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<updated>2020-05-08T05:32:17+00:00</updated>
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<title>crypto: lib/sha1 - remove unnecessary includes of linux/cryptohash.h</title>
<updated>2020-05-08T05:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2020-05-02T18:24:26+00:00</published>
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&lt;linux/cryptohash.h&gt; sounds very generic and important, like it's the
header to include if you're doing cryptographic hashing in the kernel.
But actually it only includes the library implementation of the SHA-1
compression function (not even the full SHA-1).  This should basically
never be used anymore; SHA-1 is no longer considered secure, and there
are much better ways to do cryptographic hashing in the kernel.

Most files that include this header don't actually need it.  So in
preparation for removing it, remove all these unneeded includes of it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33+00:00</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8788/1: ftrace: remove old mcount support</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T09:44:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Agner</name>
<email>stefan@agner.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-11T03:31:49+00:00</published>
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Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")
raised the minimum GCC version to 4.6. Old mcount is only required for
GCC versions older than 4.4.0. Hence old mcount support can be dropped
too.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner &lt;stefan@agner.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: 8745/1: get rid of __memzero()</title>
<updated>2018-01-21T15:37:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-19T17:17:46+00:00</published>
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The __memzero assembly code is almost identical to memset's except for
two orr instructions. The runtime performance of __memset(p, n) and
memset(p, 0, n) is accordingly almost identical.

However, the memset() macro used to guard against a zero length and to
call __memzero at compile time when the fill value is a constant zero
interferes with compiler optimizations.

Arnd found tha the test against a zero length brings up some new
warnings with gcc v8:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82103

And successively rremoving the test against a zero length and the call
to __memzero optimization produces the following kernel sizes for
defconfig with gcc 6:

    text     data     bss       dec       hex  filename
12248142  6278960  413588  18940690   1210312  vmlinux.orig
12244474  6278960  413588  18937022   120f4be  vmlinux.no_zero_test
12239160  6278960  413588  18931708   120dffc  vmlinux.no_memzero

So it is probably not worth keeping __memzero around given that the
compiler can do a better job at inlining trivial memset(p,0,n) on its
own. And the memset code already handles a zero length just fine.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: implement memset32 &amp; memset64</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:14:00+00:00</published>
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Reuse the existing optimised memset implementation to implement an
optimised memset32 and memset64.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720184539.31609-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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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<entry>
<title>arm: kernel: Add SMC structure parameter</title>
<updated>2017-02-03T18:46:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Gross</name>
<email>andy.gross@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T17:28:27+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a quirk parameter to the arm_smccc_(smc/hvc) calls.
The quirk structure allows for specialized SMC operations due to SoC
specific requirements.  The current arm_smccc_(smc/hvc) is renamed and
macros are used instead to specify the standard arm_smccc_(smc/hvc) or
the arm_smccc_(smc/hvc)_quirk function.

This patch and partial implementation was suggested by Will Deacon.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gross &lt;andy.gross@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Revert "arm: move exports to definitions"</title>
<updated>2016-11-23T10:00:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-23T10:00:03+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 4dd1837d7589f468ed109556513f476e7a7f9121.

Moving the exports for assembly code into the assembly files breaks
KSYM trimming, but also breaks modversions.

While fixing the KSYM trimming is trivial, fixing modversions brings
us to a technically worse position that we had prior to the above
change:

- We end up with the prototype definitions divorsed from everything
  else, which means that adding or removing assembly level ksyms
  become more fragile:
  * if adding a new assembly ksyms export, a missed prototype in
    asm-prototypes.h results in a successful build if no module in
    the selected configuration makes use of the symbol.
  * when removing a ksyms export, asm-prototypes.h will get forgotten,
    with armksyms.c, you'll get a build error if you forget to touch
    the file.

- We end up with the same amount of include files and prototypes,
  they're just in a header file instead of a .c file with their
  exports.

As for lines of code, we don't get much of a size reduction:
 (original commit)
 47 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
 (fix for ksyms trimming)
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 (two fixes for modversions)
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
which results in a net total of only 25 lines deleted.

As there does not seem to be much benefit from this change of approach,
revert the change.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm: move exports to definitions</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T03:47:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T18:46:22+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8479/2: add implementation for arm-smccc</title>
<updated>2016-01-04T16:24:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Wiklander</name>
<email>jens.wiklander@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-04T14:42:55+00:00</published>
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Adds implementation for arm-smccc and enables CONFIG_HAVE_SMCCC for
architectures that may support arm-smccc. It's the responsibility of the
caller to know if the SMC instruction is supported by the platform.

Reviewed-by: Lars Persson &lt;lars.persson@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander &lt;jens.wiklander@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'cleanup', 'fixes', 'misc', 'omap-barrier' and 'uaccess' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2015-09-03T14:28:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-03T14:28:37+00:00</published>
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