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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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

mm: use for_each_online_node and node_online instead of open coding

2022-04-29T21:36:58+00:00

Use more generic functions to deal with issues related to online nodes. 
The changes will make the code simplified.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220429030218.644635-1-liupeng256@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Peng Liu 
Suggested-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ia64: fix typo in a comment

2022-01-15T14:30:24+00:00

The double `the' in a comment is repeated, thus it should be removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211113030316.22650-1-wangborong@cdjrlc.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h

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

The replacement of  with  made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes.  Fix this up with the aid of
the below script and manual adjustments here and there.

	import sys
	import re

	if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
	    print "USAGE: %s  " % (sys.argv[0])
	    sys.exit(1)

	hdr_to_move="#include " % sys.argv[2]
	moved = False
	in_hdrs = False

	with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
	    lines = f.readlines()
	    for _line in lines:
		line = _line.rstrip('
')
		if line == hdr_to_move:
		    continue
		if line.startswith("#include 
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: 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/20200514170327.31389-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h

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

The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.

Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgtable.h and
make the latter include asm/pgtable.h.

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: 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/20200514170327.31389-3-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-07-08T17:39:56+00:00

Pull SMP/hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of updates for SMP and CPU hotplug:

   - Abort disabling secondary CPUs in the freezer when a wakeup is
     pending instead of evaluating it only after all CPUs have been
     offlined.

   - Remove the shared annotation for the strict per CPU cfd_data in the
     smp function call core code.

   - Remove the return values of smp_call_function() and on_each_cpu()
     as they are unconditionally 0. Fixup the few callers which actually
     bothered to check the return value"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  smp: Remove smp_call_function() and on_each_cpu() return values
  smp: Do not mark call_function_data as shared
  cpu/hotplug: Abort disabling secondary CPUs if wakeup is pending
  cpu/hotplug: Fix notify_cpu_starting() reference in bringup_wait_for_ap()

smp: Remove smp_call_function() and on_each_cpu() return values

2019-06-23T12:26:26+00:00

The return value is fixed. Remove it and amend the callers.

[ tglx: Fixup arm/bL_switcher and powerpc/rtas ]

Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613064813.8102-2-namit@vmware.com

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 206

2019-05-30T18:29:53+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as
  published by the free software foundation

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 107 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana 
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow 
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528171438.615055994@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman