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<title>kernel/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu, branch linux-5.1.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.</subtitle>
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<updated>2019-02-11T13:28:56Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Track AVX-512 usage of tasks</title>
<updated>2019-02-11T13:28:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Aubrey Li</name>
<email>aubrey.li@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-17T18:38:20Z</published>
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User space tools which do automated task placement need information
about AVX-512 usage of tasks, because AVX-512 usage could cause core
turbo frequency drop and impact the running task on the sibling CPU.

The XSAVE hardware structure has bits that indicate when valid state
is present in registers unique to AVX-512 use.  Use these bits to
indicate when AVX-512 has been in use and add per-task AVX-512 state
timestamp tracking to context switch.

Well-written AVX-512 applications are expected to clear the AVX-512
state when not actively using AVX-512 registers, so the tracking
mechanism is imprecise and can theoretically miss AVX-512 usage during
context switch. But it has been measured to be precise enough to be
useful under real-world workloads like tensorflow and linpack.

If higher precision is required, suggest user space tools to use the
PMU-based mechanisms in combination.

Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li &lt;aubrey.li@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: aubrey.li@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117183822.31333-1-aubrey.li@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Get rid of CONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ</title>
<updated>2019-01-22T13:16:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-17T23:05:40Z</published>
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This was a "workaround" to probe for binutils which could generate
FXSAVEQ, apparently gas with min version 2.16. In the meantime, minimal
required gas version is 2.20 so all those workarounds for older binutils
can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117232408.GH5023@zn.tnic
</content>
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<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()</title>
<updated>2018-12-04T11:37:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-29T15:02:10Z</published>
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There is one user of __kernel_fpu_begin() and before invoking it,
it invokes preempt_disable(). So it could invoke kernel_fpu_begin()
right away. The 32bit version of arch_efi_call_virt_setup() and
arch_efi_call_virt_teardown() does this already.

The comment above *kernel_fpu*() claims that before invoking
__kernel_fpu_begin() preemption should be disabled and that KVM is a
good example of doing it. Well, KVM doesn't do that since commit

  f775b13eedee2 ("x86,kvm: move qemu/guest FPU switching out to vcpu_run")

so it is not an example anymore.

With EFI gone as the last user of __kernel_fpu_{begin|end}(), both can
be made static and not exported anymore.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolai Stange &lt;nstange@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kvm ML &lt;kvm@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181129150210.2k4mawt37ow6c2vq@linutronix.de
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Add might_fault() to user_insn()</title>
<updated>2018-12-03T18:15:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-28T22:20:11Z</published>
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Every user of user_insn() passes an user memory pointer to this macro.

Add might_fault() to user_insn() so we can spot users which are using
this macro in sections where page faulting is not allowed.

 [ bp: Space it out to make it more visible. ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kvm ML &lt;kvm@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181128222035.2996-6-bigeasy@linutronix.de
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Use the correct exception table macro in the XSTATE_OP wrapper</title>
<updated>2018-11-27T16:55:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-27T13:32:00Z</published>
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Commit

  75045f77f7a7 ("x86/extable: Introduce _ASM_EXTABLE_UA for uaccess fixups")

incorrectly replaced the fixup entry for XSTATE_OP with a user-#PF-only
fixup. XRSTOR can also raise #GP if the xstate content is invalid,
and _ASM_EXTABLE_UA doesn't expect that. Change this fixup back to
_ASM_EXTABLE so that #GP gets fixed up.

Fixes: 75045f77f7a7 ("x86/extable: Introduce _ASM_EXTABLE_UA for uaccess fixups")
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181126165957.xhsyu2dhyy45mrjo@linutronix.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127133200.38322-1-jannh@google.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-10-23T12:08:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-23T12:08:53Z</published>
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Pull locking and misc x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lots of changes in this cycle - in part because locking/core attracted
  a number of related x86 low level work which was easier to handle in a
  single tree:

   - Linux Kernel Memory Consistency Model updates (Alan Stern, Paul E.
     McKenney, Andrea Parri)

   - lockdep scalability improvements and micro-optimizations (Waiman
     Long)

   - rwsem improvements (Waiman Long)

   - spinlock micro-optimization (Matthew Wilcox)

   - qspinlocks: Provide a liveness guarantee (more fairness) on x86.
     (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add support for relative references in jump tables on arm64, x86
     and s390 to optimize jump labels (Ard Biesheuvel, Heiko Carstens)

   - Be a lot less permissive on weird (kernel address) uaccess faults
     on x86: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses (Jann
     Horn)

   - macrofy x86 asm statements to un-confuse the GCC inliner. (Nadav
     Amit)

   - ... and a handful of other smaller changes as well"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  locking/lockdep: Make global debug_locks* variables read-mostly
  locking/lockdep: Fix debug_locks off performance problem
  locking/pvqspinlock: Extend node size when pvqspinlock is configured
  locking/qspinlock_stat: Count instances of nested lock slowpaths
  locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness guarantee
  x86/asm: 'Simplify' GEN_*_RMWcc() macros
  locking/qspinlock: Rework some comments
  locking/qspinlock: Re-order code
  locking/lockdep: Remove duplicated 'lock_class_ops' percpu array
  x86/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
  futex: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep
  locking/lockdep: Make class-&gt;ops a percpu counter and move it under CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
  x86/jump-labels: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/cpufeature: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/extable: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/paravirt: Work around GCC inlining bugs when compiling paravirt ops
  x86/bug: Macrofy the BUG table section handling, to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/alternatives: Macrofy lock prefixes to work around GCC inlining bugs
  x86/refcount: Work around GCC inlining bug
  x86/objtool: Use asm macros to work around GCC inlining bugs
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Fix i486 + no387 boot crash by only saving FPU registers on context switch if there is an FPU</title>
<updated>2018-10-17T10:30:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-16T20:25:25Z</published>
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Booting an i486 with "no387 nofxsr" ends with with the following crash:

   math_emulate: 0060:c101987d
   Kernel panic - not syncing: Math emulation needed in kernel

on the first context switch in user land.

The reason is that copy_fpregs_to_fpstate() tries FNSAVE which does not work
as the FPU is turned off.

This bug was introduced in:

  f1c8cd0176078 ("x86/fpu: Change fpu-&gt;fpregs_active users to fpu-&gt;fpstate_active")

Add a check for X86_FEATURE_FPU before trying to save FPU registers (we
have such a check in switch_fpu_finish() already).

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f1c8cd0176078 ("x86/fpu: Change fpu-&gt;fpregs_active users to fpu-&gt;fpstate_active")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181016202525.29437-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>x86/extable: Introduce _ASM_EXTABLE_UA for uaccess fixups</title>
<updated>2018-09-03T13:12:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-28T20:14:18Z</published>
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Currently, most fixups for attempting to access userspace memory are
handled using _ASM_EXTABLE, which is also used for various other types of
fixups (e.g. safe MSR access, IRET failures, and a bunch of other things).
In order to make it possible to add special safety checks to uaccess fixups
(in particular, checking whether the fault address is actually in
userspace), introduce a new exception table handler ex_handler_uaccess()
and wire it up to all the user access fixups (excluding ones that
already use _ASM_EXTABLE_EX).

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828201421.157735-5-jannh@google.com

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32</title>
<updated>2018-01-16T01:56:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T00:03:33Z</published>
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Among the existing architecture specific versions of
copy_siginfo_to_user32 there are several different implementation
problems.  Some architectures fail to handle all of the cases in in
the siginfo union.  Some architectures perform a blind copy of the
siginfo union when the si_code is negative.  A blind copy suggests the
data is expected to be in 32bit siginfo format, which means that
receiving such a signal via signalfd won't work, or that the data is
in 64bit siginfo and the code is copying nonsense to userspace.

Create a single instance of copy_siginfo_to_user32 that all of the
architectures can share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in
the siginfo union correctly, with the assumption that siginfo is
stored internally to the kernel is 64bit siginfo format.

A special case is made for x86 x32 format.  This is needed as presence
of both x32 and ia32 on x86_64 results in two different 32bit signal
formats.  By allowing this small special case there winds up being
exactly one code base that needs to be maintained between all of the
architectures.  Vastly increasing the testing base and the chances of
finding bugs.

As the x86 copy of copy_siginfo_to_user32 the call of the x86
signal_compat_build_tests were moved into sigaction_compat_abi, so
that they will keep running.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</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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