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<updated>2024-08-29T13:03:28+00:00</updated>
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<title>riscv: selftests: Remove mmap hint address checks</title>
<updated>2024-08-29T13:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charlie Jenkins</name>
<email>charlie@rivosinc.com</email>
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<published>2024-08-26T16:36:46+00:00</published>
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The mmap behavior that restricts the addresses returned by mmap caused
unexpected behavior, so get rid of the test cases that check that
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Fixes: 73d05262a2ca ("selftests: riscv: Generalize mm selftests")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240826-riscv_mmap-v1-2-cd8962afe47f@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-07-21-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-07-22T00:15:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-22T00:15:46+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - In the series "mm: Avoid possible overflows in dirty throttling" Jan
   Kara addresses a couple of issues in the writeback throttling code.
   These fixes are also targetted at -stable kernels.

 - Ryusuke Konishi's series "nilfs2: fix potential issues related to
   reserved inodes" does that. This should actually be in the
   mm-nonmm-stable tree, along with the many other nilfs2 patches. My
   bad.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series "mm: convert to
   folio_alloc_mpol()"

 - Kemeng Shi has sent some cleanups to the writeback code in the series
   "Add helper functions to remove repeated code and improve readability
   of cgroup writeback"

 - Kairui Song has made the swap code a little smaller and a little
   faster in the series "mm/swap: clean up and optimize swap cache
   index".

 - In the series "mm/memory: cleanly support zeropage in
   vm_insert_page*(), vm_map_pages*() and vmf_insert_mixed()" David
   Hildenbrand has reworked the rather sketchy handling of the use of
   the zeropage in MAP_SHARED mappings. I don't see any runtime effects
   here - more a cleanup/understandability/maintainablity thing.

 - Dev Jain has improved selftests/mm/va_high_addr_switch.c's handling
   of higher addresses, for aarch64. The (poorly named) series is
   "Restructure va_high_addr_switch".

 - The core TLB handling code gets some cleanups and possible slight
   optimizations in Bang Li's series "Add update_mmu_tlb_range() to
   simplify code".

 - Jane Chu has improved the handling of our
   fake-an-unrecoverable-memory-error testing feature MADV_HWPOISON in
   the series "Enhance soft hwpoison handling and injection".

 - Jeff Johnson has sent a billion patches everywhere to add
   MODULE_DESCRIPTION() to everything. Some landed in this pull.

 - In the series "mm: cleanup MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY mode", Kefeng Wang
   has simplified migration's use of hardware-offload memory copying.

 - Yosry Ahmed performs more folio API conversions in his series "mm:
   zswap: trivial folio conversions".

 - In the series "large folios swap-in: handle refault cases first",
   Chuanhua Han inches us forward in the handling of large pages in the
   swap code. This is a cleanup and optimization, working toward the end
   objective of full support of large folio swapin/out.

 - In the series "mm,swap: cleanup VMA based swap readahead window
   calculation", Huang Ying has contributed some cleanups and a possible
   fixlet to his VMA based swap readahead code.

 - In the series "add mTHP support for anonymous shmem" Baolin Wang has
   taught anonymous shmem mappings to use multisize THP. By default this
   is a no-op - users must opt in vis sysfs controls. Dramatic
   improvements in pagefault latency are realized.

 - David Hildenbrand has some cleanups to our remaining use of
   page_mapcount() in the series "fs/proc: move page_mapcount() to
   fs/proc/internal.h".

 - David also has some highmem accounting cleanups in the series
   "mm/highmem: don't track highmem pages manually".

 - Build-time fixes and cleanups from John Hubbard in the series
   "cleanups, fixes, and progress towards avoiding "make headers"".

 - Cleanups and consolidation of the core pagemap handling from Barry
   Song in the series "mm: introduce pmd|pte_needs_soft_dirty_wp helpers
   and utilize them".

 - Lance Yang's series "Reclaim lazyfree THP without splitting" has
   reduced the latency of the reclaim of pmd-mapped THPs under fairly
   common circumstances. A 10x speedup is seen in a microbenchmark.

   It does this by punting to aother CPU but I guess that's a win unless
   all CPUs are pegged.

 - hugetlb_cgroup cleanups from Xiu Jianfeng in the series
   "mm/hugetlb_cgroup: rework on cftypes".

 - Miaohe Lin's series "Some cleanups for memory-failure" does just that
   thing.

 - Someone other than SeongJae has developed a DAMON feature in Honggyu
   Kim's series "DAMON based tiered memory management for CXL memory".
   This adds DAMON features which may be used to help determine the
   efficiency of our placement of CXL/PCIe attached DRAM.

 - DAMON user API centralization and simplificatio work in SeongJae
   Park's series "mm/damon: introduce DAMON parameters online commit
   function".

 - In the series "mm: page_type, zsmalloc and page_mapcount_reset()"
   David Hildenbrand does some maintenance work on zsmalloc - partially
   modernizing its use of pageframe fields.

 - Kefeng Wang provides more folio conversions in the series "mm: remove
   page_maybe_dma_pinned() and page_mkclean()".

 - More cleanup from David Hildenbrand, this time in the series
   "mm/memory_hotplug: use PageOffline() instead of PageReserved() for
   !ZONE_DEVICE". It "enlightens memory hotplug more about PageOffline()
   pages" and permits the removal of some virtio-mem hacks.

 - Barry Song's series "mm: clarify folio_add_new_anon_rmap() and
   __folio_add_anon_rmap()" is a cleanup to the anon folio handling in
   preparation for mTHP (multisize THP) swapin.

 - Kefeng Wang's series "mm: improve clear and copy user folio"
   implements more folio conversions, this time in the area of large
   folio userspace copying.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon/maintaier-profile: document a mailing tool
   and community meetup series" tells people how to get better involved
   with other DAMON developers. From SeongJae Park.

 - A large series ("kmsan: Enable on s390") from Ilya Leoshkevich does
   that.

 - David Hildenbrand sends along more cleanups, this time against the
   migration code. The series is "mm/migrate: move NUMA hinting fault
   folio isolation + checks under PTL".

 - Jan Kara has found quite a lot of strangenesses and minor errors in
   the readahead code. He addresses this in the series "mm: Fix various
   readahead quirks".

 - SeongJae Park's series "selftests/damon: test DAMOS tried regions and
   {min,max}_nr_regions" adds features and addresses errors in DAMON's
   self testing code.

 - Gavin Shan has found a userspace-triggerable WARN in the pagecache
   code. The series "mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported
   by xarray" addresses this. The series is marked cc:stable.

 - Chengming Zhou's series "mm/ksm: cmp_and_merge_page() optimizations
   and cleanup" cleans up and slightly optimizes KSM.

 - Roman Gushchin has separated the memcg-v1 and memcg-v2 code - lots of
   code motion. The series (which also makes the memcg-v1 code
   Kconfigurable) are "mm: memcg: separate legacy cgroup v1 code and put
   under config option" and "mm: memcg: put cgroup v1-specific memcg
   data under CONFIG_MEMCG_V1"

 - Dan Schatzberg's series "Add swappiness argument to memory.reclaim"
   adds an additional feature to this cgroup-v2 control file.

 - The series "Userspace controls soft-offline pages" from Jiaqi Yan
   permits userspace to stop the kernel's automatic treatment of
   excessive correctable memory errors. In order to permit userspace to
   monitor and handle this situation.

 - Kefeng Wang's series "mm: migrate: support poison recover from
   migrate folio" teaches the kernel to appropriately handle migration
   from poisoned source folios rather than simply panicing.

 - SeongJae Park's series "Docs/damon: minor fixups and improvements"
   does those things.

 - In the series "mm/zsmalloc: change back to per-size_class lock"
   Chengming Zhou improves zsmalloc's scalability and memory
   utilization.

 - Vivek Kasireddy's series "mm/gup: Introduce memfd_pin_folios() for
   pinning memfd folios" makes the GUP code use FOLL_PIN rather than
   bare refcount increments. So these paes can first be moved aside if
   they reside in the movable zone or a CMA block.

 - Andrii Nakryiko has added a binary ioctl()-based API to
   /proc/pid/maps for much faster reading of vma information. The series
   is "query VMAs from /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps".

 - In the series "mm: introduce per-order mTHP split counters" Lance
   Yang improves the kernel's presentation of developer information
   related to multisize THP splitting.

 - Michael Ellerman has developed the series "Reimplement huge pages
   without hugepd on powerpc (8xx, e500, book3s/64)". This permits
   userspace to use all available huge page sizes.

 - In the series "revert unconditional slab and page allocator fault
   injection calls" Vlastimil Babka removes a performance-affecting and
   not very useful feature from slab fault injection.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-07-21-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (411 commits)
  mm/mglru: fix ineffective protection calculation
  mm/zswap: fix a white space issue
  mm/hugetlb: fix kernel NULL pointer dereference when migrating hugetlb folio
  mm/hugetlb: fix possible recursive locking detected warning
  mm/gup: clear the LRU flag of a page before adding to LRU batch
  mm/numa_balancing: teach mpol_to_str about the balancing mode
  mm: memcg1: convert charge move flags to unsigned long long
  alloc_tag: fix page_ext_get/page_ext_put sequence during page splitting
  lib: reuse page_ext_data() to obtain codetag_ref
  lib: add missing newline character in the warning message
  mm/mglru: fix overshooting shrinker memory
  mm/mglru: fix div-by-zero in vmpressure_calc_level()
  mm/kmemleak: replace strncpy() with strscpy()
  mm, page_alloc: put should_fail_alloc_page() back behing CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
  mm, slab: put should_failslab() back behind CONFIG_SHOULD_FAILSLAB
  mm: ignore data-race in __swap_writepage
  hugetlbfs: ensure generic_hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() returns higher address than mmap_min_addr
  mm: shmem: rename mTHP shmem counters
  mm: swap_state: use folio_alloc_mpol() in __read_swap_cache_async()
  mm/migrate: putback split folios when numa hint migration fails
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.11-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2024-07-20T16:11:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T16:11:27+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for various new ISA extensions:
     * The Zve32[xf] and Zve64[xfd] sub-extensios of the vector
       extension
     * Zimop and Zcmop for may-be-operations
     * The Zca, Zcf, Zcd and Zcb sub-extensions of the C extension
     * Zawrs

 - riscv,cpu-intc is now dtschema

 - A handful of performance improvements and cleanups to text patching

 - Support for memory hot{,un}plug

 - The highest user-allocatable virtual address is now visible in
   hwprobe

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.11-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (58 commits)
  riscv: lib: relax assembly constraints in hweight
  riscv: set trap vector earlier
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Zawrs extension to get-reg-list test
  KVM: riscv: Support guest wrs.nto
  riscv: hwprobe: export Zawrs ISA extension
  riscv: Add Zawrs support for spinlocks
  dt-bindings: riscv: Add Zawrs ISA extension description
  riscv: Provide a definition for 'pause'
  riscv: hwprobe: export highest virtual userspace address
  riscv: Improve sbi_ecall() code generation by reordering arguments
  riscv: Add tracepoints for SBI calls and returns
  riscv: Optimize crc32 with Zbc extension
  riscv: Enable DAX VMEMMAP optimization
  riscv: mm: Add support for ZONE_DEVICE
  virtio-mem: Enable virtio-mem for RISC-V
  riscv: Enable memory hotplugging for RISC-V
  riscv: mm: Take memory hotplug read-lock during kernel page table dump
  riscv: mm: Add memory hotplugging support
  riscv: mm: Add pfn_to_kaddr() implementation
  riscv: mm: Refactor create_linear_mapping_range() for memory hot add
  ...
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<entry>
<title>selftests: centralize -D_GNU_SOURCE= to CFLAGS in lib.mk</title>
<updated>2024-07-10T19:14:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Liaw</name>
<email>edliaw@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-25T22:34:45+00:00</published>
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Centralize the _GNU_SOURCE definition to CFLAGS in lib.mk.  Remove
redundant defines from Makefiles that import lib.mk.  Convert any usage of
"#define _GNU_SOURCE 1" to "#define _GNU_SOURCE".

This uses the form "-D_GNU_SOURCE=", which is equivalent to
"#define _GNU_SOURCE".

Otherwise using "-D_GNU_SOURCE" is equivalent to "-D_GNU_SOURCE=1" and
"#define _GNU_SOURCE 1", which is less commonly seen in source code and
would require many changes in selftests to avoid redefinition warnings.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240625223454.1586259-2-edliaw@google.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Liaw &lt;edliaw@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>riscv: selftests: Fix vsetivli args for clang</title>
<updated>2024-07-03T20:04:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charlie Jenkins</name>
<email>charlie@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-03T01:54:48+00:00</published>
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Clang does not support implicit LMUL in the vset* instruction sequences.
Introduce an explicit LMUL in the vsetivli instruction.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Fixes: 9d5328eeb185 ("riscv: selftests: Add signal handling vector tests")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240702-fix_sigreturn_test-v1-1-485f88a80612@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>selftest: run vector prctl test for ZVE32X</title>
<updated>2024-05-30T21:33:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Chiu</name>
<email>andy.chiu@sifive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-09T16:26:58+00:00</published>
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The minimal requirement for running Vector subextension on Linux is
ZVE32X. So change the test accordingly to run prctl as long as it find
it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu &lt;andy.chiu@sifive.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240510-zve-detection-v5-8-0711bdd26c12@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>riscv: selftests: Add signal handling vector tests</title>
<updated>2024-05-22T23:12:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charlie Jenkins</name>
<email>charlie@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-03T23:50:29+00:00</published>
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Add two tests to check vector save/restore when a signal is received
during a vector routine. One test ensures that a value is not clobbered
during signal handling. The other verifies that vector registers
modified in the signal handler are properly reflected when the signal
handling is complete.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Chiu &lt;andy.chiu@sifive.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andy Chiu &lt;andy.chiu@sifive.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240403-vector_sigreturn_tests-v1-1-2e68b7a3b8d7@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv: selftests: Add hwprobe binaries to .gitignore</title>
<updated>2024-05-22T23:12:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Charlie Jenkins</name>
<email>charlie@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-25T19:58:03+00:00</published>
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The cbo and which-cpu hwprobe selftests leave their artifacts in the
kernel tree and end up being tracked by git. Add the binaries to the
hwprobe selftest .gitignore so this no longer happens.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt;
Fixes: a29e2a48afe3 ("RISC-V: selftests: Add CBO tests")
Fixes: ef7d6abb2cf5 ("RISC-V: selftests: Add which-cpus hwprobe test")
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240425-gitignore_hwprobe_artifacts-v1-1-dfc5a20da469@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RISC-V: selftests: cbo: Ensure asm operands match constraints, take 2</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T17:21:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Jones</name>
<email>ajones@ventanamicro.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-22T13:47:28+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Commit 0de65288d75f ("RISC-V: selftests: cbo: Ensure asm operands
match constraints") attempted to ensure MK_CBO() would always
provide to a compile-time constant when given a constant, but
cpu_to_le32() isn't necessarily going to do that. Switch to manually
shifting the bytes, when needed, to finally get this right.

Reported-by: Woodrow Shen &lt;woodrow.shen@sifive.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABquHATcBTUwfLpd9sPObBgNobqQKEAZ2yxk+TWSpyO5xvpXpg@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: a29e2a48afe3 ("RISC-V: selftests: Add CBO tests")
Fixes: 0de65288d75f ("RISC-V: selftests: cbo: Ensure asm operands match constraints")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240322134728.151255-2-ajones@ventanamicro.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge patch series "riscv: mm: Extend mappable memory up to hint address"</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T17:17:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
<email>palmer@rivosinc.com</email>
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<published>2024-03-15T17:17:34+00:00</published>
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Charlie Jenkins &lt;charlie@rivosinc.com&gt; says:

On riscv, mmap currently returns an address from the largest address
space that can fit entirely inside of the hint address. This makes it
such that the hint address is almost never returned. This patch raises
the mappable area up to and including the hint address. This allows mmap
to often return the hint address, which allows a performance improvement
over searching for a valid address as well as making the behavior more
similar to other architectures.

Note that a previous patch introduced stronger semantics compared to
other architectures for riscv mmap. On riscv, mmap will not use bits in
the upper bits of the virtual address depending on the hint address. On
other architectures, a random address is returned in the address space
requested. On all architectures the hint address will be returned if it
is available. This allows riscv applications to configure how many bits
in the virtual address should be left empty. This has the two benefits
of being able to request address spaces that are smaller than the
default and doesn't require the application to know the page table
layout of riscv.

* b4-shazam-merge:
  docs: riscv: Define behavior of mmap
  selftests: riscv: Generalize mm selftests
  riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130-use_mmap_hint_address-v3-0-8a655cfa8bcb@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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