linux.git/arch/ia64/Makefile, branch master Linux kernel source 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Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org 2022-10-20T13:54:33+00:00 cf8e8658100d4eae80ce9b21f7a81cb024dd5057 The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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>
arch: Introduce CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT 2022-10-17T14:40:58+00:00 Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org 2022-09-15T11:10:47+00:00 d49a0626216b95cd4bf696f6acf55f39a16ab0bb 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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111143.719248727@infradead.org 
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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111143.719248727@infradead.org
kbuild: remove head-y syntax 2022-10-02T09:06:03+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2022-09-24T18:19:15+00:00 ce697ccee1a8661da4e23fbe5f3d45d8d6922c20 Kbuild puts the objects listed in head-y at the head of vmlinux. Conventionally, we do this for head*.S, which contains the kernel entry point. A counter approach is to control the section order by the linker script. Actually, the code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section, which is placed before the normal ".text" section. I do not know if both of them are needed. From the build system perspective, head-y is not mandatory. If you can achieve the proper code placement by the linker script only, it would be cleaner. I collected the current head-y objects into head-object-list.txt. It is a whitelist. My hope is it will be reduced in the long run. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> 
Kbuild puts the objects listed in head-y at the head of vmlinux.
Conventionally, we do this for head*.S, which contains the kernel entry
point.

A counter approach is to control the section order by the linker script.
Actually, the code marked as __HEAD goes into the ".head.text" section,
which is placed before the normal ".text" section.

I do not know if both of them are needed. From the build system
perspective, head-y is not mandatory. If you can achieve the proper code
placement by the linker script only, it would be cleaner.

I collected the current head-y objects into head-object-list.txt. It is
a whitelist. My hope is it will be reduced in the long run.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
kbuild: factor out the common installation code into scripts/install.sh 2022-05-11T12:45:53+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2022-05-03T02:47:16+00:00 f774f5bb87d132b48bc4a99598c45f35121ac054 Many architectures have similar install.sh scripts. The first half is really generic; it verifies that the kernel image and System.map exist, then executes ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} or /sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} if available. The second half is kind of arch-specific; it copies the kernel image and System.map to the destination, but the code is slightly different. Factor out the generic part into scripts/install.sh. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de> 
Many architectures have similar install.sh scripts.

The first half is really generic; it verifies that the kernel image
and System.map exist, then executes ~/bin/${INSTALLKERNEL} or
/sbin/${INSTALLKERNEL} if available.

The second half is kind of arch-specific; it copies the kernel image
and System.map to the destination, but the code is slightly different.

Factor out the generic part into scripts/install.sh.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
ia64: make the install target not depend on any build artifact 2022-05-07T18:17:00+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2022-04-30T12:16:38+00:00 63cbee7f3a1d4f48f8aceb11598f0da4f32fb403 The install target should not depend on any build artifact. The reason is explained in commit 19514fc665ff ("arm, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux"). Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> 
The install target should not depend on any build artifact.

The reason is explained in commit 19514fc665ff ("arm, kbuild: make
"make install" not depend on vmlinux").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
kbuild: use more subdir- for visiting subdirectories while cleaning 2021-10-24T04:49:46+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2021-10-13T06:36:22+00:00 8212f8986d311ccf6a72305e6bdbd814691701d6 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst suggests to use "archclean" for cleaning arch/$(SRCARCH)/boot/, but it is not a hard requirement. Since commit d92cc4d51643 ("kbuild: require all architectures to have arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kbuild"), we can use the "subdir- += boot" trick for all architectures. This can take advantage of the parallel option (-j) for "make clean". I also cleaned up the comments in arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile. The "archdep" target no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) 
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst suggests to use "archclean" for
cleaning arch/$(SRCARCH)/boot/, but it is not a hard requirement.

Since commit d92cc4d51643 ("kbuild: require all architectures to have
arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kbuild"), we can use the "subdir- += boot" trick for
all architectures. This can take advantage of the parallel option (-j)
for "make clean".

I also cleaned up the comments in arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile. The "archdep"
target no longer exists.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
ia64: move core-y in arch/ia64/Makefile to arch/ia64/Kbuild 2021-09-02T23:17:20+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2021-08-11T16:43:12+00:00 ba3e87cfa2a0f2db889297b6fc8a9e91a35c2d21 Use obj-y to clean up Makefile. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> 
Use obj-y to clean up Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
ia64: remove redundant READELF from arch/ia64/Makefile 2021-02-28T06:22:02+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2021-02-27T05:34:50+00:00 ad7953e7aebb585d0fcfc58d81e207360f751ddb READELF is defined by the top Makefile. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> 
READELF is defined by the top Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild 2021-02-25T18:17:31+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-02-25T18:17:31+00:00 6fbd6cf85a3be127454a1ad58525a3adcf8612ab Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Fix false-positive build warnings for ARCH=ia64 builds - Optimize dictionary size for module compression with xz - Check the compiler and linker versions in Kconfig - Fix misuse of extra-y - Support DWARF v5 debug info - Clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 because stable releases 4.4.x and 4.9.x exceeded the limit - Add generic syscall{tbl,hdr}.sh for cleanups across arches - Minor cleanups of genksyms - Minor cleanups of Kconfig * tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (38 commits) initramfs: Remove redundant dependency of RD_ZSTD on BLK_DEV_INITRD kbuild: remove deprecated 'always' and 'hostprogs-y/m' kbuild: parse C= and M= before changing the working directory kbuild: reuse this-makefile to define abs_srctree kconfig: unify rule of config, menuconfig, nconfig, gconfig, xconfig kconfig: omit --oldaskconfig option for 'make config' kconfig: fix 'invalid option' for help option kconfig: remove dead code in conf_askvalue() kconfig: clean up nested if-conditionals in check_conf() kconfig: Remove duplicate call to sym_get_string_value() Makefile: Remove # characters from compiler string Makefile: reuse CC_VERSION_TEXT kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig kbuild: remove ld-version macro scripts: add generic syscallhdr.sh scripts: add generic syscalltbl.sh arch: syscalls: remove $(srctree)/ prefix from syscall tables arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work gen_compile_commands: prune some directories kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version ... 
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Fix false-positive build warnings for ARCH=ia64 builds

 - Optimize dictionary size for module compression with xz

 - Check the compiler and linker versions in Kconfig

 - Fix misuse of extra-y

 - Support DWARF v5 debug info

 - Clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 because stable releases 4.4.x and 4.9.x
   exceeded the limit

 - Add generic syscall{tbl,hdr}.sh for cleanups across arches

 - Minor cleanups of genksyms

 - Minor cleanups of Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (38 commits)
  initramfs: Remove redundant dependency of RD_ZSTD on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  kbuild: remove deprecated 'always' and 'hostprogs-y/m'
  kbuild: parse C= and M= before changing the working directory
  kbuild: reuse this-makefile to define abs_srctree
  kconfig: unify rule of config, menuconfig, nconfig, gconfig, xconfig
  kconfig: omit --oldaskconfig option for 'make config'
  kconfig: fix 'invalid option' for help option
  kconfig: remove dead code in conf_askvalue()
  kconfig: clean up nested if-conditionals in check_conf()
  kconfig: Remove duplicate call to sym_get_string_value()
  Makefile: Remove # characters from compiler string
  Makefile: reuse CC_VERSION_TEXT
  kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig
  kbuild: remove ld-version macro
  scripts: add generic syscallhdr.sh
  scripts: add generic syscalltbl.sh
  arch: syscalls: remove $(srctree)/ prefix from syscall tables
  arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work
  gen_compile_commands: prune some directories
  kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version
  ...
Merge tag 'oprofile-removal-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/linux 2021-02-21T18:40:34+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-02-21T18:40:34+00:00 24880bef417f6e9069158c750969d18793427a10 Pull oprofile and dcookies removal from Viresh Kumar: "Remove oprofile and dcookies support The 'oprofile' user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to the perf interfaces. The dcookies stuff is only used by the oprofile code. Now that oprofile's support is getting removed from the kernel, there is no need for dcookies as well. Remove kernel's old oprofile and dcookies support" * tag 'oprofile-removal-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/linux: fs: Remove dcookies support drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: xtensa: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: x86: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: sparc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: sh: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: s390: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: powerpc: Remove oprofile arch: powerpc: Stop building and using oprofile arch: parisc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: mips: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: microblaze: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: ia64: Remove rest of perfmon support arch: ia64: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: hexagon: Don't select HAVE_OPROFILE arch: arc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: arm: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support arch: alpha: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support 
Pull oprofile and dcookies removal from Viresh Kumar:
 "Remove oprofile and dcookies support

  The 'oprofile' user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
  any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
  the perf interfaces.

  The dcookies stuff is only used by the oprofile code. Now that
  oprofile's support is getting removed from the kernel, there is no
  need for dcookies as well.

  Remove kernel's old oprofile and dcookies support"

* tag 'oprofile-removal-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/linux:
  fs: Remove dcookies support
  drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: xtensa: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: x86: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sparc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: sh: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: s390: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: powerpc: Remove oprofile
  arch: powerpc: Stop building and using oprofile
  arch: parisc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: mips: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: microblaze: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: ia64: Remove rest of perfmon support
  arch: ia64: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: hexagon: Don't select HAVE_OPROFILE
  arch: arc: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: arm: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
  arch: alpha: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support