linux.git/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c, branch v4.19

ARCv2: boot log: fix HS48 release number

2018-02-28T18:45:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: boot log: Fix trailing semicolon

2018-01-23T19:12:28+00:00

The trailing semicolon is an empty statement that does no operation.
Removing it since it doesn't do anything.

Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Fix detection of dual-issue enabled

2017-11-29T02:12:07+00:00

As per PRM bit #0 ("D") in EXEC_CTRL enables dual-issue if set to 0,
otherwise if set to 1 all instructions are executed one at a time,
i.e. dual-issue is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: boot log: updates for HS48: dual-issue, ECC, Loop Buffer

2017-11-13T22:37:39+00:00

Print the hardware support for ECC, Loop Buffer as well as the runtime
enabled status

Note that unlike the existing boot printing, this one is not read from
pre-decoded hardware capabilty info cached in cpuinfo[] struct.
Instead we read the AUX regs on the spot and print it, without botherign
to save anywhere.

There is no point in saving static hardware capabilites in memory when
its use is very sporadic and non-performance critical, mainly for
/proc/cpuinfo. This gets worse in SMP, given it is per-cpu, and pretty
much exactly same across all cpus. So only info needed at runtime
(e.g. TLB geometry) needs to be cached in cpuinfo[]. So going fwd
we will start converting code to this paradigm.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: boot log: identify HS48 cores (dual issue)

2017-10-04T03:36:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: boot log: decontaminate ARCv2 ISA_CONFIG register

2017-10-04T03:36:49+00:00

ARCv2 ISA_CONFIG and ARC700_BUILD build config registers are not
compatible. cpuinfo_arc had isa info placeholder which was mashup of bits
form both.

Untangle this by defining it off of ARCv2 ISA info and it is fine even
for ARC700 since former is a super set of latter (ARC700 buildonly has 2
bits for atomics and stack check).

At runtime, we treat ARCv2 ISA info as a generic placeholder but
populate it correctly depending on ARC700 or HS.

This paves way for adding more HS specific bits in isa info which was
colliding with the extra bits for arc700.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag

2017-09-14T01:53:16+00:00

GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE.  It's
primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is
short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close
together and prevent long term fragmentation.  As much as this sounds
like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the
highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag.  How long is temporary? Can the
context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is
no good answer for those questions.

The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of
the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory.  So
this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits.

I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag
with a specific justification.  I suspect most of them just copied from
other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to
use without any measuring.  This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just
motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning.

I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially
those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from
confusion and abuse.  Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and
replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL.  Please note that
SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and
so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention.

I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm
allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and
only then add users with proper justification.

This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it
turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic.  It
seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not
all) its current users.  The follow up discussion has revealed that
opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between
developers.  So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a
semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag
and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term
allocations.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARC: set boot print log level to PR_INFO

2017-08-28T22:17:36+00:00

Some of the boot printing code had printk() w/o explicit log level.

This patch introduces consistency allowing platforms to switch to less
verbose console logging using cmdline.

NPS400 with 4K CPUs needs to avoid the cpu info printing for faster
bootup.

Signed-off-by: Noam Camus 
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

clocksource/drivers: Rename clocksource_probe to timer_probe

2017-06-14T09:59:16+00:00

The function name is now renamed to 'timer_probe' for consistency with
the CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE => TIMER_OF_DECLARE change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar 
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner 
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij

ARCv2: entry: save Accumulator register pair (r58:59) if present

2017-04-20T22:37:49+00:00

Accumulator is present in configs with FPU and/or DSP MPY (mpy > 6)

Instead of doing this in pt_regs (and thus every kernel entry/exit),
this could have been done in context switch (and for user task only) as
currently kernel doesn't clobber these registers for its own accord.
However we will soon start using 64-bit multiply instructions for kernel
which can clobber these. Also gcc folks also plan to start using these
as GPRs, hence better to always save/restore them

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta