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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2026-07-31T02:40:31+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS by passing memdesc_flags_t by pointer</title>
<updated>2026-07-31T02:40:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hui Zhu</name>
<email>zhuhui@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-30T07:08:10+00:00</published>
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KCSAN reports a data race between page_to_nid()/folio_pgdat() reading
page-&gt;flags and folio_trylock()/folio_lock() concurrently doing
test_and_set_bit_lock(PG_locked, ...) on the same word, e.g.:

  BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __lruvec_stat_mod_folio / shmem_get_folio_gfp

The race is benign: nid/zone bits are set once at page init and never
overlap with PG_locked.  However, ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS() inside
memdesc_nid/zonenum() was checking a by-value copy of the flags word, not
the live page-&gt;flags, so it failed to annotate the real access.

Change memdesc_nid(), memdesc_zonenum(), memdesc_section(), and
memdesc_is_zone_device() to take a const memdesc_flags_t * and update all
callers to pass &amp;page-&gt;flags / &amp;folio-&gt;flags, so ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS()
operates on the actual shared word.

Guard the ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_BITS() call in memdesc_zonenum() under
ZONES_WIDTH != 0 to avoid a zero-mask check on configs where the zone
field is absent.  memdesc_section() needs no such guard, since
SECTIONS_WIDTH is never 0 wherever SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS is defined. 
Under CONFIG_NUMA=n, memdesc_nid() itself is stubbed to "return 0" instead
of reading page-&gt;flags, since NODES_MASK is 0 and the check can never
fire; page_to_nid()/folio_nid() now just call memdesc_nid()
unconditionally and rely on that stub, instead of duplicating the
CONFIG_NUMA split at each call site.

[zhuhui@kylinos.cn: v11]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260708083308.747930-1-hui.zhu@linux.dev
[ziy@nvidia.com: build fix]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/DJSGLP9VFLRI.355AAWR2VHIEL@nvidia.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630070810.470763-1-hui.zhu@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu &lt;zhuhui@kylinos.cn&gt;
Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in memory management header files</title>
<updated>2026-07-29T04:11:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-19T13:18:30+00:00</published>
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While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that
only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.  This can be very
confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when
dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. 
So let's standardize now on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by
the compilers.

This is a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260619131830.229804-1-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Axel Rasmussen &lt;axelrasmussen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yuanchu Xie &lt;yuanchu@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: convert page_to_section() to memdesc_section()</title>
<updated>2025-09-13T23:55:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-05T17:22:52+00:00</published>
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Pass in the memdesc_flags_t instead of a pointer to the page.  This will
allow us to remove a few conversions to struct page in upcoming patches.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-3-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: implement for_each_valid_pfn() for CONFIG_FLATMEM</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T06:50:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw@amazon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-23T13:33:38+00:00</published>
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In the FLATMEM case, the default pfn_valid() just checks that the PFN is
within the range [ ARCH_PFN_OFFSET ..  ARCH_PFN_OFFSET + max_mapnr ).

The for_each_valid_pfn() function can therefore be a simple for() loop
using those as min/max respectively.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250423133821.789413-3-dwmw2@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ruihan Li &lt;lrh2000@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, mm: set max_mapnr when allocating memory map for FLATMEM</title>
<updated>2025-03-18T05:06:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-13T13:49:59+00:00</published>
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max_mapnr is essentially the size of the memory map for systems that use
FLATMEM. There is no reason to calculate it in each and every architecture
when it's anyway calculated in alloc_node_mem_map().

Drop setting of max_mapnr from architecture code and set it once in
alloc_node_mem_map().

While on it, move definition of mem_map and max_mapnr to mm/mm_init.c so
there won't be two copies for MMU and !MMU variants.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250313135003.836600-10-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;	[x86]
Tested-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren (csky) &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Russel King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>asm-generic: add an optional pfn_valid check to page_to_phys</title>
<updated>2024-10-28T21:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-23T05:36:37+00:00</published>
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page_to_pfn is usually implemented by pointer arithmetics on the memory
map, which means that bogus input can lead to even more bogus output.

Powerpc had a pfn_valid check on the intermediate pfn in the page_to_phys
implementation when CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is defined, which seems
generally useful, so add that to the generic version.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic: provide generic page_to_phys and phys_to_page implementations</title>
<updated>2024-10-28T21:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-23T05:36:36+00:00</published>
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page_to_phys is duplicated by all architectures, and from some strange
reason placed in &lt;asm/io.h&gt; where it doesn't fit at all.

phys_to_page is only provided by a few architectures despite having a lot
of open coded users.

Provide generic versions in &lt;asm-generic/memory_model.h&gt; to make these
helpers more easily usable.

Note with this patch powerpc loses the CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL pfn_valid
check.  It will be added back in a generic version later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for FLATMEM</title>
<updated>2023-02-10T00:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (IBM)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-29T12:42:35+00:00</published>
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Every architecture that supports FLATMEM memory model defines its own
version of pfn_valid() that essentially compares a pfn to max_mapnr.

Use mips/powerpc version implemented as static inline as a generic
implementation of pfn_valid() and drop its per-architecture definitions.

[rppt@kernel.org: fix the generic pfn_valid()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y9lg7R1Yd931C+y5@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230129124235.209895-5-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;		[csky]
Acked-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;	[LoongArch]
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;	[OpenRISC]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;	[powerpc]
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: WANG Xuerui &lt;kernel@xen0n.name&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM</title>
<updated>2021-06-29T17:53:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T02:42:52+00:00</published>
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There are no architectures that support DISCONTIGMEM left.

Remove the configuration option and the dead code it was guarding in the
generic memory management code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-6-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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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 &amp; 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 &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;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 &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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