user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/lightnvm.h, branch v4.14.85

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

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 <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 Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lightnvm: allow to init targets on factory mode

2017-04-16T16:06:25Z

Target initialization has two responsibilities: creating the target partition and instantiating the target. This patch enables to create a factory partition (e.g., do not trigger recovery on the given target). This is useful for target development and for being able to restore the device state at any moment in time without requiring a full-device erase. Signed-off-by: Javier González Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: rename scrambler controller hint

2017-04-16T16:06:25Z

According to the OCSSD 1.2 specification, the 0x200 hint enables the media scrambler for the read/write opcode, providing that the controller has been correctly configured by the firmware. Rename the macro to represent this meaning. Signed-off-by: Javier González Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: submit erases using the I/O path

2017-04-16T16:06:25Z

Until now erases have been submitted as synchronous commands through a dedicated erase function. In order to enable targets implementing asynchronous erases, refactor the erase path so that it uses the normal async I/O submission functions. If a target requires sync I/O, it can implement it internally. Also, adapt rrpc to use the new erase path. Signed-off-by: Javier González Fixed spelling error. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: allow targets to use sysfs

2017-01-31T15:32:13Z

In order to register through the sysfs interface, a driver needs to know its kobject. On a disk structure, this happens when the partition information is added (device_add_disk), which for lightnvm takes place after the target has been initialized. This means that on target initialization, the kboject has not been created yet. This patch adds a target function to let targets initialize their own kboject as a child of the disk kobject. Signed-off-by: Javier González Added exit typedef and passed gendisk instead of void pointer for exit. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: Add CRC read error

2017-01-31T15:32:13Z

Let the host differentiate between a read error and a CRC check error on the device side. Signed-off-by: Javier González Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: use end_io callback instead of instance

2017-01-31T15:32:13Z

When the lightnvm core had the "gennvm" layer between the device and the target, there was a need for the core to be able to figure out which target it should send an end_io callback to. Leading to a "double" end_io, first for the media manager instance, and then for the target instance. Now that core and gennvm is merged, there is no longer a need for this, and a single end_io callback will do. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: reduce number of nvm_id groups to one

2017-01-31T15:32:13Z

The number of configuration groups has been limited to one in current code, even if there is support for up to four. With the introduction of the open-channel SSD 1.3 specification, only a single group is exposed onwards. Reflect this in the nvm_id structure. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: cleanup nvm transformation functions

2017-01-31T15:32:13Z

Going from target specific ppa addresses to device was accomplished by first converting target to generic ppa addresses and generic to device addresses. The conversion was either open-coded or used the built-in nvm_trans_* and nvm_map_* functions for conversion. Simplify the interface and cleanup the calls to provide clean functions that now either take a list of ppas or a nvm_rq, and is exposed through: void nvm_ppa_* - target to/from device with a list of PPAs, void nvm_rq_* - target to/from device with a nvm_rq. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

lightnvm: remove nvm_get_bb_tbl and nvm_set_bb_tbl

2017-01-31T15:32:13Z

Since the merge of gennvm and core, there is no longer a need for the device specific bad block functions. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe