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Revision tags: v6.16, v6.16-rc7, v6.16-rc6, v6.16-rc5, v6.16-rc4, v6.16-rc3, v6.16-rc2, v6.16-rc1, v6.15, v6.15-rc7, v6.15-rc6, v6.15-rc5, v6.15-rc4, v6.15-rc3, v6.15-rc2
# 1260ed77 08-Apr-2025 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get updates from v6.15-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v6.15-rc1
# 946661e3 05-Apr-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.15 merge window.


Revision tags: v6.14, v6.14-rc7, v6.14-rc6, v6.14-rc5
# 0410c612 28-Feb-2025 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-xe-next

Sync to fix conlicts between drm-xe-next and drm-intel-next.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>


# 0b119045 26-Feb-2025 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.14-rc4' into next

Sync up with the mainline.


Revision tags: v6.14-rc4, v6.14-rc3, v6.14-rc2
# 93c7dd1b 06-Feb-2025 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Bring rc1 to start the new release dev.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>


# 9e676a02 05-Feb-2025 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.14-rc1' into perf-tools-next

To get the various fixes in the current master.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>


# ea9f8f2b 05-Feb-2025 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync with v6.14-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>


# c771600c 05-Feb-2025 Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

We need
4ba4f1afb6a9 ("perf: Generic hotplug support for a PMU with a scope")
in order to land a i915 PMU simplification and a fix. That landed in 6.12
and we are stuck at 6.9 so lets bump things forward.

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>

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Revision tags: v6.14-rc1
# 95ec54a4 21-Jan-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'powerpc-6.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

- Add preempt lazy support

- Deprecate cxl and cxl flash

Merge tag 'powerpc-6.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:

- Add preempt lazy support

- Deprecate cxl and cxl flash driver

- Fix a possible IOMMU related OOPS at boot on pSeries

- Optimize sched_clock() in ppc32 by replacing mulhdu() by
mul_u64_u64_shr()

Thanks to Andrew Donnellan, Andy Shevchenko, Ankur Arora, Christophe
Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Gaurav Batra, Luis Felipe Hernandez, Michael
Ellerman, Nilay Shroff, Ricardo B. Marliere, Ritesh Harjani (IBM),
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shrikanth Hegde, Sourabh Jain, Thorsten Blum,
and Zhu Jun.

* tag 'powerpc-6.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
selftests/powerpc: Fix argument order to timer_sub()
powerpc/prom_init: Use IS_ENABLED()
powerpc/pseries/iommu: IOMMU incorrectly marks MMIO range in DDW
powerpc: Use str_on_off() helper in check_cache_coherency()
powerpc: Large user copy aware of full:rt:lazy preemption
powerpc: Add preempt lazy support
powerpc/book3s64/hugetlb: Fix disabling hugetlb when fadump is active
powerpc/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init
powerpc/64: Use get_user() in start_thread()
macintosh: declare ctl_table as const
selftest/powerpc/ptrace: Cleanup duplicate macro definitions
selftest/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-pkey: Remove duplicate macros
selftest/powerpc/ptrace/core-pkey: Remove duplicate macros
powerpc/8xx: Drop legacy-of-mm-gpiochip.h header
scsi/cxlflash: Deprecate driver
cxl: Deprecate driver
selftests/powerpc: Fix typo in test-vphn.c
powerpc/xmon: Use str_yes_no() helper in dump_one_paca()
powerpc/32: Replace mulhdu() by mul_u64_u64_shr()

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Revision tags: v6.13, v6.13-rc7, v6.13-rc6, v6.13-rc5, v6.13-rc4, v6.13-rc3
# 9fa97126 14-Dec-2024 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init

VDSO text is fixed-up during init so it can't be const,
but it can be read-only after init.

Do the same as x86 in commit 018ef8dcf3de ("x86/vds

powerpc/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init

VDSO text is fixed-up during init so it can't be const,
but it can be read-only after init.

Do the same as x86 in commit 018ef8dcf3de ("x86/vdso: Mark the vDSO
code read-only after init") and arm in commit 11bf9b865898 ("ARM/vdso:
Mark the vDSO code read-only after init"), move it into
ro_after_init section.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e9892d288b646cbdfeef0b2b73edbaf6d3c6cabe.1734174500.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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Revision tags: v6.13-rc2, v6.13-rc1, v6.12, v6.12-rc7, v6.12-rc6, v6.12-rc5, v6.12-rc4, v6.12-rc3, v6.12-rc2, v6.12-rc1, v6.11, v6.11-rc7, v6.11-rc6, v6.11-rc5, v6.11-rc4, v6.11-rc3, v6.11-rc2, v6.11-rc1, v6.10, v6.10-rc7, v6.10-rc6, v6.10-rc5, v6.10-rc4, v6.10-rc3, v6.10-rc2, v6.10-rc1, v6.9, v6.9-rc7, v6.9-rc6, v6.9-rc5, v6.9-rc4, v6.9-rc3, v6.9-rc2, v6.9-rc1, v6.8, v6.8-rc7, v6.8-rc6, v6.8-rc5, v6.8-rc4, v6.8-rc3, v6.8-rc2, v6.8-rc1, v6.7, v6.7-rc8, v6.7-rc7, v6.7-rc6, v6.7-rc5, v6.7-rc4, v6.7-rc3, v6.7-rc2, v6.7-rc1, v6.6, v6.6-rc7, v6.6-rc6, v6.6-rc5, v6.6-rc4, v6.6-rc3, v6.6-rc2, v6.6-rc1, v6.5, v6.5-rc7, v6.5-rc6, v6.5-rc5, v6.5-rc4, v6.5-rc3, v6.5-rc2, v6.5-rc1, v6.4, v6.4-rc7, v6.4-rc6, v6.4-rc5, v6.4-rc4, v6.4-rc3, v6.4-rc2, v6.4-rc1, v6.3, v6.3-rc7, v6.3-rc6, v6.3-rc5, v6.3-rc4, v6.3-rc3, v6.3-rc2, v6.3-rc1, v6.2, v6.2-rc8, v6.2-rc7, v6.2-rc6, v6.2-rc5, v6.2-rc4, v6.2-rc3, v6.2-rc2, v6.2-rc1
# 4f2c0a4a 14-Dec-2022 Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>

Merge branch 'main' into zstd-linus


Revision tags: v6.1, v6.1-rc8, v6.1-rc7, v6.1-rc6, v6.1-rc5, v6.1-rc4, v6.1-rc3, v6.1-rc2
# 14e77332 21-Oct-2022 Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>

Merge branch 'main' into zstd-next


Revision tags: v6.1-rc1, v6.0, v6.0-rc7, v6.0-rc6, v6.0-rc5, v6.0-rc4, v6.0-rc3, v6.0-rc2, v6.0-rc1
# 8bb5e7f4 02-Aug-2022 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.20 (or 6.0) merge window.


Revision tags: v5.19, v5.19-rc8, v5.19-rc7, v5.19-rc6, v5.19-rc5, v5.19-rc4, v5.19-rc3, v5.19-rc2, v5.19-rc1
# 690e1790 27-May-2022 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v5.18' into next

Sync up with mainline to get updates to OMAP4 keypad driver and other
upstream goodies.


# 03ab8e62 31-May-2022 Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>

Merge tag 'v5.18'

Linux 5.18


Revision tags: v5.18, v5.18-rc7, v5.18-rc6, v5.18-rc5, v5.18-rc4
# 0aea30a0 19-Apr-2022 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v5.18-rc3' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v5.18

A collection of fixes that came in since the merge window, plus

Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v5.18-rc3' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Fixes for v5.18

A collection of fixes that came in since the merge window, plus one new
device ID for an x86 laptop. Nothing that really stands out with
particularly big impact outside of the affected device.

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Revision tags: v5.18-rc3
# 651a8879 13-Apr-2022 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Merge branch 'topic/cs35l41' into for-next

Pull CS35L41 codec updates

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>


# c16c8bfa 12-Apr-2022 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Pull in TTM changes needed for DG2 CCS enabling from Ram.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>


# 83970cd6 11-Apr-2022 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync up with v5.18-rc1, in particular to get 5e3094cfd9fb
("drm/i915/xehpsdv: Add has_flat_ccs to device info").

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync up with v5.18-rc1, in particular to get 5e3094cfd9fb
("drm/i915/xehpsdv: Add has_flat_ccs to device info").

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v5.18-rc2
# cf5c5763 05-Apr-2022 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Let's start the 5.18 fixes cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


# 9cbbd694 05-Apr-2022 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Let's start the 5.19 development cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


Revision tags: v5.18-rc1
# 1f1c153e 25-Mar-2022 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'powerpc-5.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Livepatch support for 32-bit is probably the standout new feat

Merge tag 'powerpc-5.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Livepatch support for 32-bit is probably the standout new feature,
otherwise mostly just lots of bits and pieces all over the board.

There's a series of commits cleaning up function descriptor handling,
which touches a few other arches as well as LKDTM. It has acks from
Arnd, Kees and Helge.

Summary:

- Enforce kernel RO, and implement STRICT_MODULE_RWX for 603.

- Add support for livepatch to 32-bit.

- Implement CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.

- Merge vdso64 and vdso32 into a single directory.

- Fix build errors with newer binutils.

- Add support for UADDR64 relocations, which are emitted by some
toolchains. This allows powerpc to build with the latest lld.

- Fix (another) potential userspace r13 corruption in transactional
memory handling.

- Cleanups of function descriptor handling & related fixes to LKDTM.

Thanks to Abdul Haleem, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Anders Roxell, Aneesh
Kumar K.V, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Bhaskar
Chowdhury, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Jingwen, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Corentin Labbe, Daniel Axtens, Daniel Henrique
Barboza, David Dai, Fabiano Rosas, Ganesh Goudar, Guo Zhengkui, Hangyu
Hua, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Igor Zhbanov, Jakob Koschel, Jason
Wang, Jeremy Kerr, Joachim Wiberg, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kajol
Jain, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mamatha Inamdar,
Maxime Bizon, Maxim Kiselev, Maxim Kochetkov, Michal Suchanek,
Nageswara R Sastry, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Nour-eddine Taleb, Paul Menzel, Ping Fang, Pratik R. Sampat, Randy
Dunlap, Ritesh Harjani, Rohan McLure, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant,
Segher Boessenkool, Shivaprasad G Bhat, Sourabh Jain, Thierry Reding,
Tobias Waldekranz, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vladimir Oltean,
Wedson Almeida Filho, and YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (179 commits)
powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()
powerpc/time: improve decrementer clockevent processing
powerpc/time: Fix KVM host re-arming a timer beyond decrementer range
powerpc/tm: Fix more userspace r13 corruption
powerpc/xive: fix return value of __setup handler
powerpc/64: Add UADDR64 relocation support
powerpc: 8xx: fix a return value error in mpc8xx_pic_init
powerpc/ps3: remove unneeded semicolons
powerpc/64: Force inlining of prevent_user_access() and set_kuap()
powerpc/bitops: Force inlining of fls()
powerpc: declare unmodified attribute_group usages const
powerpc/spufs: Fix build warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
powerpc/secvar: fix refcount leak in format_show()
powerpc/64e: Tie PPC_BOOK3E_64 to PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
powerpc: Move C prototypes out of asm-prototypes.h
powerpc/kexec: Declare kexec_paca static
powerpc/smp: Declare current_set static
powerpc: Cleanup asm-prototypes.c
powerpc/ftrace: Use STK_GOT in ftrace_mprofile.S
powerpc/ftrace: Regroup PPC64 specific operations in ftrace_mprofile.S
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Revision tags: v5.17, v5.17-rc8, v5.17-rc7, v5.17-rc6, v5.17-rc5, v5.17-rc4, v5.17-rc3, v5.17-rc2, v5.17-rc1
# fd1feade 21-Jan-2022 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc/vdso: Merge vdso64 and vdso32 into a single directory

merge vdso64 into vdso32 and rename it vdso.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe

powerpc/vdso: Merge vdso64 and vdso32 into a single directory

merge vdso64 into vdso32 and rename it vdso.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4dbe05cc130f6a0858d09ac72e436c373cb08b70.1642782130.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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Revision tags: v5.16, v5.16-rc8, v5.16-rc7, v5.16-rc6, v5.16-rc5, v5.16-rc4, v5.16-rc3, v5.16-rc2, v5.16-rc1, v5.15, v5.15-rc7, v5.15-rc6, v5.15-rc5, v5.15-rc4, v5.15-rc3, v5.15-rc2, v5.15-rc1, v5.14, v5.14-rc7, v5.14-rc6, v5.14-rc5, v5.14-rc4, v5.14-rc3, v5.14-rc2, v5.14-rc1, v5.13, v5.13-rc7, v5.13-rc6, v5.13-rc5, v5.13-rc4, v5.13-rc3, v5.13-rc2, v5.13-rc1, v5.12, v5.12-rc8, v5.12-rc7, v5.12-rc6, v5.12-rc5, v5.12-rc4, v5.12-rc3, v5.12-rc2, v5.12-rc1, v5.12-rc1-dontuse, v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6, v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1
# bce74491 23-Dec-2020 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

powerpc/vdso: fix unnecessary rebuilds of vgettimeofday.o

vgettimeofday.o is unnecessarily rebuilt. Adding it to 'targets' is not
enough to fix the issue. Kbuild is correctly rebuilding it because t

powerpc/vdso: fix unnecessary rebuilds of vgettimeofday.o

vgettimeofday.o is unnecessarily rebuilt. Adding it to 'targets' is not
enough to fix the issue. Kbuild is correctly rebuilding it because the
command line is changed.

PowerPC builds each vdso directory twice; first in vdso_prepare to
generate vdso{32,64}-offsets.h, second as part of the ordinary build
process to embed vdso{32,64}.so.dbg into the kernel.

The problem shows up when CONFIG_PPC_WERROR=y due to the following line
in arch/powerpc/Kbuild:

subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPC_WERROR) := -Werror

In the preparation stage, Kbuild directly visits the vdso directories,
hence it does not inherit subdir-ccflags-y. In the second descend,
Kbuild adds -Werror, which results in the command line flipping
with/without -Werror.

It implies a potential danger; if a more critical flag that would impact
the resulted vdso, the offsets recorded in the headers might be different
from real offsets in the embedded vdso images.

Removing the unneeded second descend solves the problem.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/87tuslxhry.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201223171142.707053-1-masahiroy@kernel.org

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Revision tags: v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6, v5.10-rc5, v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3, v5.10-rc2, v5.10-rc1, v5.9, v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6, v5.9-rc5, v5.9-rc4, v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1, v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6, v5.8-rc5, v5.8-rc4, v5.8-rc3, v5.8-rc2, v5.8-rc1, v5.7, v5.7-rc7, v5.7-rc6, v5.7-rc5, v5.7-rc4, v5.7-rc3, v5.7-rc2, v5.7-rc1, v5.6, v5.6-rc7, v5.6-rc6, v5.6-rc5, v5.6-rc4, v5.6-rc3, v5.6-rc2, v5.6-rc1, v5.5, v5.5-rc7, v5.5-rc6, v5.5-rc5, v5.5-rc4, v5.5-rc3, v5.5-rc2, v5.5-rc1, v5.4, v5.4-rc8, v5.4-rc7, v5.4-rc6, v5.4-rc5, v5.4-rc4, v5.4-rc3, v5.4-rc2, v5.4-rc1, v5.3, v5.3-rc8, v5.3-rc7, v5.3-rc6, v5.3-rc5, v5.3-rc4, v5.3-rc3, v5.3-rc2, v5.3-rc1, v5.2, v5.2-rc7, v5.2-rc6, v5.2-rc5, v5.2-rc4, v5.2-rc3, v5.2-rc2, v5.2-rc1, v5.1, v5.1-rc7, v5.1-rc6, v5.1-rc5, v5.1-rc4, v5.1-rc3, v5.1-rc2, v5.1-rc1, v5.0, v5.0-rc8, v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6, v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3, v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20, v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6, v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4, v4.20-rc3, v4.20-rc2, v4.20-rc1, v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6, v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1, v4.18, v4.18-rc8, v4.18-rc7, v4.18-rc6, v4.18-rc5, v4.18-rc4, v4.18-rc3, v4.18-rc2, v4.18-rc1, v4.17, v4.17-rc7, v4.17-rc6, v4.17-rc5, v4.17-rc4, v4.17-rc3, v4.17-rc2, v4.17-rc1, v4.16, v4.16-rc7, v4.16-rc6, v4.16-rc5, v4.16-rc4, v4.16-rc3, v4.16-rc2, v4.16-rc1, v4.15, v4.15-rc9, v4.15-rc8, v4.15-rc7, v4.15-rc6, v4.15-rc5, v4.15-rc4, v4.15-rc3, v4.15-rc2, v4.15-rc1, v4.14, v4.14-rc8
# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

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

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 <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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