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<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
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<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</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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<title>sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t =&gt; wait_queue_entry_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T10:06:13Z</published>
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Kill indirect include of file.h from eventfd.h, use fdget() in cgroup.c</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T23:54:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-30T16:29:49Z</published>
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kernel/cgroup.c is the only place in the tree that relies on eventfd.h
pulling file.h; move that include there.  Switch from eventfd_fget()/fput()
to fdget()/fdput(), while we are at it - eventfd_ctx_fileget() will fail
on non-eventfd descriptors just fine, no need to do that check twice...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>include/linux/eventfd.h: fix incorrect filename is a comment</title>
<updated>2013-02-28T03:10:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Sustrik</name>
<email>sustrik@250bpm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T01:05:42Z</published>
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Comment in eventfd.h referred to 'include/asm-generic/fcntl.h'
while the correct path is 'include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h'.

Signed-off-by: Martin Sustrik &lt;sustrik@250bpm.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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<title>eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal()</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T00:49:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sha Zhengju</name>
<email>handai.szj@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-31T23:26:41Z</published>
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eventfd_ctx-&gt;count is an __u64 counter which is allowed to reach
ULLONG_MAX.  eventfd_write() adds a __u64 value to "count", but the kernel
side eventfd_signal() only adds an int value to it.  Make them consistent.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update interface documentation]
Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju &lt;handai.szj@taobao.com&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.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>
<title>eventfd - allow atomic read and waitqueue remove</title>
<updated>2010-01-25T14:26:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Libenzi</name>
<email>davidel@xmailserver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-13T17:34:36Z</published>
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KVM needs a wait to atomically remove themselves from the eventfd -&gt;poll()
wait queue head, in order to handle correctly their IRQfd deassign
operation.

This patch introduces such API, plus a way to read an eventfd from its
context.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>anonfd: split interface into file creation and install</title>
<updated>2009-09-23T14:39:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Libenzi</name>
<email>davidel@xmailserver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T23:43:57Z</published>
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Split the anonfd interface into a bare file pointer creation one, and a
file pointer creation plus install one.

There are cases, like the usage of eventfds inside other kernel
interfaces, where the file pointer created by anonfd needs to be used
inside the initialization of other structures.

As it is right now, as soon as anon_inode_getfd() returns, the kenrle can
race with userspace closing the newly installed file descriptor.

This patch, while keeping the old anon_inode_getfd(), introduces a new
anon_inode_getfile() (whose services are reused in anon_inode_getfd())
that allows to split the file creation phase and the fd install one.

Once all the kernel structures are initialized, the code can call the
proper fd_install().

Gregory manifested the need for something like this inside KVM.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Gregory Haskins &lt;ghaskins@novell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.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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<entry>
<title>eventfd: revised interface and cleanups</title>
<updated>2009-07-01T01:55:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Libenzi</name>
<email>davidel@xmailserver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-30T18:41:11Z</published>
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Change the eventfd interface to de-couple the eventfd memory context, from
the file pointer instance.

Without such change, there is no clean way to racely free handle the
POLLHUP event sent when the last instance of the file* goes away.  Also,
now the internal eventfd APIs are using the eventfd context instead of the
file*.

This patch is required by KVM's IRQfd code, which is still under
development.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Gregory Haskins &lt;ghaskins@novell.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise &lt;bcrl@kvack.org&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.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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<title>eventfd: improve support for semaphore-like behavior</title>
<updated>2009-04-01T15:59:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Libenzi</name>
<email>davidel@xmailserver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-31T22:24:18Z</published>
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People started using eventfd in a semaphore-like way where before they
were using pipes.

That is, counter-based resource access.  Where a "wait()" returns
immediately by decrementing the counter by one, if counter is greater than
zero.  Otherwise will wait.  And where a "post(count)" will add count to
the counter releasing the appropriate amount of waiters.  If eventfd the
"post" (write) part is fine, while the "wait" (read) does not dequeue 1,
but the whole counter value.

The problem with eventfd is that a read() on the fd returns and wipes the
whole counter, making the use of it as semaphore a little bit more
cumbersome.  You can do a read() followed by a write() of COUNTER-1, but
IMO it's pretty easy and cheap to make this work w/out extra steps.  This
patch introduces a new eventfd flag that tells eventfd to only dequeue 1
from the counter, allowing simple read/write to make it behave like a
semaphore.  Simple test here:

http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-sem.c

To be back-compatible with earlier kernels, userspace applications should
probe for the availability of this feature via

#ifdef EFD_SEMAPHORE
	fd = eventfd2 (CNT, EFD_SEMAPHORE);
	if (fd == -1 &amp;&amp; errno == EINVAL)
		&lt;fallback&gt;
#else
		&lt;fallback&gt;
#endif

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-api@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ulrich Drepper &lt;drepper@redhat.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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<title>flag parameters: NONBLOCK in eventfd</title>
<updated>2008-07-24T17:47:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ulrich Drepper</name>
<email>drepper@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-24T04:29:38Z</published>
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This patch adds support for the EFD_NONBLOCK flag to eventfd2.  The
additional changes needed are minimal.

The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;

#ifndef __NR_eventfd2
# ifdef __x86_64__
#  define __NR_eventfd2 290
# elif defined __i386__
#  define __NR_eventfd2 328
# else
#  error "need __NR_eventfd2"
# endif
#endif

#define EFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK

int
main (void)
{
  int fd = syscall (__NR_eventfd2, 1, 0);
  if (fd == -1)
    {
      puts ("eventfd2(0) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  int fl = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL);
  if (fl == -1)
    {
      puts ("fcntl failed");
      return 1;
    }
  if (fl &amp; O_NONBLOCK)
    {
      puts ("eventfd2(0) sets non-blocking mode");
      return 1;
    }
  close (fd);

  fd = syscall (__NR_eventfd2, 1, EFD_NONBLOCK);
  if (fd == -1)
    {
      puts ("eventfd2(EFD_NONBLOCK) failed");
      return 1;
    }
  fl = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL);
  if (fl == -1)
    {
      puts ("fcntl failed");
      return 1;
    }
  if ((fl &amp; O_NONBLOCK) == 0)
    {
      puts ("eventfd2(EFD_NONBLOCK) does not set non-blocking mode");
      return 1;
    }
  close (fd);

  puts ("OK");

  return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper &lt;drepper@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@googlemail.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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