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# 8c5db92a 07-Nov-2017 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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# 15bcdc94 07-Nov-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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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# 649e441f 04-Nov-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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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# 2a171788 03-Nov-2017 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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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# 294cbd05 03-Nov-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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

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


# ead75150 02-Nov-2017 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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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# 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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Revision tags: v4.13.5, v4.13, v4.12, v4.10.17, v4.10.16, v4.10.15, v4.10.14, v4.10.13, v4.10.12, v4.10.11, v4.10.10, v4.10.9, v4.10.8, v4.10.7, v4.10.6, v4.10.5, v4.10.4, v4.10.3, v4.10.2, v4.10.1, v4.10
# f26e8817 16-Dec-2016 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 4.10 merge window.


Revision tags: v4.9, openbmc-4.4-20161121-1, v4.4.33, v4.4.32, v4.4.31
# 712cba5d 07-Nov-2016 Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v4.9-rc3' into xtensa-for-next

Linux 4.9-rc3


# cc9b9402 04-Nov-2016 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'topic/error' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator into regulator-fixed


# 9902aa47 01-Nov-2016 Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

Merge branch 'drm-tda998x-mali' into drm-tda998x-devel


Revision tags: v4.4.30, v4.4.29, v4.4.28, v4.4.27, v4.7.10, openbmc-4.4-20161021-1, v4.7.9, v4.4.26, v4.7.8, v4.4.25
# 4a7126a2 13-Oct-2016 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v4.8' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in I2C host notify changes and other
updates.


Revision tags: v4.4.24, v4.7.7, v4.8, v4.4.23, v4.7.6, v4.7.5, v4.4.22, v4.4.21, v4.7.4
# 16217dc7 14-Sep-2016 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge tag 'irqchip-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/core

Merge the first drop of irqchip updates for 4.9 from Marc Zyngier:

- ACPI IORT core code
-

Merge tag 'irqchip-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/core

Merge the first drop of irqchip updates for 4.9 from Marc Zyngier:

- ACPI IORT core code
- IORT support for the GICv3 ITS
- A few of GIC cleanups

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Revision tags: v4.7.3, v4.4.20, v4.7.2, v4.4.19, openbmc-4.4-20160819-1
# f594d0b9 18-Aug-2016 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes

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


Revision tags: v4.7.1, v4.4.18
# cc926387 15-Aug-2016 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued

Backmerge because too many conflicts, and also we need to get at the
latest struct fence patches from Gustavo. Requested by

Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued

Backmerge because too many conflicts, and also we need to get at the
latest struct fence patches from Gustavo. Requested by Chris Wilson.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

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# fdbdfefb 10-Aug-2016 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into timers/urgent, to pick up fixes

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


# a2071cd7 10-Aug-2016 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge branch 'linus' into locking/urgent, to pick up fixes

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


Revision tags: v4.4.17
# a21aae3b 08-Aug-2016 Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>

Merge tag 'for-hubcap-v4.9-readahead' of git://github.com/martinbrandenburg/linux

orangefs: integrate readahead cache changes from out-of-tree

The readahead cache has long been present as a compile

Merge tag 'for-hubcap-v4.9-readahead' of git://github.com/martinbrandenburg/linux

orangefs: integrate readahead cache changes from out-of-tree

The readahead cache has long been present as a compile time option to
OrangeFS. As it had not been tested in some time, it was disabled by
default. Recently, Walt Ligon started work reviving it, which eventually
culminated in the commit below to OrangeFS SVN.

r12519 | walt | 2016-07-13 14:32:42 -0400 (Wed, 13 Jul 2016) | 1 line
reintegrating readahead cache code

This cache is implemented almost entirely in userspace. There are a few
parameters exposed via sysfs, and the cache must be flushed after an
inode is released.

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# b6aa3922 08-Aug-2016 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>

Merge tag 'v4.8-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.8-rc1

* tag 'v4.8-rc1': (6093 commits)
Linux 4.8-rc1
block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf
target: iblock_execute_sync_cache() should use bio_set_op_at

Merge tag 'v4.8-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 4.8-rc1

* tag 'v4.8-rc1': (6093 commits)
Linux 4.8-rc1
block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf
target: iblock_execute_sync_cache() should use bio_set_op_attrs()
mm: make __swap_writepage() use bio_set_op_attrs()
block/mm: make bdev_ops->rw_page() take a bool for read/write
fs: return EPERM on immutable inode
ramoops: use persistent_ram_free() instead of kfree() for freeing prz
ramoops: use DT reserved-memory bindings
NTB: ntb_hw_intel: use local variable pdev
NTB: ntb_hw_intel: show BAR size in debugfs info
ntb_test: Add a selftest script for the NTB subsystem
ntb_perf: clear link_is_up flag when the link goes down.
ntb_pingpong: Add a debugfs file to get the ping count
ntb_tool: Add link status and files to debugfs
ntb_tool: Postpone memory window initialization for the user
ntb_perf: Wait for link before running test
ntb_perf: Return results by reading the run file
ntb_perf: Improve thread handling to increase robustness
ntb_perf: Schedule based on time not on performance
ntb_transport: Check the number of spads the hardware supports
...

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Revision tags: openbmc-4.4-20160804-1
# f716a85c 02-Aug-2016 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

- GCC plugin support by Emese Revfy from grsecurity, with a fixup from

Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

- GCC plugin support by Emese Revfy from grsecurity, with a fixup from
Kees Cook. The plugins are meant to be used for static analysis of
the kernel code. Two plugins are provided already.

- reduction of the gcc commandline by Arnd Bergmann.

- IS_ENABLED / IS_REACHABLE macro enhancements by Masahiro Yamada

- bin2c fix by Michael Tautschnig

- setlocalversion fix by Wolfram Sang

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
gcc-plugins: disable under COMPILE_TEST
kbuild: Abort build on bad stack protector flag
scripts: Fix size mismatch of kexec_purgatory_size
kbuild: make samples depend on headers_install
Kbuild: don't add obj tree in additional includes
Kbuild: arch: look for generated headers in obtree
Kbuild: always prefix objtree in LINUXINCLUDE
Kbuild: avoid duplicate include path
Kbuild: don't add ../../ to include path
vmlinux.lds.h: replace config_enabled() with IS_ENABLED()
kconfig.h: allow to use IS_{ENABLE,REACHABLE} in macro expansion
kconfig.h: use already defined macros for IS_REACHABLE() define
export.h: use __is_defined() to check if __KSYM_* is defined
kconfig.h: use __is_defined() to check if MODULE is defined
kbuild: setlocalversion: print error to STDERR
Add sancov plugin
Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin
GCC plugin infrastructure
Shared library support

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Revision tags: v4.4.16, v4.7, openbmc-4.4-20160722-1, openbmc-20160722-1, openbmc-20160713-1, v4.4.15, v4.6.4, v4.6.3, v4.4.14, v4.6.2, v4.4.13, openbmc-20160606-1, v4.6.1, v4.4.12
# 6b90bd4b 23-May-2016 Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>

GCC plugin infrastructure

This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from
grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and
building in a

GCC plugin infrastructure

This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from
grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and
building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too.
Currently the x86, arm, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins.

The directory of the gcc plugins is scripts/gcc-plugins. You can use a file or a directory
there. The plugins compile with these options:
* -fno-rtti: gcc is compiled with this option so the plugins must use it too
* -fno-exceptions: this is inherited from gcc too
* -fasynchronous-unwind-tables: this is inherited from gcc too
* -ggdb: it is useful for debugging a plugin (better backtrace on internal
errors)
* -Wno-narrowing: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (ipa-utils.h)
* -Wno-unused-variable: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (gcc_version
variable, plugin-version.h)

The infrastructure introduces a new Makefile target called gcc-plugins. It
supports all gcc versions from 4.5 to 6.0. The scripts/gcc-plugin.sh script
chooses the proper host compiler (gcc-4.7 can be built by either gcc or g++).
This script also checks the availability of the included headers in
scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h.

The gcc-common.h header contains frequently included headers for GCC plugins
and it has a compatibility layer for the supported gcc versions.

The gcc-generate-*-pass.h headers automatically generate the registration
structures for GIMPLE, SIMPLE_IPA, IPA and RTL passes.

Note that 'make clean' keeps the *.so files (only the distclean or mrproper
targets clean all) because they are needed for out-of-tree modules.

Based on work created by the PaX Team.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>

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