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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>
2016-07-21x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation codeIngo Molnar1-1/+1
So the reserve_ebda_region() code has accumulated a number of problems over the years that make it really difficult to read and understand: - The calculation of 'lowmem' and 'ebda_addr' is an unnecessarily interleaved mess of first lowmem, then ebda_addr, then lowmem tweaks... - 'lowmem' here means 'super low mem' - i.e. 16-bit addressable memory. In other parts of the x86 code 'lowmem' means 32-bit addressable memory... This makes it super confusing to read. - It does not help at all that we have various memory range markers, half of which are 'start of range', half of which are 'end of range' - but this crucial property is not obvious in the naming at all ... gave me a headache trying to understand all this. - Also, the 'ebda_addr' name sucks: it highlights that it's an address (which is obvious, all values here are addresses!), while it does not highlight that it's the _start_ of the EBDA region ... - 'BIOS_LOWMEM_KILOBYTES' says a lot of things, except that this is the only value that is a pointer to a value, not a memory range address! - The function name itself is a misnomer: it says 'reserve_ebda_region()' while its main purpose is to reserve all the firmware ROM typically between 640K and 1MB, while the 'EBDA' part is only a small part of that ... - Likewise, the paravirt quirk flag name 'ebda_search' is misleading as well: this too should be about whether to reserve firmware areas in the paravirt case. - In fact thinking about this as 'end of RAM' is confusing: what this function *really* wants to reserve is firmware data and code areas! Once the thinking is inverted from a mixed 'ram' and 'reserved firmware area' notion to a pure 'reserved area' notion everything becomes a lot clearer. To improve all this rewrite the whole code (without changing the logic): - Firstly invert the naming from 'lowmem end' to 'BIOS reserved area start' and propagate this concept through all the variable names and constants. BIOS_RAM_SIZE_KB_PTR // was: BIOS_LOWMEM_KILOBYTES BIOS_START_MIN // was: INSANE_CUTOFF ebda_start // was: ebda_addr bios_start // was: lowmem BIOS_START_MAX // was: LOWMEM_CAP - Then clean up the name of the function itself by renaming it to reserve_bios_regions() and renaming the ::ebda_search paravirt flag to ::reserve_bios_regions. - Fix up all the comments (fix typos), harmonize and simplify their formulation and remove comments that become unnecessary due to the much better naming all around. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-13x86/platform: Remove unused get_bios_ebda_length() functionGuenter Roeck1-21/+0
get_bios_ebda_length() uses min_t() without including linux/kernel.h. This may result in build errors with some configurations. Since the function is not used anywhere in the kernel, let's just drop it. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459558314-5625-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2011-04-30x86: Better comments for get_bios_ebda()Mike Waychison1-2/+5
Make the comments a bit clearer for get_bios_ebda so that it actually tells us what it is returning. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-30x86: get_bios_ebda_length()Mike Waychison1-0/+21
Add a wrapper routine that tells us the length of the EBDA if it is present. This guy also ensures that the returned length doesn't let the EBDA run past the 640KiB mark. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-23x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guardsH. Peter Anvin1-3/+3
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-23x86, um: ... and asm-x86 moveAl Viro1-0/+36
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>