linux.git/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c, branch v7.0

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model

2026-01-27T04:02:18+00:00

Every architecture calls sparse_init() during setup_arch() although the
data structures created by sparse_init() are not used until the
initialization of the core MM.

Beside the code duplication, calling sparse_init() from architecture
specific code causes ordering differences of vmemmap and HVO
initialization on different architectures.

Move the call to sparse_init() from architecture specific code to
free_area_init() to ensure that vmemmap and HVO initialization order is
always the same.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-25-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andreas Larsson 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Klara Modin 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Magnus Lindholm 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Pratyush Yadav 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

alpha: remove LCA and APECS based machines

2024-05-03T20:09:59+00:00

APECS is the DECchip 21071x chipset for the EV4 and EV45 generation, while
LCA is the integrated I/O support on the corresponding low-cost alpha
machines of that generation.

All of these CPUs lack the BWX extension for byte and word access, so
drop the chipset support and all associated machines.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

alpha: sable: remove early machine support

2024-05-03T20:09:55+00:00

The sable family (Alphaserver 2000 and 2100) comes in variants for
EV4, EV45, EV5 and EV56. Drop support for the earlier ones that
lack support for the BWX extension but keep the later 'gamma'
variant around since that works with EV56 CPUs.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

alpha: remove DECpc AXP150 (Jensen) support

2024-05-03T20:09:50+00:00

This is one of the hackiest Alpha machines, and the only one without
PCI support. Removing this allows cleaning up code in eise and tty
drivers in addition to the architecture code.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

vgacon: clean up global screen_info instances

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

To prepare for completely separating the VGA console screen_info from
the one used in EFI/sysfb, rename the vgacon instances and make them
local as much as possible.

ia64 and arm both have confurations with vgacon and efi, but the contents
never overlaps because ia64 has no EFI framebuffer, and arm only has
vga console on legacy platforms without EFI. Renaming these is required
before the EFI screen_info can be moved into drivers/firmware.

The ia64 vga console is actually registered in two places from
setup_arch(), but one of them is wrong, so drop the one in pcdp.c and
fix the one in setup.c to use the correct conditional.

x86 has to keep them together, as the boot protocol is used to switch
between VGA text console and framebuffer through the screen_info data.

Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas 
Acked-by: Khalid Aziz 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-7-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vgacon: remove screen_info dependency

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

The vga console driver is fairly self-contained, and only used by
architectures that explicitly initialize the screen_info settings.

Chance every instance that picks the vga console by setting conswitchp
to call a function instead, and pass a reference to the screen_info
there.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas 
Acked-by: Khalid Azzi 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-6-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vgacon: rework screen_info #ifdef checks

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

On non-x86 architectures, the screen_info variable is generally only
used for the VGA console where supported, and in some cases the EFI
framebuffer or vga16fb.

Now that we have a definite list of which architectures actually use it
for what, use consistent #ifdef checks so the global variable is only
defined when it is actually used on those architectures.

Loongarch and riscv have no support for vgacon or vga16fb, but
they support EFI firmware, so only that needs to be checked, and the
initialization can be removed because that is handled by EFI.
IA64 has both vgacon and EFI, though EFI apparently never uses
a framebuffer here.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann 
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz 
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-3-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge commit b320441c04c9 ("Merge tag 'tty-6.5-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty") into tty-next

2023-08-20T12:29:37+00:00

We need the serial-core fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman