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2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
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>
2016-03-18fix Christoph's email addressesChristoph Lameter1-1/+1
There are various email addresses for me throughout the kernel. Use the one that will always be valid. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-03mm: show quicklist usage in /proc/meminfoKOSAKI Motohiro1-0/+7
Quicklists can consume several GB of memory. We should provide a means of monitoring this. After this patch is applied, /proc/meminfo will output the following: % cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 7715392 kB MemFree: 5401600 kB Buffers: 80384 kB Cached: 300800 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 235584 kB Inactive: 262656 kB SwapTotal: 2031488 kB SwapFree: 2031488 kB Dirty: 3520 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 117696 kB Mapped: 38528 kB Slab: 1589952 kB SReclaimable: 23104 kB SUnreclaim: 1566848 kB PageTables: 14656 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 5889152 kB Committed_AS: 393152 kB VmallocTotal: 17592177655808 kB VmallocUsed: 29056 kB VmallocChunk: 17592177626432 kB Quicklists: 130944 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 262144 kB Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Keiichiro Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-23quicklists: do not release off node pages earlyChristoph Lameter1-8/+0
quicklists must keep even off node pages on the quicklists until the TLB flush has been completed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07Quicklists for page table pagesChristoph Lameter1-0/+94
On x86_64 this cuts allocation overhead for page table pages down to a fraction (kernel compile / editing load. TSC based measurement of times spend in each function): no quicklist pte_alloc 1569048 4.3s(401ns/2.7us/179.7us) pmd_alloc 780988 2.1s(337ns/2.7us/86.1us) pud_alloc 780072 2.2s(424ns/2.8us/300.6us) pgd_alloc 260022 1s(920ns/4us/263.1us) quicklist: pte_alloc 452436 573.4ms(8ns/1.3us/121.1us) pmd_alloc 196204 174.5ms(7ns/889ns/46.1us) pud_alloc 195688 172.4ms(7ns/881ns/151.3us) pgd_alloc 65228 9.8ms(8ns/150ns/6.1us) pgd allocations are the most complex and there we see the most dramatic improvement (may be we can cut down the amount of pgds cached somewhat?). But even the pte allocations still see a doubling of performance. 1. Proven code from the IA64 arch. The method used here has been fine tuned for years and is NUMA aware. It is based on the knowledge that accesses to page table pages are sparse in nature. Taking a page off the freelists instead of allocating a zeroed pages allows a reduction of number of cachelines touched in addition to getting rid of the slab overhead. So performance improves. This is particularly useful if pgds contain standard mappings. We can save on the teardown and setup of such a page if we have some on the quicklists. This includes avoiding lists operations that are otherwise necessary on alloc and free to track pgds. 2. Light weight alternative to use slab to manage page size pages Slab overhead is significant and even page allocator use is pretty heavy weight. The use of a per cpu quicklist means that we touch only two cachelines for an allocation. There is no need to access the page_struct (unless arch code needs to fiddle around with it). So the fast past just means bringing in one cacheline at the beginning of the page. That same cacheline may then be used to store the page table entry. Or a second cacheline may be used if the page table entry is not in the first cacheline of the page. The current code will zero the page which means touching 32 cachelines (assuming 128 byte). We get down from 32 to 2 cachelines in the fast path. 3. x86_64 gets lightweight page table page management. This will allow x86_64 arch code to faster repopulate pgds and other page table entries. The list operations for pgds are reduced in the same way as for i386 to the point where a pgd is allocated from the page allocator and when it is freed back to the page allocator. A pgd can pass through the quicklists without having to be reinitialized. 64 Consolidation of code from multiple arches So far arches have their own implementation of quicklist management. This patch moves that feature into the core allowing an easier maintenance and consistent management of quicklists. Page table pages have the characteristics that they are typically zero or in a known state when they are freed. This is usually the exactly same state as needed after allocation. So it makes sense to build a list of freed page table pages and then consume the pages already in use first. Those pages have already been initialized correctly (thus no need to zero them) and are likely already cached in such a way that the MMU can use them most effectively. Page table pages are used in a sparse way so zeroing them on allocation is not too useful. Such an implementation already exits for ia64. Howver, that implementation did not support constructors and destructors as needed by i386 / x86_64. It also only supported a single quicklist. The implementation here has constructor and destructor support as well as the ability for an arch to specify how many quicklists are needed. Quicklists are defined by an arch defining CONFIG_QUICKLIST. If more than one quicklist is necessary then we can define NR_QUICK for additional lists. F.e. i386 needs two and thus has config NR_QUICK int default 2 If an arch has requested quicklist support then pages can be allocated from the quicklist (or from the page allocator if the quicklist is empty) via: quicklist_alloc(<quicklist-nr>, <gfpflags>, <constructor>) Page table pages can be freed using: quicklist_free(<quicklist-nr>, <destructor>, <page>) Pages must have a definite state after allocation and before they are freed. If no constructor is specified then pages will be zeroed on allocation and must be zeroed before they are freed. If a constructor is used then the constructor will establish a definite page state. F.e. the i386 and x86_64 pgd constructors establish certain mappings. Constructors and destructors can also be used to track the pages. i386 and x86_64 use a list of pgds in order to be able to dynamically update standard mappings. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>