02 Nov, 2017
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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 & 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 >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
17 Sep, 2016
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We currently can hit a deadlock (of sorts) when trying to use flexfiles
layouts with XFS. XFS will call break_layout when something wants to
write to the file. In the case of the (super-simple) flexfiles layout
driver in knfsd, the MDS and DS are the same machine.The client can get a layout and then issue a v3 write to do its I/O. XFS
will then call xfs_break_layouts, which will cause a CB_LAYOUTRECALL to
be issued to the client. The client however can't return the layout
until the v3 WRITE completes, but XFS won't allow the write to proceed
until the layout is returned.Christoph says:
XFS only cares about block-like layouts where the client has direct
access to the file blocks. I'd need to look how to propagate the
flag into break_layout, but in principle we don't need to do any
recalls on truncate ever for file and flexfile layouts.If we're never going to recall the layout, then we don't even need to
set the lease at all. Just skip doing so on flexfiles layouts by
adding a new flag to struct nfsd4_layout_ops and skipping the lease
setting and removal when that flag is true.Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields
14 Jul, 2016
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Have a simple flex file server where the mds (NFSv4.1 or NFSv4.2)
is also the ds (NFSv3). I.e., the metadata and the data file are
the exact same file.This will allow testing of the flex file client.
Simply add the "pnfs" export option to your export
in /etc/exports and mount from a client that supports
flex files.Signed-off-by: Tom Haynes
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields
