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<title>mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T06:52:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2022-01-20T02:07:53Z</published>
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With NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK enabled, we need a function to
populate pte, this patch adds a generic pcpu populate pte function,
pcpu_populate_pte(), which is marked __weak and used on most
architectures, but it is overridden on x86, which has its own
implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-5-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.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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<title>mm: percpu: add generic pcpu_fc_alloc/free funciton</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T06:52:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2022-01-20T02:07:49Z</published>
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With the previous patch, we could add a generic pcpu first chunk
allocate and free function to cleanup the duplicated definations on each
architecture.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.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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<title>mm: percpu: add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t typedef</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T06:52:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T02:07:45Z</published>
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Add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t and pass it into pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t, pcpu
first chunk allocation will call it to alloc memblock on the
corresponding node by it, this is prepare for the next patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211216112359.103822-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.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>Merge tag 'printk-for-5.16-fixup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux</title>
<updated>2021-11-18T18:50:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-11-18T18:50:45Z</published>
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Pull printk fixes from Petr Mladek:

 - Try to flush backtraces from other CPUs also on the local one. This
   was a regression caused by printk_safe buffers removal.

 - Remove header dependency warning.

* tag 'printk-for-5.16-fixup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk: Remove printk.h inclusion in percpu.h
  printk: restore flushing of NMI buffers on remote CPUs after NMI backtraces
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<entry>
<title>printk: Remove printk.h inclusion in percpu.h</title>
<updated>2021-11-15T14:03:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-12T14:07:49Z</published>
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After the commit 42a0bb3f7138 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe
printk in NMI") the printk.h is not needed anymore in percpu.h.

Moreover `make headerdep` complains (an excerpt)

In file included from linux/printk.h,
                 from linux/dynamic_debug.h:188
                 from linux/printk.h:559 &lt;-- here
                 from linux/percpu.h:9
                 from linux/idr.h:17
include/net/9p/client.h:13: warning: recursive header inclusion

Yeah, it's not a root cause of this, but removing will help to reduce
the noise.

Fixes: 42a0bb3f7138 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112140749.80042-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>percpu: add __alloc_size attributes for better bounds checking</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T20:30:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T20:36:42Z</published>
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As already done in GrapheneOS, add the __alloc_size attribute for
appropriate percpu allocator interfaces, to provide additional hinting
for better bounds checking, assisting CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE and other
compiler optimizations.

Note that due to the implementation of the percpu API, this is unlikely
to ever actually provide compile-time checking beyond very simple
non-SMP builds.  But, since they are technically allocators, mark them
as such.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930222704.2631604-9-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray &lt;dwaipayanray1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Bounine &lt;alex.bou9@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jing Xiangfeng &lt;jingxiangfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Porter &lt;mporter@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Souptick Joarder &lt;jrdr.linux@gmail.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>percpu: Make pcpu_setup_first_chunk() void function</title>
<updated>2019-07-04T15:05:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-03T08:25:52Z</published>
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pcpu_setup_first_chunk() will panic or BUG_ON if the are some
error and doesn't return any error, hence it can be defined to
return void.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
[Dennis: fixed kbuild warning for pcpu_page_first_chunk()]
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<title>percpu: set PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE to PAGE_SIZE</title>
<updated>2019-03-13T19:25:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou</name>
<email>dennis@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-13T19:10:30Z</published>
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Previously, block size was flexible based on the constraint that the
GCD(PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE) &gt; 1. However, this carried the
overhead that keeping a floating number of populated free pages required
scanning over the free regions of a chunk.

Setting the block size to be fixed at PAGE_SIZE lets us know when an
empty page becomes used as we will break a full contig_hint of a block.
This means we no longer have to scan the whole chunk upon breaking a
contig_hint which empty page management piggybacked off. A later patch
takes advantage of this to optimize the allocation path by only scanning
forward using the scan_hint introduced later too.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>/proc/meminfo: add percpu populated pages count</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Zhou (Facebook)</name>
<email>dennisszhou@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:53:58Z</published>
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Currently, percpu memory only exposes allocation and utilization
information via debugfs.  This more or less is only really useful for
understanding the fragmentation and allocation information at a per-chunk
level with a few global counters.  This is also gated behind a config.
BPF and cgroup, for example, have seen an increase in use causing
increased use of percpu memory.  Let's make it easier for someone to
identify how much memory is being used.

This patch adds the "Percpu" stat to meminfo to more easily look up how
much percpu memory is in use.  This number includes the cost for all
allocated backing pages and not just insight at the per a unit, per chunk
level.  Metadata is excluded.  I think excluding metadata is fair because
the backing memory scales with the numbere of cpus and can quickly
outweigh the metadata.  It also makes this calculation light.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180807184723.74919-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennisszhou@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.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>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>
</author>
<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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