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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-24 22:14:07 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-24 22:14:07 +0100
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parentRevert "ubsan, kcsan: Don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang" (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "Various misc subsystems, before getting into the post-linux-next material. 41 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: procfs, misc, core-kernel, lib, checkpatch, init, pipe, minix, fat, cgroups, kexec, kdump, taskstats, panic, kcov, resource, and ubsan" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (41 commits) Revert "ubsan, kcsan: Don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang" kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again kcov: properly handle subsequent mmap calls kcov: split ioctl handling into locked and unlocked parts panic: move panic_print before kmsg dumpers panic: add option to dump all CPUs backtraces in panic_print docs: sysctl/kernel: add missing bit to panic_print taskstats: remove unneeded dead assignment kasan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in end_report() ubsan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in ubsan_epilogue() panic: unset panic_on_warn inside panic() docs: kdump: add scp example to write out the dump file docs: kdump: update description about sysfs file system support arm64: mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef x86/setup: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef riscv: mm: init: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef kexec: make crashk_res, crashk_low_res and crash_notes symbols always visible cgroup: use irqsave in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked(). fat: use pointer to simple type in put_user() minix: fix bug when opening a file with O_DIRECT ...
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@@ -100,3 +100,5 @@ have already built it.
The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The
build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.
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+Note that sparse defines the __CHECKER__ preprocessor symbol.