linux.git/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c, 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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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

ia64: cleanup remove_siblinginfo()

2022-06-03T13:52:58+00:00

remove_siblinginfo() initialises variable 'last', but never uses it.
Drop unneeded code.

CC: Ingo Molnar 
CC: Peter Zijlstra 
CC: Valentin Schneider 
CC: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton

sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled

2021-05-12T11:01:45+00:00

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -> idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com

efi: ia64: move IA64-only declarations to new asm/efi.h header

2021-01-18T12:50:37+00:00

Move some EFI related declarations that are only referenced on IA64 to
a new asm/efi.h arch header.

Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

ia64: Remove perfmon

2020-09-11T16:34:32+00:00

perfmon has been marked broken and thus been disabled for all builds
for more than two years.  Remove it entirely.

Cc: Anant Thazhemadam 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Enthusiastically-ACKed-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911094920.1173631-1-hch@lst.de

mm: remove unneeded includes of

2020-08-07T18:33:26+00:00

Patch series "mm: cleanup usage of "

Most architectures have very similar versions of pXd_alloc_one() and
pXd_free_one() for intermediate levels of page table.  These patches add
generic versions of these functions in  and enable
use of the generic functions where appropriate.

In addition, functions declared and defined in  headers are
used mostly by core mm and early mm initialization in arch and there is no
actual reason to have the  included all over the place.
The first patch in this series removes unneeded includes of


In the end it didn't work out as neatly as I hoped and moving
pXd_alloc_track() definitions to  would require
unnecessary changes to arches that have custom page table allocations, so
I've decided to move lib/ioremap.c to mm/ and make pgalloc-track.h local
to mm/.

This patch (of 8):

In most cases  header is required only for allocations of
page table memory.  Most of the .c files that include that header do not
use symbols declared in  and do not require that header.

As for the other header files that used to include , it is
possible to move that include into the .c file that actually uses symbols
from  and drop the include from the header file.

The process was somewhat automated using

	sed -i -E '/[<"]asm\/pgalloc\.h/d' \
                $(grep -L -w -f /tmp/xx \
                        $(git grep -E -l '[<"]asm/pgalloc\.h'))

where /tmp/xx contains all the symbols defined in
arch/*/include/asm/pgalloc.h.

[rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix powerpc warning]

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 	[m68k]
Cc: Abdul Haleem 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Satheesh Rajendran 
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627143453.31835-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627143453.31835-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included

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

Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2.

The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are
duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once.  For
instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported
architectures.

Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils
down to, e.g.

static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address)
{
        return (address >> PMD_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1);
}

static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
{
        return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address);
}

These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided
XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined.

For architectures that really need a custom version there is always
possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic.

These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table
accessors to the new header.

This patch (of 12):

The linux/mm.h header includes  to allow inlining of the
functions involving page table manipulations, e.g.  pte_alloc() and
pmd_alloc().  So, there is no point to explicitly include 
in the files that include .

The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop:

	for f in $(git grep -l "include ") ; do
		sed -i -e '/include / d' $f
	done

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: Mike Rapoport 
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/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ia64: remove support for machvecs

2019-08-16T21:32:26+00:00

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 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-27-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

ia64: remove now unused machvec indirections

2019-08-16T18:33:57+00:00

With the SGI SN2 machvec removal most of the indirections are unused
now, so remove them.  This includes the entire removal of the mmio
read*/write* macros as the generic ones are identical to the
asm-generic/io.h version.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-17-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

ia64: remove support for the SGI SN2 platform

2019-08-16T18:33:57+00:00

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 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck