range() to usleep_range_idle()</title>
<updated>2024-10-15T22:36:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna-Maria Behnsen</name>
<email>anna-maria@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-14T08:22:21+00:00</published>
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usleep_idle_range() is a variant of usleep_range(). Both are using
usleep_range_state() as a base. To be able to find all the related
functions in one go, rename it usleep_idle_range() to usleep_range_idle().

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-4-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de

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<pre>
usleep_idle_range() is a variant of usleep_range(). Both are using
usleep_range_state() as a base. To be able to find all the related
functions in one go, rename it usleep_idle_range() to usleep_range_idle().

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-4-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: consolidate prototypes in linux/init.h</title>
<updated>2023-06-10T00:44:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-17T13:10:59+00:00</published>
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The init/main.c file contains some extern declarations for functions
defined in architecture code, and it defines some other functions that are
called from architecture code with a custom prototype.  Both of those
result in warnings with 'make W=1':

init/calibrate.c:261:37: error: no previous prototype for 'calibrate_delay_is_known' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/main.c:790:20: error: no previous prototype for 'mem_encrypt_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/main.c:792:20: error: no previous prototype for 'poking_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c:122:13: error: no previous prototype for 'init_IRQ' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:55:13: error: no previous prototype for 'time_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/x86/kernel/process.c:935:13: error: no previous prototype for 'arch_post_acpi_subsys_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/calibrate.c:261:37: error: no previous prototype for 'calibrate_delay_is_known' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/fork.c:991:20: error: no previous prototype for 'arch_task_cache_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Add prototypes for all of these in include/linux/init.h or another
appropriate header, and remove the duplicate declarations from
architecture specific code.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: declare time_init_early()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519124311.5167221c@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517131102.934196-12-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The init/main.c file contains some extern declarations for functions
defined in architecture code, and it defines some other functions that are
called from architecture code with a custom prototype.  Both of those
result in warnings with 'make W=1':

init/calibrate.c:261:37: error: no previous prototype for 'calibrate_delay_is_known' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/main.c:790:20: error: no previous prototype for 'mem_encrypt_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/main.c:792:20: error: no previous prototype for 'poking_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c:122:13: error: no previous prototype for 'init_IRQ' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:55:13: error: no previous prototype for 'time_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/x86/kernel/process.c:935:13: error: no previous prototype for 'arch_post_acpi_subsys_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
init/calibrate.c:261:37: error: no previous prototype for 'calibrate_delay_is_known' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
kernel/fork.c:991:20: error: no previous prototype for 'arch_task_cache_init' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Add prototypes for all of these in include/linux/init.h or another
appropriate header, and remove the duplicate declarations from
architecture specific code.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: declare time_init_early()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519124311.5167221c@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230517131102.934196-12-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: implement usleep_idle_range()</title>
<updated>2021-12-11T01:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SeongJae Park</name>
<email>sj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-10T22:46:22+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm/damon: Fix fake /proc/loadavg reports", v3.

This patchset fixes DAMON's fake load report issue.  The first patch
makes yet another variant of usleep_range() for this fix, and the second
patch fixes the issue of DAMON by making it using the newly introduced
function.

This patch (of 2):

Some kernel threads such as DAMON could need to repeatedly sleep in
micro seconds level.  Because usleep_range() sleeps in uninterruptible
state, however, such threads would make /proc/loadavg reports fake load.

To help such cases, this commit implements a variant of usleep_range()
called usleep_idle_range().  It is same to usleep_range() but sets the
state of the current task as TASK_IDLE while sleeping.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211126145015.15862-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211126145015.15862-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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Patch series "mm/damon: Fix fake /proc/loadavg reports", v3.

This patchset fixes DAMON's fake load report issue.  The first patch
makes yet another variant of usleep_range() for this fix, and the second
patch fixes the issue of DAMON by making it using the newly introduced
function.

This patch (of 2):

Some kernel threads such as DAMON could need to repeatedly sleep in
micro seconds level.  Because usleep_range() sleeps in uninterruptible
state, however, such threads would make /proc/loadavg reports fake load.

To help such cases, this commit implements a variant of usleep_range()
called usleep_idle_range().  It is same to usleep_range() but sets the
state of the current task as TASK_IDLE while sleeping.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211126145015.15862-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211126145015.15862-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include/linux/delay.h: replace kernel.h with the necessary inclusions</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T18:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-09T02:32:32+00:00</published>
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When kernel.h is used in the headers it adds a lot into dependency hell,
especially when there are circular dependencies are involved.

Replace kernel.h inclusion with the list of what is really being used.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cxd2880_common.h needs bits.h for GENMASK()]
[andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: delay.h: fix for removed kernel.h]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211028170143.56523-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include/linux/fwnode.h needs bits.h for BIT()]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027150324.79827-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.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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<pre>
When kernel.h is used in the headers it adds a lot into dependency hell,
especially when there are circular dependencies are involved.

Replace kernel.h inclusion with the list of what is really being used.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cxd2880_common.h needs bits.h for GENMASK()]
[andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: delay.h: fix for removed kernel.h]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211028170143.56523-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include/linux/fwnode.h needs bits.h for BIT()]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027150324.79827-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include/: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones</title>
<updated>2020-08-12T17:57:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander A. Klimov</name>
<email>grandmaster@al2klimov.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:34:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=7f317d34906c1033f0752fc137dda04e43979bb8'/>
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<content type='text'>
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov &lt;grandmaster@al2klimov.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200726110117.16346-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov &lt;grandmaster@al2klimov.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200726110117.16346-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timer: add fsleep for flexible sleeping</title>
<updated>2020-05-07T00:03:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiner Kallweit</name>
<email>hkallweit1@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-01T21:27:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=c6af13d334759c33c14b6fad4c676c6d1dbf9564'/>
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Sleeping for a certain amount of time requires use of different
functions, depending on the time period.
Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst explains when to use which
function, and also checkpatch checks for some potentially
problematic cases.

So let's create a helper that automatically chooses the appropriate
sleep function -&gt; fsleep(), for flexible sleeping

If the delay is a constant, then the compiler should be able to ensure
that the new helper doesn't create overhead. If the delay is not
constant, then the new helper can save some code.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Sleeping for a certain amount of time requires use of different
functions, depending on the time period.
Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst explains when to use which
function, and also checkpatch checks for some potentially
problematic cases.

So let's create a helper that automatically chooses the appropriate
sleep function -&gt; fsleep(), for flexible sleeping

If the delay is a constant, then the compiler should be able to ensure
that the new helper doesn't create overhead. If the delay is not
constant, then the new helper can save some code.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>init/calibrate.c: provide proper prototype</title>
<updated>2019-03-08T02:32:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valdis Kletnieks</name>
<email>valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-08T00:29:06+00:00</published>
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Sparse issues a warning:

    CHECK   init/calibrate.c
  init/calibrate.c:271:28: warning: symbol 'calibration_delay_done' was not declared. Should it be static?

The actual issue is that it's a __weak symbol that archs can override
(in fact, ARM does so), but no prototype is provided.  Let's provide one
to prevent surprises.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/18827.1548750938@turing-police.cc.vt.edu
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&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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Sparse issues a warning:

    CHECK   init/calibrate.c
  init/calibrate.c:271:28: warning: symbol 'calibration_delay_done' was not declared. Should it be static?

The actual issue is that it's a __weak symbol that archs can override
(in fact, ARM does so), but no prototype is provided.  Let's provide one
to prevent surprises.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/18827.1548750938@turing-police.cc.vt.edu
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&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>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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