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<title>arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture</title>
<updated>2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2022-10-20T13:54:33+00:00</published>
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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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 &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>acpi: Provide ia64 dummy implementation of acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check()</title>
<updated>2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-03T22:23:25+00:00</published>
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Commit 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of
acpi_processor.c") moved the MWAIT quirk code into arch/x86 but left
calls to it in the ACPI PDC processor code that is shared with Itanium,
breaking the latter build.

Since the quirk is specific to a certain x86-based platform, stub out
the function acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check() when building for ia64.

Fixes: 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi_processor.c")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of
acpi_processor.c") moved the MWAIT quirk code into arch/x86 but left
calls to it in the ACPI PDC processor code that is shared with Itanium,
breaking the latter build.

Since the quirk is specific to a certain x86-based platform, stub out
the function acpi_proc_quirk_mwait_check() when building for ia64.

Fixes: 0a0e2ea642f6 ("ACPI: processor: Move MWAIT quirk out of acpi_processor.c")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations</title>
<updated>2023-03-05T22:30:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-04T21:35:43+00:00</published>
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Commit aa47a7c215e7 ("lib/cpumask: deprecate nr_cpumask_bits") resulted
in the cpumask operations potentially becoming hugely less efficient,
because suddenly the cpumask was always considered to be variable-sized.

The optimization was then later added back in a limited form by commit
6f9c07be9d02 ("lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option"), but that
FORCE_NR_CPUS option is not useful in a generic kernel and more of a
special case for embedded situations with fixed hardware.

Instead, just re-introduce the optimization, with some changes.

Instead of depending on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK being false, and then always
using the full constant cpumask width, this introduces three different
cpumask "sizes":

 - the exact size (nr_cpumask_bits) remains identical to nr_cpu_ids.

   This is used for situations where we should use the exact size.

 - the "small" size (small_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   fits in a single word and the bitmap operations thus end up able
   to trigger the "small_const_nbits()" optimizations.

   This is used for the operations that have optimized single-word
   cases that get inlined, notably the bit find and scanning functions.

 - the "large" size (large_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   is an sufficiently small constant that makes simple "copy" and
   "clear" operations more efficient.

   This is arbitrarily set at four words or less.

As a an example of this situation, without this fixed size optimization,
cpumask_clear() will generate code like

        movl    nr_cpu_ids(%rip), %edx
        addq    $63, %rdx
        shrq    $3, %rdx
        andl    $-8, %edx
        callq   memset@PLT

on x86-64, because it would calculate the "exact" number of longwords
that need to be cleared.

In contrast, with this patch, using a MAX_CPU of 64 (which is quite a
reasonable value to use), the above becomes a single

	movq $0,cpumask

instruction instead, because instead of caring to figure out exactly how
many CPU's the system has, it just knows that the cpumask will be a
single word and can just clear it all.

Note that this does end up tightening the rules a bit from the original
version in another way: operations that set bits in the cpumask are now
limited to the actual nr_cpu_ids limit, whereas we used to do the
nr_cpumask_bits thing almost everywhere in the cpumask code.

But if you just clear bits, or scan for bits, we can use the simpler
compile-time constants.

In the process, remove 'cpumask_complement()' and 'for_each_cpu_not()'
which were not useful, and which fundamentally have to be limited to
'nr_cpu_ids'.  Better remove them now than have somebody introduce use
of them later.

Of course, on x86-64 with MAXSMP there is no sane small compile-time
constant for the cpumask sizes, and we end up using the actual CPU bits,
and will generate the above kind of horrors regardless.  Please don't
use MAXSMP unless you really expect to have machines with thousands of
cores.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit aa47a7c215e7 ("lib/cpumask: deprecate nr_cpumask_bits") resulted
in the cpumask operations potentially becoming hugely less efficient,
because suddenly the cpumask was always considered to be variable-sized.

The optimization was then later added back in a limited form by commit
6f9c07be9d02 ("lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option"), but that
FORCE_NR_CPUS option is not useful in a generic kernel and more of a
special case for embedded situations with fixed hardware.

Instead, just re-introduce the optimization, with some changes.

Instead of depending on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK being false, and then always
using the full constant cpumask width, this introduces three different
cpumask "sizes":

 - the exact size (nr_cpumask_bits) remains identical to nr_cpu_ids.

   This is used for situations where we should use the exact size.

 - the "small" size (small_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   fits in a single word and the bitmap operations thus end up able
   to trigger the "small_const_nbits()" optimizations.

   This is used for the operations that have optimized single-word
   cases that get inlined, notably the bit find and scanning functions.

 - the "large" size (large_cpumask_bits) is the NR_CPUS constant if it
   is an sufficiently small constant that makes simple "copy" and
   "clear" operations more efficient.

   This is arbitrarily set at four words or less.

As a an example of this situation, without this fixed size optimization,
cpumask_clear() will generate code like

        movl    nr_cpu_ids(%rip), %edx
        addq    $63, %rdx
        shrq    $3, %rdx
        andl    $-8, %edx
        callq   memset@PLT

on x86-64, because it would calculate the "exact" number of longwords
that need to be cleared.

In contrast, with this patch, using a MAX_CPU of 64 (which is quite a
reasonable value to use), the above becomes a single

	movq $0,cpumask

instruction instead, because instead of caring to figure out exactly how
many CPU's the system has, it just knows that the cpumask will be a
single word and can just clear it all.

Note that this does end up tightening the rules a bit from the original
version in another way: operations that set bits in the cpumask are now
limited to the actual nr_cpu_ids limit, whereas we used to do the
nr_cpumask_bits thing almost everywhere in the cpumask code.

But if you just clear bits, or scan for bits, we can use the simpler
compile-time constants.

In the process, remove 'cpumask_complement()' and 'for_each_cpu_not()'
which were not useful, and which fundamentally have to be limited to
'nr_cpu_ids'.  Better remove them now than have somebody introduce use
of them later.

Of course, on x86-64 with MAXSMP there is no sane small compile-time
constant for the cpumask sizes, and we end up using the actual CPU bits,
and will generate the above kind of horrors regardless.  Please don't
use MAXSMP unless you really expect to have machines with thousands of
cores.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ia64: fix typo in a comment</title>
<updated>2021-09-03T16:58:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>wangborong@cdjrlc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-02T21:49:58+00:00</published>
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s/when when/when/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817112500.12848-1-wangborong@cdjrlc.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;wangborong@cdjrlc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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s/when when/when/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817112500.12848-1-wangborong@cdjrlc.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;wangborong@cdjrlc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ia64: ensure proper NUMA distance and possible map initialization</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T18:20:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T05:53:27+00:00</published>
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John Paul reported a warning about bogus NUMA distance values spurred by
commit:

  620a6dc40754 ("sched/topology: Make sched_init_numa() use a set for the deduplicating sort")

In this case, the afflicted machine comes up with a reported 256 possible
nodes, all of which are 0 distance away from one another.  This was
previously silently ignored, but is now caught by the aforementioned
commit.

The culprit is ia64's node_possible_map which remains unchanged from its
initialization value of NODE_MASK_ALL.  In John's case, the machine
doesn't have any SRAT nor SLIT table, but AIUI the possible map remains
untouched regardless of what ACPI tables end up being parsed.  Thus,
!online &amp;&amp; possible nodes remain with a bogus distance of 0 (distances \in
[0, 9] are "reserved and have no meaning" as per the ACPI spec).

Follow x86 / drivers/base/arch_numa's example and set the possible map to
the parsed map, which in this case seems to be the online map.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/255d6b5d-194e-eb0e-ecdd-97477a534441@physik.fu-berlin.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210318130617.896309-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Fixes: 620a6dc40754 ("sched/topology: Make sched_init_numa() use a set for the deduplicating sort")
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Anatoly Pugachev &lt;matorola@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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John Paul reported a warning about bogus NUMA distance values spurred by
commit:

  620a6dc40754 ("sched/topology: Make sched_init_numa() use a set for the deduplicating sort")

In this case, the afflicted machine comes up with a reported 256 possible
nodes, all of which are 0 distance away from one another.  This was
previously silently ignored, but is now caught by the aforementioned
commit.

The culprit is ia64's node_possible_map which remains unchanged from its
initialization value of NODE_MASK_ALL.  In John's case, the machine
doesn't have any SRAT nor SLIT table, but AIUI the possible map remains
untouched regardless of what ACPI tables end up being parsed.  Thus,
!online &amp;&amp; possible nodes remain with a bogus distance of 0 (distances \in
[0, 9] are "reserved and have no meaning" as per the ACPI spec).

Follow x86 / drivers/base/arch_numa's example and set the possible map to
the parsed map, which in this case seems to be the online map.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/255d6b5d-194e-eb0e-ecdd-97477a534441@physik.fu-berlin.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210318130617.896309-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Fixes: 620a6dc40754 ("sched/topology: Make sched_init_numa() use a set for the deduplicating sort")
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Anatoly Pugachev &lt;matorola@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI/sleep: Convert acpi_wakeup_address into a function</title>
<updated>2019-12-10T09:15:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T16:54:16+00:00</published>
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Convert acpi_wakeup_address from a raw variable into a function so that
x86 can wrap its dereference of the real mode boot header in a function
instead of broadcasting it to the world via a #define.  This sets the
stage for a future patch to move x86's definition of the new function,
acpi_get_wakeup_address(), out of asm/acpi.h and thus break acpi.h's
dependency on asm/realmode.h.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191126165417.22423-12-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert acpi_wakeup_address from a raw variable into a function so that
x86 can wrap its dereference of the real mode boot header in a function
instead of broadcasting it to the world via a #define.  This sets the
stage for a future patch to move x86's definition of the new function,
acpi_get_wakeup_address(), out of asm/acpi.h and thus break acpi.h's
dependency on asm/realmode.h.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191126165417.22423-12-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: remove support for machvecs</title>
<updated>2019-08-16T21:32:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-13T07:25:12+00:00</published>
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The only thing remaining of the machvecs is a few checks if we are
running on an SGI UV system.  Replace those with the existing
is_uv_system() check that has been rewritten to simply check the
OEM ID directly.

That leaves us with a generic kernel that is as fast as the previous
DIG/ZX1/UV kernels, but can support all hardware.  Support for UV
and the HP SBA IOMMU is now optional based on new config options.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-27-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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The only thing remaining of the machvecs is a few checks if we are
running on an SGI UV system.  Replace those with the existing
is_uv_system() check that has been rewritten to simply check the
OEM ID directly.

That leaves us with a generic kernel that is as fast as the previous
DIG/ZX1/UV kernels, but can support all hardware.  Support for UV
and the HP SBA IOMMU is now optional based on new config options.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-27-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ia64: rework iommu probing</title>
<updated>2019-08-16T18:33:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-13T07:25:09+00:00</published>
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ia64 currently organizes the iommu probing along machves, which isn't
very helpful.  Instead just try to probe for Intel IOMMUs in mem_init
as they are properly described in ACPI and if none was found initialize
the swiotlb buffer.  The HP SBA handling is then only done delayed when
the actual hardware is probed. Only in the case that we actually found
usable IOMMUs we then set up the DMA ops and free the not needed
swiotlb buffer.  This scheme gets rid of the need for the dma_init
machvec operation, and the dig_vtd machvec.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-24-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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ia64 currently organizes the iommu probing along machves, which isn't
very helpful.  Instead just try to probe for Intel IOMMUs in mem_init
as they are properly described in ACPI and if none was found initialize
the swiotlb buffer.  The HP SBA handling is then only done delayed when
the actual hardware is probed. Only in the case that we actually found
usable IOMMUs we then set up the DMA ops and free the not needed
swiotlb buffer.  This scheme gets rid of the need for the dma_init
machvec operation, and the dig_vtd machvec.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-24-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ia64: remove support for the SGI SN2 platform</title>
<updated>2019-08-16T18:33:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-13T07:25:01+00:00</published>
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The SGI SN2 (early Altix) is a very non-standard IA64 platform that was
at the very high end of even IA64 hardware, and has been discontinued
a long time ago.  Remove it because there no upstream users left, and it
has magic hooks all over the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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The SGI SN2 (early Altix) is a very non-standard IA64 platform that was
at the very high end of even IA64 hardware, and has been discontinued
a long time ago.  Remove it because there no upstream users left, and it
has magic hooks all over the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:05+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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