linux-stable.git/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c, branch master Linux kernel stable tree arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00 Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org 2022-10-20T13:54:33+00:00 cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057 The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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 <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> 
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 <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'x86-boot-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2023-06-26T20:39:10+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2023-06-26T20:39:10+00:00 7cffdbe3607a6cc2dc02d135e13732ec36bc4e28 Pull x86 boot updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Initialize FPU late. Right now FPU is initialized very early during boot. There is no real requirement to do so. The only requirement is to have it done before alternatives are patched. That's done in check_bugs() which does way more than what the function name suggests. So first rename check_bugs() to arch_cpu_finalize_init() which makes it clear what this is about. Move the invocation of arch_cpu_finalize_init() earlier in start_kernel() as it has to be done before fork_init() which needs to know the FPU register buffer size. With those prerequisites the FPU initialization can be moved into arch_cpu_finalize_init(), which removes it from the early and fragile part of the x86 bringup" * tag 'x86-boot-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mem_encrypt: Unbreak the AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=n build x86/fpu: Move FPU initialization into arch_cpu_finalize_init() x86/fpu: Mark init functions __init x86/fpu: Remove cpuinfo argument from init functions x86/init: Initialize signal frame size late init, x86: Move mem_encrypt_init() into arch_cpu_finalize_init() init: Invoke arch_cpu_finalize_init() earlier init: Remove check_bugs() leftovers um/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() sparc/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() sh/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() mips/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() m68k/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() loongarch/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() ia64/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() ARM: cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() x86/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() init: Provide arch_cpu_finalize_init() 
Pull x86 boot updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Initialize FPU late.

  Right now FPU is initialized very early during boot. There is no real
  requirement to do so. The only requirement is to have it done before
  alternatives are patched.

  That's done in check_bugs() which does way more than what the function
  name suggests.

  So first rename check_bugs() to arch_cpu_finalize_init() which makes
  it clear what this is about.

  Move the invocation of arch_cpu_finalize_init() earlier in
  start_kernel() as it has to be done before fork_init() which needs to
  know the FPU register buffer size.

  With those prerequisites the FPU initialization can be moved into
  arch_cpu_finalize_init(), which removes it from the early and fragile
  part of the x86 bringup"

* tag 'x86-boot-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mem_encrypt: Unbreak the AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=n build
  x86/fpu: Move FPU initialization into arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  x86/fpu: Mark init functions __init
  x86/fpu: Remove cpuinfo argument from init functions
  x86/init: Initialize signal frame size late
  init, x86: Move mem_encrypt_init() into arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  init: Invoke arch_cpu_finalize_init() earlier
  init: Remove check_bugs() leftovers
  um/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  sparc/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  sh/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  mips/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  m68k/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  loongarch/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  ia64/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  ARM: cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  x86/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init()
  init: Provide arch_cpu_finalize_init()
ia64/cpu: Switch to arch_cpu_finalize_init() 2023-06-16T08:15:59+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2023-06-13T23:39:27+00:00 6c38e3005621800263f117fb00d6787a76e16de7 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 <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.137045745@linutronix.de 
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224545.137045745@linutronix.de
init: remove pointless Root_* values 2023-06-05T16:55:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2023-05-31T12:55:16+00:00 f5524c3fadba35c075a5131bad74e3041507a694 Remove all unused defines, and just use the expanded versions for the SCSI disk majors. I've decided to keep Root_RAM0 even if it could be expanded as there is a lot of special casing for it in the init code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Remove all unused defines, and just use the expanded versions for
the SCSI disk majors.

I've decided to keep Root_RAM0 even if it could be expanded as there
is a lot of special casing for it in the init code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
ia64: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy 2022-09-12T04:55:09+00:00 Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com 2022-08-18T20:59:39+00:00 216e71f13c13a7b3df352742554445907011a3a5 Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used. Generated by a coccinelle script. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818205940.6216-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this
subsystem.  Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used. 
Generated by a coccinelle script.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818205940.6216-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/ia64: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate 2022-06-03T13:52:57+00:00 Yury Norov yury.norov@gmail.com 2022-01-23T18:38:45+00:00 b6dad11d9cb105681abbfc3d57aae4b21bd0c8c4 setup_arch() calls cpumask_weight() to check if any bit of a given cpumask is set. We can do it more efficiently with cpumask_empty() because cpumask_empty() stops traversing the cpumask as soon as it finds first set bit, while cpumask_weight() counts all bits unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> 
setup_arch() calls cpumask_weight() to check if any bit of a given cpumask
is set. We can do it more efficiently with cpumask_empty() because
cpumask_empty() stops traversing the cpumask as soon as it finds first set
bit, while cpumask_weight() counts all bits unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c: use swap() to make code cleaner 2022-01-15T14:30:24+00:00 Yang Guang yang.guang5@zte.com.cn 2022-01-14T22:03:16+00:00 6c4420b09267050bc47b3999d80457a8dabaeb89 Use the macro 'swap()' defined in 'include/linux/minmax.h' to avoid opencoding it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211104001908.695110-1-yang.guang5@zte.com.cn Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Yang Guang <yang.guang5@zte.com.cn> Cc: David Yang <davidcomponentone@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Use the macro 'swap()' defined in 'include/linux/minmax.h' to avoid
opencoding it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211104001908.695110-1-yang.guang5@zte.com.cn
Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Yang Guang <yang.guang5@zte.com.cn>
Cc: David Yang <davidcomponentone@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ia64: make num_rsvd_regions static 2021-09-03T16:58:09+00:00 Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be 2021-09-02T21:50:08+00:00 7e4265c88968d4e53b164944c05e12e79d8ff9c6 Commit f62800992e5917f2 ("ia64: switch to NO_BOOTMEM") removed the last user of num_rsvd_regions outside arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a377b5437e3e9da93d02f996fe06a2b956cb0990.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Commit f62800992e5917f2 ("ia64: switch to NO_BOOTMEM") removed the last
user of num_rsvd_regions outside arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a377b5437e3e9da93d02f996fe06a2b956cb0990.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ia64: make reserve_elfcorehdr() static 2021-09-03T16:58:09+00:00 Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be 2021-09-02T21:50:04+00:00 70b2e9912a018e9fddb3a1e0cbb397d4d3c0e98f There never was a reason for reserve_elfcorehdr() to be global. Make the function static, and move it before its sole caller. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe236cd73b64abc4abd03dd808cb015c907f4c8c.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Fixes: cee87af2a5f75713 ("[IA64] kexec: Use EFI_LOADER_DATA for ELF core header") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
There never was a reason for reserve_elfcorehdr() to be global.  Make the
function static, and move it before its sole caller.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe236cd73b64abc4abd03dd808cb015c907f4c8c.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Fixes: cee87af2a5f75713 ("[IA64] kexec: Use EFI_LOADER_DATA for ELF core header")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ia64: fix #endif comment for reserve_elfcorehdr() 2021-09-03T16:58:09+00:00 Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be 2021-09-02T21:50:01+00:00 1d1f4bf845d36d73b27ed37790cae0da3112ca77 Patch series "ia64: Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups". This patch series contains some miscellaneous fixes and cleanups for ia64. The second patch fixes a naming conflict triggered by a patch for the FDT code. This patch (of 3): The definition of reserve_elfcorehdr() depends on CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP, not CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/77b4c0648f200cab7e1c2c5171c06763e09362aa.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Fixes: d9a9855d0b06ca6d ("always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel") Fixes: 17c1f07ed70afa4f ("[IA64] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Patch series "ia64: Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups".

This patch series contains some miscellaneous fixes and cleanups for ia64.
The second patch fixes a naming conflict triggered by a patch for the FDT
code.

This patch (of 3):

The definition of reserve_elfcorehdr() depends on CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP, not
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/77b4c0648f200cab7e1c2c5171c06763e09362aa.1629884459.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Fixes: d9a9855d0b06ca6d ("always reserve elfcore header memory in crash kernel")
Fixes: 17c1f07ed70afa4f ("[IA64] Reserve elfcorehdr memory in CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>