Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes

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

Merge tag 'v4.14-rc8' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in SPDX markings to avoid annoying merge
problems when some header files get deleted.

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes and resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile

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

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic, to resolve conflicts

Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/x2apic.h

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

Merge branch 'linus' into core/objtool, to pick up dependent fixes

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

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

Si

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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Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts

Conflicts:
tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instruc

Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts

Conflicts:
tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c
tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c
tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c
tools/perf/util/zlib.c

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

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Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent, to pick up dependent commits

We want to fix an objtool build warning that got introduced in the latest upstream kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kern

Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent, to pick up dependent commits

We want to fix an objtool build warning that got introduced in the latest upstream kernel.

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

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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Files removed in 'net-next' had their license header updated
in 'net'. We take the remove from 'net-next'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Mil

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Files removed in 'net-next' had their license header updated
in 'net'. We take the remove from 'net-next'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent, to pick up dependent commits

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

Merge tag 'spdx_identifiers-4.14-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull initial SPDX identifiers from Greg KH:
"License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers

Merge tag 'spdx_identifiers-4.14-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull initial SPDX identifiers from Greg KH:
"License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files

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>"

* tag 'spdx_identifiers-4.14-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license
License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license
License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

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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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locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()

Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script sh

locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()

Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.

For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.

However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:

----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()

// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)

@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Merge back ACPICA material for v4.13.

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into drm-misc-next-fixes

Backmerge 4.12-rc6 into -next-fixes. -next-fixes will contain find patches
for 4.13 merge window

Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq', 'pm-cpuidle' and 'pm-devfreq'

* pm-cpufreq:
cpufreq: conservative: Allow down_threshold to take values from 1 to 10
Revert "cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies sl

Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq', 'pm-cpuidle' and 'pm-devfreq'

* pm-cpufreq:
cpufreq: conservative: Allow down_threshold to take values from 1 to 10
Revert "cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies slower"

* pm-cpuidle:
cpuidle: dt: Add missing 'of_node_put()'

* pm-devfreq:
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Staticize event list
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Handle return value of clk_prepare_enable
PM / devfreq: exynos-nocp: Handle return value of clk_prepare_enable

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Merge tag 'v4.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next

Linux 4.12-rc5

Merge tag 'v4.12-rc3' into for-linus

Merge with mainline to get acpi_dev_present() needed by patches to
axp20x-pek driver.

Merge tag 'v4.12-rc3' into next

Sync with mainline to bring in changes in platform drovers dropping
calls to sparse_keymap_free() so that we can remove it for good.

Sync to mainline for security submaintainers to work against

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-misc-next

Picking up drm-next @ 4.12-rc1 in order to apply Michal Hocko's vmalloc patch set

Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>

Merge 'v4.12-rc1' into MTD

Bring a few queued patches in sync for -next development.

Merge tag 'v4.12-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.12-rc1

* tag 'v4.12-rc1': (13212 commits)
Linux 4.12-rc1
mm, docs: update memory.stat description with workingset* entries
mm: vmscan: scan until

Merge tag 'v4.12-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.12-rc1

* tag 'v4.12-rc1': (13212 commits)
Linux 4.12-rc1
mm, docs: update memory.stat description with workingset* entries
mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages
mm, thp: copying user pages must schedule on collapse
dax: fix PMD data corruption when fault races with write
dax: fix data corruption when fault races with write
ext4: return to starting transaction in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
mm: fix data corruption due to stale mmap reads
dax: prevent invalidation of mapped DAX entries
Tigran has moved
mm, vmalloc: fix vmalloc users tracking properly
mm/khugepaged: add missed tracepoint for collapse_huge_page_swapin
gcov: support GCC 7.1
mm, vmstat: Remove spurious WARN() during zoneinfo print
time: delete current_fs_time()
hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages
sound: Disable the build of OSS drivers
drm/i915: Make vblank evade warnings optional
Input: cros_ec_keyb - remove extraneous 'const'
drm/nouveau/therm: remove ineffective workarounds for alarm bugs
...

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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

- the rest of MM

- various misc things

- procfs updates

- lib/ updates

- checkpatch updates

- kdump/kexec

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

- the rest of MM

- various misc things

- procfs updates

- lib/ updates

- checkpatch updates

- kdump/kexec updates

- add kvmalloc helpers, use them

- time helper updates for Y2038 issues. We're almost ready to remove
current_fs_time() but that awaits a btrfs merge.

- add tracepoints to DAX

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (114 commits)
drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_hash.c: fix build with gcc-4.4.4
selftests/vm: add a test for virtual address range mapping
dax: add tracepoint to dax_insert_mapping()
dax: add tracepoint to dax_writeback_one()
dax: add tracepoints to dax_writeback_mapping_range()
dax: add tracepoints to dax_load_hole()
dax: add tracepoints to dax_pfn_mkwrite()
dax: add tracepoints to dax_iomap_pte_fault()
mtd: nand: nandsim: convert to memalloc_noreclaim_*()
treewide: convert PF_MEMALLOC manipulations to new helpers
mm: introduce memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore}
mm: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC
mm/huge_memory.c: deposit a pgtable for DAX PMD faults when required
mm/huge_memory.c: use zap_deposited_table() more
time: delete CURRENT_TIME_SEC and CURRENT_TIME
gfs2: replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time
apparmorfs: replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time()
lustre: replace CURRENT_TIME macro
fs: ubifs: replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time
fs: ufs: use ktime_get_real_ts64() for birthtime
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mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers

Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.

There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree. Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not c

mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers

Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.

There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree. Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
fallback is available.

As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
subsystem proper.

Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
instead. This is patch 6. There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
was not opposed [2] to convert them as well.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com

This patch (of 9):

Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper
for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are
really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make
a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM
killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
user visible action.

This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
(note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those need to be
fixed separately.

While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
superset) flags to catch new abusers. Existing ones would have to die
slowly.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> [ext4 part]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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