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<title>crypto: sha - split sha.h into sha1.h and sha2.h</title>
<updated>2020-11-20T03:45:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-13T05:20:21+00:00</published>
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Currently &lt;crypto/sha.h&gt; contains declarations for both SHA-1 and SHA-2,
and &lt;crypto/sha3.h&gt; contains declarations for SHA-3.

This organization is inconsistent, but more importantly SHA-1 is no
longer considered to be cryptographically secure.  So to the extent
possible, SHA-1 shouldn't be grouped together with any of the other SHA
versions, and usage of it should be phased out.

Therefore, split &lt;crypto/sha.h&gt; into two headers &lt;crypto/sha1.h&gt; and
&lt;crypto/sha2.h&gt;, and make everyone explicitly specify whether they want
the declarations for SHA-1, SHA-2, or both.

This avoids making the SHA-1 declarations visible to files that don't
want anything to do with SHA-1.  It also prepares for potentially moving
sha1.h into a new insecure/ or dangerous/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Currently &lt;crypto/sha.h&gt; contains declarations for both SHA-1 and SHA-2,
and &lt;crypto/sha3.h&gt; contains declarations for SHA-3.

This organization is inconsistent, but more importantly SHA-1 is no
longer considered to be cryptographically secure.  So to the extent
possible, SHA-1 shouldn't be grouped together with any of the other SHA
versions, and usage of it should be phased out.

Therefore, split &lt;crypto/sha.h&gt; into two headers &lt;crypto/sha1.h&gt; and
&lt;crypto/sha2.h&gt;, and make everyone explicitly specify whether they want
the declarations for SHA-1, SHA-2, or both.

This avoids making the SHA-1 declarations visible to files that don't
want anything to do with SHA-1.  It also prepares for potentially moving
sha1.h into a new insecure/ or dangerous/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/: fix repeated words in comments</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:10:28+00:00</published>
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Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.

Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word.  Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the".  Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.

Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word.  Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the".  Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Rename frame.h -&gt; objtool.h</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T15:43:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Thierry</name>
<email>jthierry@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-04T15:30:25+00:00</published>
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Header frame.h is getting more code annotations to help objtool analyze
object files.

Rename the file to objtool.h.

[ jpoimboe: add objtool.h to MAINTAINERS ]

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry &lt;jthierry@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
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Header frame.h is getting more code annotations to help objtool analyze
object files.

Rename the file to objtool.h.

[ jpoimboe: add objtool.h to MAINTAINERS ]

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry &lt;jthierry@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kexec: add machine_kexec_post_load()</title>
<updated>2020-01-08T16:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@soleen.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-04T15:59:15+00:00</published>
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It is the same as machine_kexec_prepare(), but is called after segments are
loaded. This way, can do processing work with already loaded relocation
segments. One such example is arm64: it has to have segments loaded in
order to create a page table, but it cannot do it during kexec time,
because at that time allocations won't be possible anymore.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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It is the same as machine_kexec_prepare(), but is called after segments are
loaded. This way, can do processing work with already loaded relocation
segments. One such example is arm64: it has to have segments loaded in
order to create a page table, but it cannot do it during kexec time,
because at that time allocations won't be possible anymore.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kexec: quiet down kexec reboot</title>
<updated>2020-01-08T16:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@soleen.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-04T15:59:14+00:00</published>
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Here is a regular kexec command sequence and output:
=====
$ kexec --reuse-cmdline -i --load Image
$ kexec -e
[  161.342002] kexec_core: Starting new kernel

Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login:
=====

Even when "quiet" kernel parameter is specified, "kexec_core: Starting
new kernel" is printed.

This message has  KERN_EMERG level, but there is no emergency, it is a
normal kexec operation, so quiet it down to appropriate KERN_NOTICE.

Machines that have slow console baud rate benefit from less output.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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Here is a regular kexec command sequence and output:
=====
$ kexec --reuse-cmdline -i --load Image
$ kexec -e
[  161.342002] kexec_core: Starting new kernel

Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login:
=====

Even when "quiet" kernel parameter is specified, "kexec_core: Starting
new kernel" is printed.

This message has  KERN_EMERG level, but there is no emergency, it is a
normal kexec operation, so quiet it down to appropriate KERN_NOTICE.

Machines that have slow console baud rate benefit from less output.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kexec: bail out upon SIGKILL when allocating memory.</title>
<updated>2019-09-26T00:51:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-25T23:47:33+00:00</published>
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syzbot found that a thread can stall for minutes inside kexec_load() after
that thread was killed by SIGKILL [1].  It turned out that the reproducer
was trying to allocate 2408MB of memory using kimage_alloc_page() from
kimage_load_normal_segment().  Let's check for SIGKILL before doing memory
allocation.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a0e3436829698d5824231251fad9d8e998f94f5e

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/993c9185-d324-2640-d061-bed2dd18b1f7@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+8ab2d0f39fb79fe6ca40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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syzbot found that a thread can stall for minutes inside kexec_load() after
that thread was killed by SIGKILL [1].  It turned out that the reproducer
was trying to allocate 2408MB of memory using kimage_alloc_page() from
kimage_load_normal_segment().  Let's check for SIGKILL before doing memory
allocation.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a0e3436829698d5824231251fad9d8e998f94f5e

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/993c9185-d324-2640-d061-bed2dd18b1f7@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+8ab2d0f39fb79fe6ca40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 230</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-03T05:44:46+00:00</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this source code is licensed under the gnu general public license
  version 2 see the file copying for more details

  this source code is licensed under general public license version 2
  see

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 52 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.449021192@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this source code is licensed under the gnu general public license
  version 2 see the file copying for more details

  this source code is licensed under general public license version 2
  see

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 52 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.449021192@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>power/suspend: Add function to disable secondaries for suspend</title>
<updated>2019-05-03T17:42:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-11T03:34:45+00:00</published>
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This adds a function to disable secondary CPUs for suspend that are
not necessarily non-zero / non-boot CPUs. Platforms will be able to
use this to suspend using non-zero CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190411033448.20842-3-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This adds a function to disable secondary CPUs for suspend that are
not necessarily non-zero / non-boot CPUs. Platforms will be able to
use this to suspend using non-zero CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190411033448.20842-3-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun KS</name>
<email>arunks@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:34:29+00:00</published>
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totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages are made static inline function.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things.  It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 So it seemes
better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic, with preventing
poteintial store-to-read tearing as a bonus.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-4-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS &lt;arunks@codeaurora.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages are made static inline function.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things.  It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 So it seemes
better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic, with preventing
poteintial store-to-read tearing as a bonus.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-4-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS &lt;arunks@codeaurora.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: reference totalram_pages and managed_pages once per function</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun KS</name>
<email>arunks@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:34:20+00:00</published>
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Patch series "mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed
pages to atomic", v5.

This series converts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
zone-&gt;managed_pages to atomic variables.

totalram_pages, zone-&gt;managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates are
protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care about it.
Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a
store tear.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things.  It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 It seemes better
to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic.  With the change,
preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing comes as a bonus.

This patch (of 4):

This is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages and
zone-&gt;managed_pages to atomic variables.  Please note that re-reading the
value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to
unexpected behavior.  There are no known bugs as a result of the current
code but it is better to prevent from them in principle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS &lt;arunks@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed
pages to atomic", v5.

This series converts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
zone-&gt;managed_pages to atomic variables.

totalram_pages, zone-&gt;managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates are
protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care about it.
Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a
store tear.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things.  It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 It seemes better
to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic.  With the change,
preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing comes as a bonus.

This patch (of 4):

This is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages and
zone-&gt;managed_pages to atomic variables.  Please note that re-reading the
value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to
unexpected behavior.  There are no known bugs as a result of the current
code but it is better to prevent from them in principle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS &lt;arunks@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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