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<title>linux.git/scripts/tracing, branch v6.6.132</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path</title>
<updated>2023-02-18T19:34:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>zwisler@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-15T22:33:45+00:00</published>
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The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.

But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:

  Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
  file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
  For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
  the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing

Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer
to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;quic_mojha@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.

But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:

  Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
  file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
  For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
  the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing

Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer
to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;quic_mojha@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace/scripts: Update the instructions for ftrace-bisect.sh</title>
<updated>2023-01-24T18:13:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-23T16:22:52+00:00</published>
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The instructions for the ftrace-bisect.sh script, which is used to find
what function is being traced that is causing a kernel crash, and possibly
a triple fault reboot, uses the old method. In 5.1, a new feature was
added that let the user write in the index into available_filter_functions
that maps to the function a user wants to set in set_ftrace_filter (or
set_ftrace_notrace). This takes O(1) to set, as suppose to writing a
function name, which takes O(n) (where n is the number of functions in
available_filter_functions).

The ftrace-bisect.sh requires setting half of the functions in
available_filter_functions, which is O(n^2) using the name method to enable
and can take several minutes to complete. The number method is O(n) which
takes less than a second to complete. Using the number method for any
kernel 5.1 and after is the proper way to do the bisect.

Update the usage to reflect the new change, as well as using the
/sys/kernel/tracing path instead of the obsolete debugfs path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230123112252.022003dd@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: f79b3f338564e ("ftrace: Allow enabling of filters via index of available_filter_functions")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The instructions for the ftrace-bisect.sh script, which is used to find
what function is being traced that is causing a kernel crash, and possibly
a triple fault reboot, uses the old method. In 5.1, a new feature was
added that let the user write in the index into available_filter_functions
that maps to the function a user wants to set in set_ftrace_filter (or
set_ftrace_notrace). This takes O(1) to set, as suppose to writing a
function name, which takes O(n) (where n is the number of functions in
available_filter_functions).

The ftrace-bisect.sh requires setting half of the functions in
available_filter_functions, which is O(n^2) using the name method to enable
and can take several minutes to complete. The number method is O(n) which
takes less than a second to complete. Using the number method for any
kernel 5.1 and after is the proper way to do the bisect.

Update the usage to reflect the new change, as well as using the
/sys/kernel/tracing path instead of the obsolete debugfs path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230123112252.022003dd@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: f79b3f338564e ("ftrace: Allow enabling of filters via index of available_filter_functions")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/tracing: Fix typo 'the the' in comment</title>
<updated>2022-08-02T19:17:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Slark Xiao</name>
<email>slark_xiao@163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-22T10:29:07+00:00</published>
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Replace 'the the' with 'the' in the comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220722102907.81949-1-slark_xiao@163.com

Signed-off-by: Slark Xiao &lt;slark_xiao@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Replace 'the the' with 'the' in the comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220722102907.81949-1-slark_xiao@163.com

Signed-off-by: Slark Xiao &lt;slark_xiao@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/tracing: fix the bug that can't parse raw_trace_func</title>
<updated>2021-08-04T21:49:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hui Su</name>
<email>suhui@zeku.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-11T02:21:07+00:00</published>
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Since commit 77271ce4b2c0 ("tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info
to default trace output"), the default trace output format has been changed to:
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [009] d.h. 22420.068695: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave &lt;-hrtimer_interrupt
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [000] ..s. 22420.068695: _nohz_idle_balance &lt;-run_rebalance_domains
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [011] d.h. 22420.068695: account_process_tick &lt;-update_process_times

origin trace output format:(before v3.2.0)
     # tracer: nop
     #
     #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
     #              | |       |          |         |
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch &lt;-__schedule
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025813: rcu_sched_qs &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled &lt;-__schedule
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled &lt;-__schedule

The draw_functrace.py(introduced in v2.6.28) can't parse the new version format trace_func,
So we need modify draw_functrace.py to adapt the new version trace output format.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611022107.608787-1-suhui@zeku.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77271ce4b2c0 tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace output
Signed-off-by: Hui Su &lt;suhui@zeku.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Since commit 77271ce4b2c0 ("tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info
to default trace output"), the default trace output format has been changed to:
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [009] d.h. 22420.068695: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave &lt;-hrtimer_interrupt
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [000] ..s. 22420.068695: _nohz_idle_balance &lt;-run_rebalance_domains
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [011] d.h. 22420.068695: account_process_tick &lt;-update_process_times

origin trace output format:(before v3.2.0)
     # tracer: nop
     #
     #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
     #              | |       |          |         |
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch &lt;-__schedule
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025813: rcu_sched_qs &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization &lt;-rcu_note_context_switch
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled &lt;-__schedule
          migration/0-6     [000]    50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled &lt;-__schedule

The draw_functrace.py(introduced in v2.6.28) can't parse the new version format trace_func,
So we need modify draw_functrace.py to adapt the new version trace output format.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611022107.608787-1-suhui@zeku.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77271ce4b2c0 tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace output
Signed-off-by: Hui Su &lt;suhui@zeku.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tweewide: Fix most Shebang lines</title>
<updated>2020-12-08T14:30:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Finn Behrens</name>
<email>me@kloenk.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-23T14:15:33+00:00</published>
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Change every shebang which does not need an argument to use /usr/bin/env.
This is needed as not every distro has everything under /usr/bin,
sometimes not even bash.

Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Change every shebang which does not need an argument to use /usr/bin/env.
This is needed as not every distro has everything under /usr/bin,
sometimes not even bash.

Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 166</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4f19048fd0a0036e02443237952db5bfa5b5cdf0'/>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  licensed under the terms of the gnu gpl license version 2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 62 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.929121379@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  licensed under the terms of the gnu gpl license version 2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 62 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.929121379@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts: Add Python 3 support to tracing/draw_functrace.py</title>
<updated>2018-07-29T02:08:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Cline</name>
<email>jcline@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-28T14:48:33+00:00</published>
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Use the print function. This maintains Python 2 support and should have
no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline &lt;jcline@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Use the print function. This maintains Python 2 support and should have
no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline &lt;jcline@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</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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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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<entry>
<title>ftrace/scripts: Add helper script to bisect function tracing problem functions</title>
<updated>2016-09-21T17:56:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-21T17:43:48+00:00</published>
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Every so often, with a special config or a architecture change, running
function or function_graph tracing can cause the machien to hard reboot,
crash, or simply hard lockup. There's some functions in the function graph
tracer that can not be traced otherwise it causes the function tracer to
recurse before the recursion protection mechanisms are in place.

When this occurs, using the dynamic ftrace featuer that allows limiting what
actually gets traced can be used to bisect down to the problem function.
This adds a script that helps with this process in the scripts/tracing
directory, called ftrace-bisect.sh

The set up is to read all the functions that can be traced from
available_filter_functions into a file (full_file). Then run this script
passing it the full_file and a "test_file" and "non_test_file", where the
test_file will be add to set_ftrace_filter. What ftarce_bisect.sh does, is
to copy half of the functions in full_file into the test_file and the other
half into the non_test_file. This way, one can cat the test_file into the
set_ftrace_filter functions and only test the functions that are in that
file. If it works, then we run the process again after copying non_test_file
to full_file and repeating the process. If the system crashed, then the bad
function is in the test_file and after a reboot, the test_file becomes the
new full_file in the next iteration.

When we get down to a single function in the full_file, then
ftrace_bisect.sh will report that as the bad function.

Full documentation of how to use this simple script is within the script
file itself.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160920100716.131d3647@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
Every so often, with a special config or a architecture change, running
function or function_graph tracing can cause the machien to hard reboot,
crash, or simply hard lockup. There's some functions in the function graph
tracer that can not be traced otherwise it causes the function tracer to
recurse before the recursion protection mechanisms are in place.

When this occurs, using the dynamic ftrace featuer that allows limiting what
actually gets traced can be used to bisect down to the problem function.
This adds a script that helps with this process in the scripts/tracing
directory, called ftrace-bisect.sh

The set up is to read all the functions that can be traced from
available_filter_functions into a file (full_file). Then run this script
passing it the full_file and a "test_file" and "non_test_file", where the
test_file will be add to set_ftrace_filter. What ftarce_bisect.sh does, is
to copy half of the functions in full_file into the test_file and the other
half into the non_test_file. This way, one can cat the test_file into the
set_ftrace_filter functions and only test the functions that are in that
file. If it works, then we run the process again after copying non_test_file
to full_file and repeating the process. If the system crashed, then the bad
function is in the test_file and after a reboot, the test_file becomes the
new full_file in the next iteration.

When we get down to a single function in the full_file, then
ftrace_bisect.sh will report that as the bad function.

Full documentation of how to use this simple script is within the script
file itself.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160920100716.131d3647@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Make scripts executable</title>
<updated>2014-08-20T14:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Marek</name>
<email>mmarek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-20T14:02:59+00:00</published>
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The Makefiles call the respective interpreter explicitly, but this makes
it easier to use the scripts manually.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The Makefiles call the respective interpreter explicitly, but this makes
it easier to use the scripts manually.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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