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The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary. But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).
So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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This seems like an obvious typo but it's worked in the past because the virtio
blk frontend just ignores the length field on completion.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (37 commits)
[POWERPC] EEH: Make sure warning message is printed
[POWERPC] Make altivec code in swsusp_32.S depend on CONFIG_ALTIVEC
[POWERPC] windfarm: Fix windfarm thread freezer interaction
[POWERPC] Fix si_addr value on low level hash failures
[POWERPC] Refresh ppc64_defconfig and enable pasemi-related options
[POWERPC] pasemi: Update defconfig
[POWERPC] iSeries: Fix ref counting in vio setup
[POWERPC] ] Fix memset size error
[POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig
[POWERPC] iSeries_init_IRQ non-PCI tidy
[POWERPC] Change fallocate to match unistd.h on powerpc
[POWERPC] EEH: Avoid crash on null device
[POWERPC] EEH: Drivers that need reset trump others
[POWERPC] EEH: Clean up comments
[POWERPC] Fix off-by-one error in setting decrementer on Book E/4xx (v2)
[POWERPC] Fix switch_slb handling of 1T ESID values
[POWERPC] Fix build failure when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined
[POWERPC] Include udbg.h when using udbg_printf
[POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion
[POWERPC] Fix sysctl table check failure on PowerMac
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/powerpc-4xx into merge
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We had an historical confusion in the kernel between cache line
and cache block size. The former is an implementation detail of
the L1 cache which can be useful for performance optimisations,
the later is the actual size on which the cache control
instructions operate, which can be different.
For some reason, we had a weird hack reading the right property
on powermac and the wrong one on any other 64 bits (32 bits is
unaffected as it only uses the cputable for cache block size
infos at this stage).
This fixes the booting-without-of.txt documentation to mention
the right properties, and fixes the 64 bits initialization code
to look for the block size first, with a fallback to the line
size if the property is missing.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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There's no no point in keeping documentation for a driver that was
removed many years ago.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This file is so outdated that I can't see any value in keeping it.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Newsflash: There once was a version of NCSA telnet that had some bug.
Spotted by Pekka Pietikainen.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The drivers have already been removed 3.5 years ago.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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After more than 11 years this file does no longer contain much useful
information.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local
atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to
local_ops.txt.
"Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then
there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process
and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly
since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite painful."
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This patch adds SubmittingPatches translated into Japanese to
Documentation/ja_JP directory.
I attach the patch because there is a possibility that MUA
will change the character encoding sometimes.
Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (26 commits)
cpuidle: remove unused exports
acpi: remove double mention of Support for ACPI option
ACPI: use select POWER_SUPPLY for AC, BATTERY and SBS
ACPI: Battery: Allow extract string from integer
ACPI: battery: Support for non-spec name for LiIon technology
ACPI: battery: register power_supply subdevice only when battery is present
suspend: MAINTAINERS update
ACPI: update MAINTAINERS
fujitsu-laptop.c: remove dead code
cpuidle: unexport tick_nohz_get_sleep_length
ACPI: battery: Update battery information upon sysfs read.
fujitsu-laptop: make 2 functions static
ACPI: EC: fix use-after-free
ACPI: battery: remove dead code
ACPI: Fan: Drop force_power_state acpi_device option
ACPI: Fan: fan device does not need own structure
ACPI: power: don't cache power resource state
ACPI: EC: Output changes to operational mode
ACPI: EC: Add workaround for "optimized" controllers
ACPI: EC: Don't re-enable GPE for each transaction.
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This patch documents the 32-bit boot protocol of x86. It has been used
by Kexec and LinuxBIOS. This patch is based on the proposal of Peter
Anvin.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Device Initiated Power Management, which is defined
in SATA 2.5 can be enabled for disks which support it.
This patch enables DIPM when the user sets the link
power management policy to "min_power".
Additionally, libata drivers can define a function
(enable_pm) that will perform hardware specific actions to
enable whatever power management policy the user set up
for Host Initiated Power management (HIPM).
This power management policy will be activated after all
disks have been enumerated and intialized. Drivers should
also define disable_pm, which will turn off link power
management, but not change link power management policy.
Documentation/scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt has additional
information.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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This patch adds documentation on what is expected of an
action which branches away from the action-graph or when it
needs to trample on actins. It also describes what is expected of
users of such actions.
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix inconsistency of terms:
1) D-SACK
2) F-RTO
Signed-off-by: Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@aist.go.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest:
lguest: documentation update
lguest: Add to maintainers file.
lguest: build fix
lguest: clean up lguest_launcher.h
lguest: remove unused "wake" element from struct lguest
lguest: use defines from x86 headers instead of magic numbers
lguest: example launcher header cleanup.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
[netdrvr] forcedeth: add MCP77 device IDs
rndis_host: reduce MTU instead of refusing to talk to devices with low max packet size
cpmac: update to new fixed phy driver interface
cpmac: convert to napi_struct interface
cpmac: use print_mac() instead of MAC_FMT
natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-struct
ehea: fix port_napi_disable/enable
bonding/bond_main.c: fix cut'n'paste error
make bonding/bond_main.c:bond_deinit() static
drivers/net/ipg.c: cleanups
remove Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt
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Start in POLL mode, and if we receive confirmation GPE,
switch to INT mode.
If confirmations are not sent, switch back to POLL.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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According to git, the only one who touched this file during the last
5 years was me when removing drivers...
modinfo offers less ancient information.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes. This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Now the kernel headers are clean for userspace export, we don't need
to typedef kernel types before including them. We also don't need
pci_ids.h (that was from an earlier virtio draft).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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profile=sleep only works if CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is set. This patch notes
the limitation in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and prints a
warning at boot-time if profile=sleep is used without CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (35 commits)
x86: Add HPET force support for MCP55 (nForce 5) chipsets
x86: Force enable HPET for CK804 (nForce 4) chipsets
x86: clean up setup.h and the boot code
x86: Save registers in saved_context during suspend and hibernation
x86: merge setup_32/64.h
x86: merge signal_32/64.h
x86: merge required-features.h
x86: merge sigcontext_32/64.h
x86: merge msr_32/64.h
x86: merge mttr_32/64.h
x86: merge statfs_32/64.h
x86: merge stat_32/64.h
x86: merge shmbuf_32/64.h
x86: merge ptrace_32/64.h
x86: merge msgbuf_32/64.h
x86: merge elf_32/64.h
x86: merge byteorder_32/64.h
x86: whitespace cleanup of mce_64.c
x86: consolidate the cpu/ related code usage
x86: prepare consolidation of cpu/ related code usage
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (39 commits)
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k5.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct display of ISP serial-number.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct residual-count handling discrepancies during UNDERRUN handling.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Make driver (mostly) legacy I/O port free.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix issue where final flash-segment updates were falling into the slow-path write handler.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Handle unaligned sector writes during NVRAM/VPD updates.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Defer explicit interrupt-polling processing to init-time scenarios.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Resync with latest HBA SSID specification -- 2.2u.
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Remove sym_xpt_async_sent_bdr
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Remove pci_dev pointer from sym_shcb
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Get rid of IRQ_FMT and IRQ_PRM
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Use scmd_printk where appropriate
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Simplify DAC DMA handling
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Remove tag_ctrl module parameter
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Remove io_ws, mmio_ws and ram_ws elements
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Remove ->device_id
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Use pdev->revision
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: PCI Error Recovery support
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Stop overriding scsi_done
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
[WATCHDOG] Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c: improve this code
[WATCHDOG] AR7: watchdog timer
[WATCHDOG] Linux kernel IPC SBC Watchdog Timer driver
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This patch adds a quirk from LinuxBIOS to force enable HPET on
the nVidia CK804 (nForce 4) chipset.
This quirk can very likely support more than just nForce 4
(LinuxBIOS use the same code for nForce 5), and possibly nForce 3,
but I don't have those chipsets, so cannot add and test them.
Tested on an Abit KN9 (CK804).
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <cathectic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +-
arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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Make some improvements for Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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With sysfs making these options tunable at runtime, there's no
justification for keeping this horrendously complex specification
string around.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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This adds a transport to 9p for communicating between guests and a host
using a virtio based transport.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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Now that the "struct boot_params" is userspace accessible, we don't need
magic numbers.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Now arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S understands the hardware_platform field,
we can directly execute bzImages. No more horrific unpacking code.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch
field, that for lguest is "1". This allows us to use the standard
boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack.
The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters
and commandline for us, saving more code.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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We currently discard console and network input when the guest has no
input buffers. This patch changes that, so that we simply stop
listening to that fd until the guest refills its input buffers.
This is particularly important because hvc_console without interrupts
does backoff polling and so often lose characters if we discard.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Implements virtio-based console, network and block servers. The block
server uses a thread so it's async, which is an improvement over the
old synchronous implementation (but a little more complex).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages.
2) It means we don't have to know page_offset.
3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the
PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code.
4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset.
5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was
always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done
before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular).
6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial
hypercall give us that, too.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Apply Clue 2x4 to lguest userland<->kernel handling code and the
lguest launcher. Pointers are not to be passed in u32's!
Basic rule of thumb: Anything passing u32's back and forth should be
passing unsigned longs to be portable to 64 bit archs.
For those who forgotten already, I repeat: NO POINTERS IN u32!
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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In order to avoid problematic special linking of the Launcher, we give
the Host an offset: this means we can use any memory region in the
Launcher as Guest memory rather than insisting on mmap() at 0.
The result is quite pleasing: a number of casts are replaced with
simple additions.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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for some reason.
Plan9 kernel binaries don't neatly align their ELF sections to our
page boundaries.
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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lguest_launcher.h uses "u32" not "__u32", which sets a bad example. Fix that,
and include <linux/types.h>.
This means we need to use -I on the Launcher build line so types.h is found.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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o Describe the new split configurations
o Highlight code documentation in drivers/lguest/README
o Point out necessity of having a getty on /dev/hvc0
o Remove gratuitous "m" in example
o Don't discuss I/O model here, stick to user documentation.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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These two callsites should really be errx instead of err, since there is
no errno associated with them in the moment they are issued.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
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To actually write a bootloader (or, say, the lguest launcher)
currently requires duplication of these structures. Making them
includable from userspace is much nicer.
We merge the common userspace-required definitions of e820_32/64.h
into e820.h for export.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Enable restart support for lite5200 board
[POWERPC] Add restart support for mpc52xx based platforms
[POWERPC] Update device tree binding for mpc5200 gpt
[POWERPC] Add mpc52xx_find_and_map_path(), refactor utility functions
[POWERPC] bestcomm: Restrict bus prefetch bugfix to original mpc5200 silicon.
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