linux-stable.git/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S, 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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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

objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As
such, add a little validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren 
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

2020-09-01T07:50:35+00:00

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a
new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections
that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org

mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h

2020-06-09T16:39:13+00:00

The replacement of  with  made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes.  Fix this up with the aid of
the below script and manual adjustments here and there.

	import sys
	import re

	if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
	    print "USAGE: %s  " % (sys.argv[0])
	    sys.exit(1)

	hdr_to_move="#include " % sys.argv[2]
	moved = False
	in_hdrs = False

	with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
	    lines = f.readlines()
	    for _line in lines:
		line = _line.rstrip('
')
		if line == hdr_to_move:
		    continue
		if line.startswith("#include 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Cain 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Nick Hu 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vincent Chen 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h

2020-06-09T16:39:13+00:00

The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.

Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgtable.h and
make the latter include asm/pgtable.h.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Cain 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Mark Salter 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Nick Hu 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Vincent Chen 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-3-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kasan: stackdepot: move filter_irq_stacks() to stackdepot.c

2020-04-07T17:43:43+00:00

filter_irq_stacks() can be used by other tools (e.g.  KMSAN), so it needs
to be moved to a common location.  lib/stackdepot.c seems a good place, as
filter_irq_stacks() is usually applied to the output of
stack_trace_save().

This patch has been previously mailed as part of KMSAN RFC patch series.

[glider@google.co: nds32: linker script: add SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT\
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311121002.241430-1-glider@google.com
[glider@google.com: add IRQENTRY_TEXT and SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT to linker script]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311121124.243352-1-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Marco Elver 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220141916.55455-3-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment

2019-11-04T17:14:41+00:00

Since the EXCEPTION_TABLE is read-only, collapse it into RO_DATA.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-22-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RODATA with RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:53:15+00:00

There's no reason to keep the RODATA macro: replace the callers with
the expected RO_DATA macro.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-12-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:34:41+00:00

The .notes section should be non-executable read-only data. As such,
move it to the RO_DATA macro instead of being per-architecture defined.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-11-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Move Program Header restoration into NOTES macro

2019-11-04T14:34:39+00:00

In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, make the Program Header
assignment restoration be part of the NOTES macro itself.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # s390
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Rick Edgecombe 
Cc: Segher Boessenkool 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: x86-ml 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-10-keescook@chromium.org