Prior to the adoption of SPDX, it was difficult for tools to determine
the correct license due to incomplete or badly formatted license text.
The SPDX solves this issue, assuming people can correctly spell
"SPDX-License-Identifier" although this assumption is broken in some
places.
Since scripts/spdxcheck.py parses only lines that exactly matches to
the correct tag, it cannot (should not) detect this kind of error.
If the correct tag is missing, scripts/checkpatch.pl warns like this:
WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line *
So, people should notice it before the patch submission, but in reality
broken tags sometimes slip in. The checkpatch warning is not useful for
checking the committed files globally since large number of files still
have no SPDX tag.
Also, I am not sure about the legal effect when the SPDX tag is broken.
Anyway, these typos are absolutely worth fixing. It is pretty easy to
find suspicious lines by grep.
$ git grep --not -e SPDX-License-Identifier --and -e SPDX- -- \
:^LICENSES :^scripts/spdxcheck.py :^*/license-rules.rst
arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c:// SPDX-Identifier: GPL-2.0
drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c:// SPDX-Licence-Identifier: GPL-2.0
drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77980.c:// SPDX-Lincense-Identifier: GPL 2.0
lib/test_stackinit.c:// SPDX-Licenses: GPLv2
sound/soc/codecs/max9759.c:// SPDX-Licence-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Call the per-processor type check_bugs() method in the same way as we
do other per-processor functions - move the "processor." detail into
proc-fns.h.
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Add support for per-processor bug checking - each processor function
descriptor gains a function pointer for this check, which must not be
an __init function. If non-NULL, this will be called whenever a CPU
enters the kernel via which ever path (boot CPU, secondary CPU startup,
CPU resuming, etc.)
This allows processor specific bug checks to validate that workaround
bits are properly enabled by firmware via all entry paths to the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Check for CPU bugs when secondary processors are being brought online,
and also when CPUs are resuming from a low power mode. This gives an
opportunity to check that processor specific bug workarounds are
correctly enabled for all paths that a CPU re-enters the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Prepare the processor bug infrastructure so that it can be expanded to
check for per-processor bugs.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
