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
19 May, 2015
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'xsave.header::xstate_bv' is a misnomer - what does 'bv' stand for?
It probably comes from the 'XGETBV' instruction name, but I could
not find in the Intel documentation where that abbreviation comes
from. It could mean 'bit vector' - or something else?But how about - instead of guessing about a weird name - we named
the field in an obvious and descriptive way that tells us exactly
what it does?So rename it to 'xfeatures', which is a bitmask of the
xfeatures that are fpstate_active in that context structure.Eyesore like:
fpu->state->xsave.xsave_hdr.xstate_bv |= XSTATE_FP;
is now much more readable:
fpu->state->xsave.header.xfeatures |= XSTATE_FP;
Which form is not just infinitely more readable, but is also
shorter as well.Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Fenghua Yu
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
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Code like:
fpu->state->xsave.xsave_hdr.xstate_bv |= XSTATE_FP;
is an eyesore, because not only is the words 'xsave' and 'state'
are repeated twice times (!), but also because of the 'hdr' and 'bv'
abbreviations that are pretty meaningless at a first glance.Start cleaning this up by renaming 'xsave_hdr' to 'header'.
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Fenghua Yu
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
03 Oct, 2012
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Convert #include "..." to #include in kernel system headers.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
Acked-by: Dave Jones
12 Feb, 2010
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Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the
core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc.This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets
supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure.Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state
is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is
in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence
we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or
the state is not saved in the memory layout.And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset
interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented
in the memory layout.First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate
mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0).The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the
core file, using the above mentioned memory layout.Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu
Cc: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
23 Oct, 2008
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
