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

    Greg Kroah-Hartman
     

25 Apr, 2017

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24 Nov, 2015

1 commit

  • As reported by Milian, currently for DWARF unwind (both libdw and
    libunwind) we display callchain in callee order only.

    Adding the support to follow callchain order setup to libdw DWARF
    unwinder, so we could get following output for report:

    $ perf record --call-graph dwarf ls
    ...

    $ perf report --no-children --stdio

    21.12% ls libc-2.21.so [.] __strcoll_l
    |
    ---__strcoll_l
    mpsort_with_tmp
    mpsort_with_tmp
    mpsort_with_tmp
    sort_files
    main
    __libc_start_main
    _start

    $ perf report --stdio --no-children -g caller

    21.12% ls libc-2.21.so [.] __strcoll_l
    |
    ---_start
    __libc_start_main
    main
    sort_files
    mpsort_with_tmp
    mpsort_with_tmp
    mpsort_with_tmp
    __strcoll_l

    Reported-and-Tested-by: Milian Wolff
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
    Tested-by: Wang Nan
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jan Kratochvil
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151119130119.GA26617@krava.brq.redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jiri Olsa
     

24 Feb, 2014

1 commit

  • Adding libdw DWARF post unwind support, which is part of
    elfutils-devel/libdw-dev package from version 0.158.

    The new code is contained in unwin-libdw.c object, and implements
    unwind__get_entries unwind interface function.

    New Makefile variable NO_LIBDW_DWARF_UNWIND was added to control its
    compilation, and is marked as disabled now. It's factored with the rest
    of the Makefile unwind build code in the next patch.

    Arch specific code was added for x86.

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Corey Ashford
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Jean Pihet
    Cc: Namhyung Kim
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392825179-5228-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Jiri Olsa