s390/rwlock: remove interrupt-enabling rwlock variant.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

s390/rwlock: use directed yield for write-locked rwlocks

Add an owner field to the arch_rwlock_t to be able to pass the timeslice
of a virtual CPU with diagnose 0x9c to the lock owner in case the rw

s390/rwlock: use directed yield for write-locked rwlocks

Add an owner field to the arch_rwlock_t to be able to pass the timeslice
of a virtual CPU with diagnose 0x9c to the lock owner in case the rwlock
is write-locked. The undirected yield in case the rwlock is acquired
writable but the lock is read-locked is removed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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s390/spinlock: optimize spin_unlock code

Use a memory barrier + store sequence instead of a load + compare and swap
sequence to unlock a spinlock and an rw lock.
For the spinlock case this saves us

s390/spinlock: optimize spin_unlock code

Use a memory barrier + store sequence instead of a load + compare and swap
sequence to unlock a spinlock and an rw lock.
For the spinlock case this saves us two memory reads and a not needed cpu
serialization after the compare and swap instruction stored the new value.

The kernel size (performance_defconfig) gets reduced by ~14k.

Average execution time of a tight inlined spin_unlock loop drops from
5.8ns to 0.7ns on a zEC12 machine.

An artificial stress test case where several counters are protected with
a single spinlock and which are only incremented while holding the spinlock
shows ~30% improvement on a 4 cpu machine.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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s390/spinlock,rwlock: always to a load-and-test first

In case a lock is contended it is better to do a load-and-test first
before trying to get the lock with compare-and-swap. This helps to avoid
un

s390/spinlock,rwlock: always to a load-and-test first

In case a lock is contended it is better to do a load-and-test first
before trying to get the lock with compare-and-swap. This helps to avoid
unnecessary cache invalidations of the cacheline for the lock if the
CPU has to wait for the lock. For an uncontended lock doing the
compare-and-swap directly is a bit better, if the CPU does not have the
cacheline in its cache yet the compare-and-swap will get it read-write
immediately while a load-and-test would get it read-only first.

Always to the load-and-test first to avoid the cacheline invalidations
for the contended case outweight the potential read-only to read-write
cacheline upgrade for the uncontended case.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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s390/spinlock: optimize spinlock code sequence

Use lowcore constant to improve the code generated for spinlocks.

[ Martin Schwidefsky: patch breakdown and code beautification ]

Signed-off-by: Phil

s390/spinlock: optimize spinlock code sequence

Use lowcore constant to improve the code generated for spinlocks.

[ Martin Schwidefsky: patch breakdown and code beautification ]

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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s390/spinlock: cleanup spinlock code

Improve the spinlock code in several aspects:
- Have _raw_compare_and_swap return true if the operation has been
successful instead of returning the old valu

s390/spinlock: cleanup spinlock code

Improve the spinlock code in several aspects:
- Have _raw_compare_and_swap return true if the operation has been
successful instead of returning the old value.
- Remove the "volatile" from arch_spinlock_t and arch_rwlock_t
- Rename 'owner_cpu' to 'lock'
- Add helper functions arch_spin_trylock_once / arch_spin_tryrelease_once

[ Martin Schwidefsky: patch breakdown and code beautification ]

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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s390: enable ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF

Enable ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF since it shows performance improvements
with Linus' simple stat() test case of up to 50% on a 30 cpu system.

Signed-off-by: Hei

s390: enable ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF

Enable ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF since it shows performance improvements
with Linus' simple stat() test case of up to 50% on a 30 cpu system.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

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s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names

Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.

Als

s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names

Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.

Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

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[S390] sparse: fix sparse warnings about missing prototypes

Add prototypes and includes for functions used in different modules.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

[S390] use inline assembly contraints available with gcc 3.3.3

Drop support to compile the kernel with gcc versions older than 3.3.3.
This allows us to use the "Q" inline assembly contraint on some

[S390] use inline assembly contraints available with gcc 3.3.3

Drop support to compile the kernel with gcc versions older than 3.3.3.
This allows us to use the "Q" inline assembly contraint on some more
inline assemblies without duplicating a lot of complex code (e.g. __xchg
and __cmpxchg). The distinction for older gcc versions can be removed
which saves a few lines and simplifies the code.

Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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locking: Convert raw_rwlock functions to arch_rwlock

Name space cleanup for rwlock functions. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet

locking: Convert raw_rwlock functions to arch_rwlock

Name space cleanup for rwlock functions. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

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locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlock

Not strictly necessary for -rt as -rt does not have non sleeping
rwlocks, but it's odd to not have a consistent naming convention.

No functional change.

locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlock

Not strictly necessary for -rt as -rt does not have non sleeping
rwlocks, but it's odd to not have a consistent naming convention.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

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locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*

Name space cleanup. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Ac

locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*

Name space cleanup. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

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locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlock

The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture
specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for
the spinlocks

locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlock

The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture
specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for
the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt.

Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the
name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin,
atomic_spin or whatever

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

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locking: Make inlining decision Kconfig based

commit 892a7c67 (locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks) implements the
selection of which lock functions are inlined based on defines in
arch/.../spinlo

locking: Make inlining decision Kconfig based

commit 892a7c67 (locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks) implements the
selection of which lock functions are inlined based on defines in
arch/.../spinlock.h: #define __always_inline__LOCK_FUNCTION

Despite of the name __always_inline__* the lock functions can be built
out of line depending on config options. Also if the arch does not set
some inline defines the generic code might set them; again depending on
config options.

This makes it unnecessary hard to figure out when and which lock
functions are inlined. Aside of that it makes it way harder and
messier for -rt to manipulate the lock functions.

Convert the inlining decision to CONFIG switches. Each lock function
is inlined depending on CONFIG_INLINE_*. The configs implement the
existing dependencies. The architecture code can select ARCH_INLINE_*
to signal that it wants the corresponding lock function inlined.
ARCH_INLINE_* is necessary as Kconfig ignores "depends on"
restrictions when a config element is selected.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091109151428.504477141@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

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locking: Inline spinlock code for all locking variants on s390

Speeds up several benchmarks in a measurable way, so inline
all spin-lock variants by default.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.ca

locking: Inline spinlock code for all locking variants on s390

Speeds up several benchmarks in a measurable way, so inline
all spin-lock variants by default.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Horst Hartmann <horsth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090831124419.319518405@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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[S390] implement interrupt-enabling rwlocks

arch backend for f5f7eac41db827a47b2163330eecd7bb55ae9f12
"Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts".

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.c

[S390] implement interrupt-enabling rwlocks

arch backend for f5f7eac41db827a47b2163330eecd7bb55ae9f12
"Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts".

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts

Pass the original flags to rwlock arch-code, so that it can re-enable
interrupts if implemented for that architecture.

Initially, make __raw_read_lock_flags an

Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts

Pass the original flags to rwlock arch-code, so that it can re-enable
interrupts if implemented for that architecture.

Initially, make __raw_read_lock_flags and __raw_write_lock_flags stubs
which just do the same thing as non-flags variants.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[S390] move include/asm-s390 to arch/s390/include/asm

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

s390/alternatives: make use of asm_inline

This is the s390 version of commit 40576e5e63ea ("x86: alternative.h:
use asm_inline for all alternative variants").

See commit eb11186

s390/alternatives: make use of asm_inline

This is the s390 version of commit 40576e5e63ea ("x86: alternative.h:
use asm_inline for all alternative variants").

See commit eb111869301e ("compiler-types.h: add asm_inline
definition") for more details.

With this change the compiler will not generate many out-of-line
versions for the three instruction sized arch_spin_unlock() function
anymore. Due to this gcc seems to change a lot of other inline
decisions which results in a net 6k text size growth according to
bloat-o-meter (gcc 9.2 with defconfig).
But that's still better than having many out-of-line versions of
arch_spin_unlock().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>

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s390: enforce CONFIG_SMP

There never have been distributions that shiped with CONFIG_SMP=n for
s390. In addition the kernel currently doesn't even compile with
CONFIG_SMP=n for s390.

s390: enforce CONFIG_SMP

There never have been distributions that shiped with CONFIG_SMP=n for
s390. In addition the kernel currently doesn't even compile with
CONFIG_SMP=n for s390. Most likely it wouldn't even work, even if we
fix the compile error, since nobody tests it, since there is no use
case that I can think of.
Therefore simply enforce CONFIG_SMP and get rid of some more or
less unused code.

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

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Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:

Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:

- Another attempt at enabling cross-release lockdep dependency
tracking (automatically part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y), this time
with better performance and fewer false positives. (Byungchul Park)

- Introduce lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled() and convert
open-coded equivalents to lockdep variants. (Frederic Weisbecker)

- Add down_read_killable() and use it in the VFS's iterate_dir()
method. (Kirill Tkhai)

- Convert remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() to
READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(). Most of the conversion was Coccinelle
driven. (Mark Rutland, Paul E. McKenney)

- Get rid of lockless_dereference(), by strengthening Alpha atomics,
strengthening READ_ONCE() with smp_read_barrier_depends() and thus
being able to convert users of lockless_dereference() to
READ_ONCE(). (Will Deacon)

- Various micro-optimizations:

- better PV qspinlocks (Waiman Long),
- better x86 barriers (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- better x86 refcounts (Kees Cook)

- ... plus other fixes and enhancements. (Borislav Petkov, Juergen
Gross, Miguel Bernal Marin)"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE
rcu: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
netpoll: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
timers/posix-cpu-timers: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
sched/clock, sched/cputime: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
irq_work: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
irq/timings: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
perf/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
x86: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
smp/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
timers/hrtimer: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
timers/nohz: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
workqueue: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
irq/softirqs: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
locking/lockdep: Add IRQs disabled/enabled assertion APIs: lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled()
locking/pvqspinlock: Implement hybrid PV queued/unfair locks
locking/rwlocks: Fix comments
x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized
block, locking/lockdep: Assign a lock_class per gendisk used for wait_for_completion()
workqueue: Remove now redundant lock acquisitions wrt. workqueue flushes
...

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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
"Since Martin is on vacation you get the s390 pull request fo

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
"Since Martin is on vacation you get the s390 pull request for the
v4.15 merge window this time from me.

Besides a lot of cleanups and bug fixes these are the most important
changes:

- a new regset for runtime instrumentation registers

- hardware accelerated AES-GCM support for the aes_s390 module

- support for the new CEX6S crypto cards

- support for FORTIFY_SOURCE

- addition of missing z13 and new z14 instructions to the in-kernel
disassembler

- generate opcode tables for the in-kernel disassembler out of a
simple text file instead of having to manually maintain those
tables

- fast memset16, memset32 and memset64 implementations

- removal of named saved segment support

- hardware counter support for z14

- queued spinlocks and queued rwlocks implementations for s390

- use the stack_depth tracking feature for s390 BPF JIT

- a new s390_sthyi system call which emulates the sthyi (store
hypervisor information) instruction

- removal of the old KVM virtio transport

- an s390 specific CPU alternatives implementation which is used in
the new spinlock code"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (88 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add virtio-ccw.h to virtio/s390 section
s390/noexec: execute kexec datamover without DAT
s390: fix transactional execution control register handling
s390/bpf: take advantage of stack_depth tracking
s390: simplify transactional execution elf hwcap handling
s390/zcrypt: Rework struct ap_qact_ap_info.
s390/virtio: remove unused header file kvm_virtio.h
s390: avoid undefined behaviour
s390/disassembler: generate opcode tables from text file
s390/disassembler: remove insn_to_mnemonic()
s390/dasd: avoid calling do_gettimeofday()
s390: vfio-ccw: Do not attempt to free no-op, test and tic cda.
s390: remove named saved segment support
s390/archrandom: Reconsider s390 arch random implementation
s390/pci: do not require AIS facility
s390/qdio: sanitize put_indicator
s390/qdio: use atomic_cmpxchg
s390/nmi: avoid using long-displacement facility
s390: pass endianness info to sparse
s390/decompressor: remove informational messages
...

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Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
include/linux/compiler-clang.h
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
include/linux/compiler

Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
include/linux/compiler-clang.h
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
include/linux/compiler-intel.h
include/uapi/linux/stddef.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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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

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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