lwn.git/arch/ia64/Kconfig, branch master

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00

The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some distro packages that are rarely used in practice. None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as 'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2 reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have dropped support years ago. While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64 could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case. There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64 but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64 be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead of keeping it supported is real. So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely. This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5], which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow once the kernel support is removed. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/ [2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html [3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/ [5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/ Acked-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options") - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a couple of macros to args.h") - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper commands") - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions") - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot un/plug") - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits) document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread() drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array x86/crash: optimize CPU changes crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu() crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug kstrtox: consistently use _tolower() kill do_each_thread() nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED lockdep: fix static memory detection even more lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition ...

ia64/kexec: refactor for kernel/Kconfig.kexec

2023-08-18T17:18:52+00:00

The kexec and crash kernel options are provided in the common kernel/Kconfig.kexec. Utilize the common options and provide the ARCH_SUPPORTS_ and ARCH_SELECTS_ entries to recreate the equivalent set of KEXEC and CRASH options. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230712161545.87870-5-eric.devolder@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ia64: mm: convert to GENERIC_IOREMAP

2023-08-18T17:12:33+00:00

By taking GENERIC_IOREMAP method, the generic generic_ioremap_prot(), generic_iounmap(), and their generic wrapper ioremap_prot(), ioremap() and iounmap() are all visible and available to arch. Arch needs to provide wrapper functions to override the generic versions if there's arch specific handling in its ioremap_prot(), ioremap() or iounmap(). This change will simplify implementation by removing duplicated code with generic_ioremap_prot() and generic_iounmap(), and has the equivalent functioality as before. Here, add wrapper functions ioremap_prot() and iounmap() for ia64's special operation when ioremap() and iounmap(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230706154520.11257-9-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: David Laight Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Niklas Schnelle Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ia64/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()

2023-06-16T08:15:59+00:00

check_bugs() is about to be phased out. Switch over to the new arch_cpu_finalize_init() implementation. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.137045745@linutronix.de

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...

ia64: don't allow users to override ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER

2023-04-18T23:29:44+00:00

It is enough to keep default values for base and huge pages without letting users to override ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER. Drop the prompt to make the option unvisible in *config. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230324052233.2654090-6-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: David Miller Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Rich Felker Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely

2023-04-06T02:42:46+00:00

MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports: user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1. This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over the kernel. Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now. [kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning] [kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Kconfig: introduce HAS_IOPORT option and select it as necessary

2023-04-05T20:15:19+00:00

We introduce a new HAS_IOPORT Kconfig option to indicate support for I/O Port access. In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will disable compilation of the I/O accessor functions inb()/outb() and friends on architectures which can not meaningfully support legacy I/O spaces such as s390. The following architectures do not select HAS_IOPORT: * ARC * C-SKY * Hexagon * Nios II * OpenRISC * s390 * User-Mode Linux * Xtensa All other architectures select HAS_IOPORT at least conditionally. The "depends on" relations on HAS_IOPORT in drivers as well as ifdefs for HAS_IOPORT specific sections will be added in subsequent patches on a per subsystem basis. Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Johannes Berg # for ARCH=um Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

arch: Introduce CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT

2022-10-17T14:40:58+00:00

Generic function-alignment infrastructure. Architectures can select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_xxB symbols; the FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT symbol is then set to the largest such selected size, 0 otherwise. From this the -falign-functions compiler argument and __ALIGN macro are set. This incorporates the DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B knob and future alignment requirements for x86_64 (later in this series) into a single place. NOTE: also removes the 0x90 filler byte from the generic __ALIGN primitive, that value makes no sense outside of x86. NOTE: .balign 0 reverts to a no-op. Requested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111143.719248727@infradead.org