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  2. Jun 05, 2023
  3. Sep 07, 2022
  4. Apr 06, 2022
    • tangmeng's avatar
      kernel/do_mount_initrd: move real_root_dev sysctls to its own file · d772cc2c
      tangmeng authored
      
      kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty
      dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain.
      
      To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places
      where they actually belong.  The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to
      know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we
      just care about the core logic.
      
      All filesystem syctls now get reviewed by fs folks. This commit
      follows the commit of fs, move the real_root_dev sysctl to its own file,
      kernel/do_mount_initrd.c.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatartangmeng <tangmeng@uniontech.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
      d772cc2c
  5. Jul 31, 2020
  6. Jul 30, 2020
  7. Jun 19, 2020
    • Tom Rini's avatar
      initrd: Remove erroneous comment · eacb0c10
      Tom Rini authored
      
      Most architectures have been passing the location of an initrd via the
      initrd= option since their inception.  Remove the comment as it's both
      wrong and unrelated to the commit that introduced it.
      
      For a bit more context, I assume there's been some confusion between
      "initrd" being a keyword in things like extlinux.conf and also that for
      quite a long time now initrd information is passed via device tree and
      not the command line on relevant architectures. But it's still true that
      it's been a valid command line option to the kernel since the 90s. It's
      just the case that in 2018 the code was consolidated from under arch/
      and in to this file.
      
       [ bp: Move the context clarification up into the commit message proper. ]
      
      Fixes: 694cfd87 ("x86/setup: Add an initrdmem= option to specify initrd physical address")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200619143056.24538-1-trini@konsulko.com
      eacb0c10
  8. Apr 27, 2020
    • Ronald G. Minnich's avatar
      x86/setup: Add an initrdmem= option to specify initrd physical address · 694cfd87
      Ronald G. Minnich authored
      
      Add the initrdmem option:
      
        initrdmem=ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
      
      which is used to specify the physical address of the initrd, almost
      always an address in FLASH. Also add code for x86 to use the existing
      phys_init_start and phys_init_size variables in the kernel.
      
      This is useful in cases where a kernel and an initrd is placed in FLASH,
      but there is no firmware file system structure in the FLASH.
      
      One such situation occurs when unused FLASH space on UEFI systems has
      been reclaimed by, e.g., taking it from the Management Engine. For
      example, on many systems, the ME is given half the FLASH part; not only
      is 2.75M of an 8M part unused; but 10.75M of a 16M part is unused. This
      space can be used to contain an initrd, but need to tell Linux where it
      is.
      
      This space is "raw": due to, e.g., UEFI limitations: it can not be added
      to UEFI firmware volumes without rebuilding UEFI from source or writing
      a UEFI device driver. It can be referenced only as a physical address
      and size.
      
      At the same time, if a kernel can be "netbooted" or loaded from GRUB or
      syslinux, the option of not using the physical address specification
      should be available.
      
      Then, it is easy to boot the kernel and provide an initrd; or boot the
      the kernel and let it use the initrd in FLASH. In practice, this has
      proven to be very helpful when integrating Linux into FLASH on x86.
      
      Hence, the most flexible and convenient path is to enable the initrdmem
      command line option in a way that it is the last choice tried.
      
      For example, on the DigitalLoggers Atomic Pi, an image into FLASH can be
      burnt in with a built-in command line which includes:
      
        initrdmem=0xff968000,0x200000
      
      which specifies a location and size.
      
       [ bp: Massage commit message, make it passive. ]
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRonald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP6exYLK11rhreX=6QPyDQmW7wPHsKNEFtXE47pjx41xS6O7-A@mail.gmail.com
      Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426011021.1cskg0AGd%akpm@linux-foundation.org
      694cfd87
  9. Dec 12, 2019
  10. Dec 20, 2018
  11. Nov 26, 2018
  12. Nov 07, 2018
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      block: remove dead elevator code · a1ce35fa
      Jens Axboe authored
      
      This removes a bunch of core and elevator related code. On the core
      front, we remove anything related to queue running, draining,
      initialization, plugging, and congestions. We also kill anything
      related to request allocation, merging, retrieval, and completion.
      
      Remove any checking for single queue IO schedulers, as they no
      longer exist. This means we can also delete a bunch of code related
      to request issue, adding, completion, etc - and all the SQ related
      ops and helpers.
      
      Also kill the load_default_modules(), as all that did was provide
      for a way to load the default single queue elevator.
      
      Tested-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      a1ce35fa
  13. Aug 22, 2018
  14. Apr 02, 2018
  15. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      
      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: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  16. Jan 21, 2016
  17. May 01, 2013
  18. Jan 19, 2013
  19. Jan 18, 2013
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      init, block: try to load default elevator module early during boot · bb813f4c
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      This patch adds default module loading and uses it to load the default
      block elevator.  During boot, it's called right after initramfs or
      initrd is made available and right before control is passed to
      userland.  This ensures that as long as the modules are available in
      the usual places in initramfs, initrd or the root filesystem, the
      default modules are loaded as soon as possible.
      
      This will replace the on-demand elevator module loading from elevator
      init path.
      
      v2: Fixed build breakage when !CONFIG_BLOCK.  Reported by kbuild test
          robot.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
      Cc: Fengguang We <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      bb813f4c
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