x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN

[ Upstream commit 2d7ce49f58dc95495b3e22e45d2be7de909b2c63 ]

Enabling CONFIG_KCSAN leads to unconverted, default return

x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN

[ Upstream commit 2d7ce49f58dc95495b3e22e45d2be7de909b2c63 ]

Enabling CONFIG_KCSAN leads to unconverted, default return thunks to
remain after patching.

As David Kaplan describes in his debugging of the issue, it is caused by
a couple of KCSAN-generated constructors which aren't processed by
objtool:

"When KCSAN is enabled, GCC generates lots of constructor functions
named _sub_I_00099_0 which call __tsan_init and then return. The
returns in these are generally annotated normally by objtool and fixed
up at runtime. But objtool runs on vmlinux.o and vmlinux.o does not
include a couple of object files that are in vmlinux, like
init/version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o, both of which contain
_sub_I_00099_0 functions. As a result, the returns in these functions
are not annotated, and the panic occurs when we call one of them in
do_ctors and it uses the default return thunk.

This difference can be seen by counting the number of these functions in the object files:
$ objdump -d vmlinux.o|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
2601
$ objdump -d vmlinux|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
2603

If these functions are only run during kernel boot, there is no
speculation concern."

Fix it by disabling KCSAN on version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o
so the extra functions don't get generated. KASAN and GCOV are already
disabled for those files.

[ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231016214810.GA3942238@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017165946.v4i2d4exyqwqq3bx@treble
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV

With GCOV_PROFILE_ALL, Clang injects __llvm_gcov_* functions to
each object file, and the functions are indirectly called during
boot. However, when code is inject

kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV

With GCOV_PROFILE_ALL, Clang injects __llvm_gcov_* functions to
each object file, and the functions are indirectly called during
boot. However, when code is injected to object files that are not
part of vmlinux.o, it's also not processed by objtool, which breaks
CFI hash randomization as the hashes in these files won't be
included in the .cfi_sites section and thus won't be randomized.

Similarly to commit 42633ed852de ("kbuild: Fix CFI hash
randomization with KASAN"), disable GCOV for .vmlinux.export.o and
init/version-timestamp.o to avoid emitting unnecessary functions to
object files that don't otherwise have executable code.

Fixes: 0c3e806ec0f9 ("x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization")
Reported-by: Joe Fradley <joefradley@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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kbuild: Fix CFI hash randomization with KASAN

Clang emits a asan.module_ctor constructor to each object file
when KASAN is enabled, and these functions are indirectly called
in do_ctors. With CONFIG

kbuild: Fix CFI hash randomization with KASAN

Clang emits a asan.module_ctor constructor to each object file
when KASAN is enabled, and these functions are indirectly called
in do_ctors. With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler also emits a CFI
type hash before each address-taken global function so they can
pass indirect call checks.

However, in commit 0c3e806ec0f9 ("x86/cfi: Add boot time hash
randomization"), x86 implemented boot time hash randomization,
which relies on the .cfi_sites section generated by objtool. As
objtool is run against vmlinux.o instead of individual object
files with X86_KERNEL_IBT (enabled by default), CFI types in
object files that are not part of vmlinux.o end up not being
included in .cfi_sites, and thus won't get randomized and trip
CFI when called.

Only .vmlinux.export.o and init/version-timestamp.o are linked
into vmlinux separately from vmlinux.o. As these files don't
contain any functions, disable KASAN for both of them to avoid
breaking hash randomization.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1742
Fixes: 0c3e806ec0f9 ("x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization")
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112224948.1479453-2-samitolvanen@google.com

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kbuild: generate include/generated/compile.h in top Makefile

Now that UTS_VERSION was separated out, this header can be generated
much earlier, and probably the top Makefile is a better place to do

kbuild: generate include/generated/compile.h in top Makefile

Now that UTS_VERSION was separated out, this header can be generated
much earlier, and probably the top Makefile is a better place to do it
than init/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once

Kbuild builds init/built-in.a twice; first during the ordinary
directory descending, second from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

We do this because UTS_VERSION cont

kbuild: build init/built-in.a just once

Kbuild builds init/built-in.a twice; first during the ordinary
directory descending, second from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

We do this because UTS_VERSION contains the build version and the
timestamp. We cannot update it during the normal directory traversal
since we do not yet know if we need to update vmlinux. UTS_VERSION is
temporarily calculated, but omitted from the update check. Otherwise,
vmlinux would be rebuilt every time.

When Kbuild results in running link-vmlinux.sh, it increments the
version number in the .version file and takes the timestamp at that
time to really fix UTS_VERSION.

However, updating the same file twice is a footgun. To avoid nasty
timestamp issues, all build artifacts that depend on init/built-in.a
are atomically generated in link-vmlinux.sh, where some of them do not
need rebuilding.

To fix this issue, this commit changes as follows:

[1] Split UTS_VERSION out to include/generated/utsversion.h from
include/generated/compile.h

include/generated/utsversion.h is generated just before the
vmlinux link. It is generated under include/generated/ because
some decompressors (s390, x86) use UTS_VERSION.

[2] Split init_uts_ns and linux_banner out to init/version-timestamp.c
from init/version.c

init_uts_ns and linux_banner contain UTS_VERSION. During the ordinary
directory descending, they are compiled with __weak and used to
determine if vmlinux needs relinking. Just before the vmlinux link,
they are compiled without __weak to embed the real version and
timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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sched/preempt: Tell about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC on kernel headers

Displaying "PREEMPT" on kernel headers when CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
can be misleading for anybody involved in remote debugging because it

sched/preempt: Tell about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC on kernel headers

Displaying "PREEMPT" on kernel headers when CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
can be misleading for anybody involved in remote debugging because it
is then not guaranteed that there is an actual preemption behaviour. It
depends on default Kconfig or boot defined choices.

Therefore, tell about PREEMPT_DYNAMIC on static kernel headers and leave
the search for the actual preemption behaviour to browsing dmesg.

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217111240.GA742892@lothringen

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kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf

The previous commit fixed up all shell scripts to not include
include/config/auto.conf.

Now that include/config/auto.conf is only incl

kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf

The previous commit fixed up all shell scripts to not include
include/config/auto.conf.

Now that include/config/auto.conf is only included by Makefiles,
we can change it into a more Make-friendly form.

Previously, Kconfig output string values enclosed with double-quotes
(both in the .config and include/config/auto.conf):

CONFIG_X="foo bar"

Unlike shell, Make handles double-quotes (and single-quotes as well)
verbatim. We must rip them off when used.

There are some patterns:

[1] $(patsubst "%",%,$(CONFIG_X))
[2] $(CONFIG_X:"%"=%)
[3] $(subst ",,$(CONFIG_X))
[4] $(shell echo $(CONFIG_X))

These are not only ugly, but also fragile.

[1] and [2] do not work if the value contains spaces, like
CONFIG_X=" foo bar "

[3] does not work correctly if the value contains double-quotes like
CONFIG_X="foo\"bar"

[4] seems to work better, but has a cost of forking a process.

Anyway, quoted strings were always PITA for our Makefiles.

This commit changes Kconfig to stop quoting in include/config/auto.conf.

These are the string type symbols referenced in Makefiles or scripts:

ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE
ARC_BUILTIN_DTB_NAME
ARC_TUNE_MCPU
BUILTIN_DTB_SOURCE
CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH
CC_VERSION_TEXT
CFG80211_EXTRA_REGDB_KEYDIR
EXTRA_FIRMWARE
EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
EXTRA_TARGETS
H8300_BUILTIN_DTB
INITRAMFS_SOURCE
LOCALVERSION
MODULE_SIG_HASH
MODULE_SIG_KEY
NDS32_BUILTIN_DTB
NIOS2_DTB_SOURCE
OPENRISC_BUILTIN_DTB
SOC_CANAAN_K210_DTB_SOURCE
SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_HASH_LIST
SYSTEM_REVOCATION_KEYS
SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS
TARGET_CPU
UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
XILINX_MICROBLAZE0_FAMILY
XILINX_MICROBLAZE0_HW_VER
XTENSA_VARIANT_NAME

I checked them one by one, and fixed up the code where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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preempt: Restore preemption model selection configs

Commit c597bfddc9e9 ("sched: Provide Kconfig support for default dynamic
preempt mode") changed the selectable config names for the preemption
mod

preempt: Restore preemption model selection configs

Commit c597bfddc9e9 ("sched: Provide Kconfig support for default dynamic
preempt mode") changed the selectable config names for the preemption
model. This means a config file must now select

CONFIG_PREEMPT_BEHAVIOUR=y

rather than

CONFIG_PREEMPT=y

to get a preemptible kernel. This means all arch config files would need to
be updated - right now they'll all end up with the default
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR.

Rather than touch a good hundred of config files, restore usage of
CONFIG_PREEMPT{_NONE, _VOLUNTARY}. Make them configure:
o The build-time preemption model when !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
o The default boot-time preemption model when PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

Add siblings of those configs with the _BUILD suffix to unconditionally
designate the build-time preemption model (PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is built with
the "highest" preemption model it supports, aka PREEMPT). Downstream
configs should by now all be depending / selected by CONFIG_PREEMPTION
rather than CONFIG_PREEMPT, so only a few sites need patching up.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110202448.4054153-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com

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init: use $(call cmd,) for generating include/generated/compile.h

The 'cmd' macro shows the short log only when $(quiet) is quiet_.
Do not do it manually.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@

init: use $(call cmd,) for generating include/generated/compile.h

The 'cmd' macro shows the short log only when $(quiet) is quiet_.
Do not do it manually.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/

Just like the NFS and CIFS root code this better lives with the
driver it is tightly integrated with.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ls

md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/

Just like the NFS and CIFS root code this better lives with the
driver it is tightly integrated with.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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kbuild: use CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT to construct LINUX_COMPILER macro

scripts/mkcompile_h runs $(CC) just for getting the version string.
Reuse CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT for optimization.

For GCC, this

kbuild: use CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT to construct LINUX_COMPILER macro

scripts/mkcompile_h runs $(CC) just for getting the version string.
Reuse CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT for optimization.

For GCC, this slightly changes the version string. I do not think it
is a big deal as we do not have the defined format for LINUX_COMPILER.
In fact, the recent commit 4dcc9a88448a ("kbuild: mkcompile_h:
Include $LD version in /proc/version") added the linker version.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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kbuild: do not pass $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) to scripts/mkcompile_h

scripts/mkcompile_h uses $(CC) only for getting the version string.

I suspected there was a specific reason why the additional flags were

kbuild: do not pass $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) to scripts/mkcompile_h

scripts/mkcompile_h uses $(CC) only for getting the version string.

I suspected there was a specific reason why the additional flags were
needed, and dug the commit history. This code dates back to at least
2002 [1], but I could not get any more clue.

Just get rid of it.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=29f3df7eba8ddf91a55183f9967f76fbcc3ab742

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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kbuild: mkcompile_h: Include $LD version in /proc/version

When doing Clang builds of the kernel, it is possible to link with
either ld.bfd (binutils) or ld.lld (LLVM), but it is not possible to
disc

kbuild: mkcompile_h: Include $LD version in /proc/version

When doing Clang builds of the kernel, it is possible to link with
either ld.bfd (binutils) or ld.lld (LLVM), but it is not possible to
discover this from a running kernel. Add the "$LD -v" output to
/proc/version.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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Kbuild: Handle PREEMPT_RT for version string and magic

Update the build scripts and the version magic to reflect when
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is enabled in the same way as CONFIG_PREEMPT is treated.

The

Kbuild: Handle PREEMPT_RT for version string and magic

Update the build scripts and the version magic to reflect when
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is enabled in the same way as CONFIG_PREEMPT is treated.

The resulting version strings:

Linux m 5.3.0-rc1+ #100 SMP Fri Jul 26 ...
Linux m 5.3.0-rc1+ #101 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 26 ...
Linux m 5.3.0-rc1+ #102 SMP PREEMPT_RT Fri Jul 26 ...

The module vermagic:

5.3.0-rc1+ SMP mod_unload modversions
5.3.0-rc1+ SMP preempt mod_unload modversions
5.3.0-rc1+ SMP preempt_rt mod_unload modversions

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

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Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union

Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be

Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union

Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

init_thread_union
init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack. init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order. I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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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 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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kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination

Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to
select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link

kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination

Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to
select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link
with --gc-sections. It requires some work (documented) to ensure all
unreferenced entrypoints are live, and requires toolchain and build
verification, so it is made a per-arch option for now.

On a random powerpc64le build, this yelds a significant size saving,
it boots and runs fine, but there is a lot I haven't tested as yet, so
these savings may be reduced if there are bugs in the link.

text data bss dec filename
11169741 1180744 1923176 14273661 vmlinux
10445269 1004127 1919707 13369103 vmlinux.dce

~700K text, ~170K data, 6% removed from kernel image size.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>

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init_task: Replace CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK

Now that all archs except ia64 are converted, replace the config and
let the ia64 select CONFIG_ARCH_INIT_TASK

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@

init_task: Replace CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_INIT_TASK

Now that all archs except ia64 are converted, replace the config and
let the ia64 select CONFIG_ARCH_INIT_TASK

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.867948914@linutronix.de

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init_task: Create generic init_task instance

All archs define init_task in the same way (except ia64, but there is
no particular reason why ia64 cannot use the common version). Create a
generic inst

init_task: Create generic init_task instance

All archs define init_task in the same way (except ia64, but there is
no particular reason why ia64 cannot use the common version). Create a
generic instance so all archs can be converted over.

The config switch is temporary and will be removed when all archs are
converted over.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085034.092585287@linutronix.de

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kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

genirq: revert dynarray

Revert the dynarray changes. They need more thought and polishing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

dyn_array: split dyn_array functions from init/main.c

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

kbuild: fix make V=1

When make -s support were added to filechk to
combination created with make V=1 were not
covered.
Fix it by explicitly cover this case too.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@rav

kbuild: fix make V=1

When make -s support were added to filechk to
combination created with make V=1 were not
covered.
Fix it by explicitly cover this case too.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

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kbuild: silence CHK/UPD messages according to $(quiet)

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC

The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people

kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC

The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.

One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k

Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

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