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<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2024-01-18T17:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-18T17:48:40+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.8-rc1.
  Nothing major in here this release cycle, just lots of small cleanups
  and some tweaks on kernfs that in the very end, got reverted and will
  come back in a safer way next release cycle.

  Included in here are:

   - more driver core 'const' cleanups and fixes

   - fw_devlink=rpm is now the default behavior

   - kernfs tiny changes to remove some string functions

   - cpu handling in the driver core is updated to work better on many
     systems that add topologies and cpus after booting

   - other minor changes and cleanups

  All of the cpu handling patches have been acked by the respective
  maintainers and are coming in here in one series. Everything has been
  in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (51 commits)
  Revert "kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock"
  kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock
  class: fix use-after-free in class_register()
  PM: clk: make pm_clk_add_notifier() take a const pointer
  EDAC: constantify the struct bus_type usage
  kernfs: fix reference to renamed function
  driver core: device.h: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
  driver core: class: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
  driver core: mark remaining local bus_type variables as const
  driver core: container: make container_subsys const
  driver core: bus: constantify subsys_register() calls
  driver core: bus: make bus_sort_breadthfirst() take a const pointer
  kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing...
  driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_path_from_node_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_name_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk_ns() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  initramfs: Expose retained initrd as sysfs file
  fs/kernfs/dir: obey S_ISGID
  kernel/cgroup: use kernfs_create_dir_ns()
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.8-rc1.
  Nothing major in here this release cycle, just lots of small cleanups
  and some tweaks on kernfs that in the very end, got reverted and will
  come back in a safer way next release cycle.

  Included in here are:

   - more driver core 'const' cleanups and fixes

   - fw_devlink=rpm is now the default behavior

   - kernfs tiny changes to remove some string functions

   - cpu handling in the driver core is updated to work better on many
     systems that add topologies and cpus after booting

   - other minor changes and cleanups

  All of the cpu handling patches have been acked by the respective
  maintainers and are coming in here in one series. Everything has been
  in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (51 commits)
  Revert "kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock"
  kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock
  class: fix use-after-free in class_register()
  PM: clk: make pm_clk_add_notifier() take a const pointer
  EDAC: constantify the struct bus_type usage
  kernfs: fix reference to renamed function
  driver core: device.h: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
  driver core: class: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
  driver core: mark remaining local bus_type variables as const
  driver core: container: make container_subsys const
  driver core: bus: constantify subsys_register() calls
  driver core: bus: make bus_sort_breadthfirst() take a const pointer
  kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing...
  driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_path_from_node_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_name_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk_ns() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
  initramfs: Expose retained initrd as sysfs file
  fs/kernfs/dir: obey S_ISGID
  kernel/cgroup: use kernfs_create_dir_ns()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Move ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU to be disabled on arm64 and riscv</title>
<updated>2023-12-06T03:41:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-21T13:44:15+00:00</published>
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Neither arm64 nor riscv support physical hotadd of CPUs that were not
present at boot. For arm64 much of the platform description is in static
tables which do not have update methods. arm64 does support HOTPLUG_CPU,
which is backed by a firmware interface to turn CPUs on and off.

acpi_processor_hotadd_init() and acpi_processor_remove() are for adding
and removing CPUs that were not present at boot. arm64 systems that do this
are not supported as there is currently insufficient information in the
platform description. (e.g. did the GICR get removed too?)

arm64 currently relies on the MADT enabled flag check in map_gicc_mpidr()
to prevent CPUs that were not described as present at boot from being
added to the system. Similarly, riscv relies on the same check in
map_rintc_hartid(). Both architectures also rely on the weak 'always fails'
definitions of acpi_map_cpu() and arch_register_cpu().

Subsequent changes will redefine ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU as making possible
CPUs present. Neither arm64 nor riscv support this.

Disable ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU for arm64 and riscv by removing 'default y' and
selecting it on the other three ACPI architectures. This allows the weak
definitions of some symbols to be removed.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang &lt;shahuang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan &lt;gshan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Russell King (Oracle)" &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/E1r5R31-00Csyt-Jq@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Neither arm64 nor riscv support physical hotadd of CPUs that were not
present at boot. For arm64 much of the platform description is in static
tables which do not have update methods. arm64 does support HOTPLUG_CPU,
which is backed by a firmware interface to turn CPUs on and off.

acpi_processor_hotadd_init() and acpi_processor_remove() are for adding
and removing CPUs that were not present at boot. arm64 systems that do this
are not supported as there is currently insufficient information in the
platform description. (e.g. did the GICR get removed too?)

arm64 currently relies on the MADT enabled flag check in map_gicc_mpidr()
to prevent CPUs that were not described as present at boot from being
added to the system. Similarly, riscv relies on the same check in
map_rintc_hartid(). Both architectures also rely on the weak 'always fails'
definitions of acpi_map_cpu() and arch_register_cpu().

Subsequent changes will redefine ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU as making possible
CPUs present. Neither arm64 nor riscv support this.

Disable ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU for arm64 and riscv by removing 'default y' and
selecting it on the other three ACPI architectures. This allows the weak
definitions of some symbols to be removed.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang &lt;shahuang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan &lt;gshan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Russell King (Oracle)" &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/E1r5R31-00Csyt-Jq@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>thermal: ACPI: Move the ACPI thermal library to drivers/acpi/</title>
<updated>2023-11-21T14:04:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-17T20:05:23+00:00</published>
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The ACPI thermal library contains functions that can be used to
retrieve trip point temperature values through the platform firmware
for various types of trip points.  Each of these functions basically
evaluates a specific ACPI object, checks if the value produced by it
is reasonable and returns it (or THERMAL_TEMP_INVALID if anything
fails).

It made sense to hold it in drivers/thermal/ so long as it was only used
by the code in that directory, but since it is also going to be used by
the ACPI thermal driver located in drivers/acpi/, move it to the latter
in order to keep the code related to evaluating ACPI objects defined in
the specification proper together.

No intentional functional impact.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The ACPI thermal library contains functions that can be used to
retrieve trip point temperature values through the platform firmware
for various types of trip points.  Each of these functions basically
evaluates a specific ACPI object, checks if the value produced by it
is reasonable and returns it (or THERMAL_TEMP_INVALID if anything
fails).

It made sense to hold it in drivers/thermal/ so long as it was only used
by the code in that directory, but since it is also going to be used by
the ACPI thermal driver located in drivers/acpi/, move it to the latter
in order to keep the code related to evaluating ACPI objects defined in
the specification proper together.

No intentional functional impact.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl</title>
<updated>2023-11-05T02:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-05T02:20:36+00:00</published>
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Pull CXL (Compute Express Link) updates from Dan Williams:
 "The main new functionality this time is work to allow Linux to
  natively handle CXL link protocol errors signalled via PCIe AER for
  current generation CXL platforms. This required some enlightenment of
  the PCIe AER core to workaround the fact that current generation RCH
  (Restricted CXL Host) platforms physically hide topology details and
  registers via a mechanism called RCRB (Root Complex Register Block).

  The next major highlight is reworks to address bugs in parsing region
  configurations for next generation VH (Virtual Host) topologies. The
  old broken algorithm is replaced with a simpler one that significantly
  increases the number of region configurations supported by Linux. This
  is again relevant for error handling so that forward and reverse
  address translation of memory errors can be carried out by Linux for
  memory regions instantiated by platform firmware.

  As for other cross-tree work, the ACPI table parsing code has been
  refactored for reuse parsing the "CDAT" structure which is an
  ACPI-like data structure that is reported by CXL devices. That work is
  in preparation for v6.8 support for CXL QoS. Think of this as dynamic
  generation of NUMA node topology information generated by Linux rather
  than platform firmware.

  Lastly, a number of internal object lifetime issues have been resolved
  along with misc. fixes and feature updates (decoders_committed sysfs
  ABI).

  Summary:

   - Add support for RCH (Restricted CXL Host) Error recovery

   - Fix several region assembly bugs

   - Fix mem-device lifetime issues relative to the sanitize command and
     RCH topology.

   - Refactor ACPI table parsing for CDAT parsing re-use in preparation
     for CXL QOS support"

* tag 'cxl-for-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (50 commits)
  lib/fw_table: Remove acpi_parse_entries_array() export
  cxl/pci: Change CXL AER support check to use native AER
  cxl/hdm: Remove broken error path
  cxl/hdm: Fix &amp;&amp; vs || bug
  acpi: Move common tables helper functions to common lib
  cxl: Add support for reading CXL switch CDAT table
  cxl: Add checksum verification to CDAT from CXL
  cxl: Export QTG ids from CFMWS to sysfs as qos_class attribute
  cxl: Add decoders_committed sysfs attribute to cxl_port
  cxl: Add cxl_decoders_committed() helper
  cxl/core/regs: Rework cxl_map_pmu_regs() to use map-&gt;dev for devm
  cxl/core/regs: Rename phys_addr in cxl_map_component_regs()
  PCI/AER: Unmask RCEC internal errors to enable RCH downstream port error handling
  PCI/AER: Forward RCH downstream port-detected errors to the CXL.mem dev handler
  cxl/pci: Disable root port interrupts in RCH mode
  cxl/pci: Add RCH downstream port error logging
  cxl/pci: Map RCH downstream AER registers for logging protocol errors
  cxl/pci: Update CXL error logging to use RAS register address
  PCI/AER: Refactor cper_print_aer() for use by CXL driver module
  cxl/pci: Add RCH downstream port AER register discovery
  ...
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Pull CXL (Compute Express Link) updates from Dan Williams:
 "The main new functionality this time is work to allow Linux to
  natively handle CXL link protocol errors signalled via PCIe AER for
  current generation CXL platforms. This required some enlightenment of
  the PCIe AER core to workaround the fact that current generation RCH
  (Restricted CXL Host) platforms physically hide topology details and
  registers via a mechanism called RCRB (Root Complex Register Block).

  The next major highlight is reworks to address bugs in parsing region
  configurations for next generation VH (Virtual Host) topologies. The
  old broken algorithm is replaced with a simpler one that significantly
  increases the number of region configurations supported by Linux. This
  is again relevant for error handling so that forward and reverse
  address translation of memory errors can be carried out by Linux for
  memory regions instantiated by platform firmware.

  As for other cross-tree work, the ACPI table parsing code has been
  refactored for reuse parsing the "CDAT" structure which is an
  ACPI-like data structure that is reported by CXL devices. That work is
  in preparation for v6.8 support for CXL QoS. Think of this as dynamic
  generation of NUMA node topology information generated by Linux rather
  than platform firmware.

  Lastly, a number of internal object lifetime issues have been resolved
  along with misc. fixes and feature updates (decoders_committed sysfs
  ABI).

  Summary:

   - Add support for RCH (Restricted CXL Host) Error recovery

   - Fix several region assembly bugs

   - Fix mem-device lifetime issues relative to the sanitize command and
     RCH topology.

   - Refactor ACPI table parsing for CDAT parsing re-use in preparation
     for CXL QOS support"

* tag 'cxl-for-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (50 commits)
  lib/fw_table: Remove acpi_parse_entries_array() export
  cxl/pci: Change CXL AER support check to use native AER
  cxl/hdm: Remove broken error path
  cxl/hdm: Fix &amp;&amp; vs || bug
  acpi: Move common tables helper functions to common lib
  cxl: Add support for reading CXL switch CDAT table
  cxl: Add checksum verification to CDAT from CXL
  cxl: Export QTG ids from CFMWS to sysfs as qos_class attribute
  cxl: Add decoders_committed sysfs attribute to cxl_port
  cxl: Add cxl_decoders_committed() helper
  cxl/core/regs: Rework cxl_map_pmu_regs() to use map-&gt;dev for devm
  cxl/core/regs: Rename phys_addr in cxl_map_component_regs()
  PCI/AER: Unmask RCEC internal errors to enable RCH downstream port error handling
  PCI/AER: Forward RCH downstream port-detected errors to the CXL.mem dev handler
  cxl/pci: Disable root port interrupts in RCH mode
  cxl/pci: Add RCH downstream port error logging
  cxl/pci: Map RCH downstream AER registers for logging protocol errors
  cxl/pci: Update CXL error logging to use RAS register address
  PCI/AER: Refactor cper_print_aer() for use by CXL driver module
  cxl/pci: Add RCH downstream port AER register discovery
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi: Move common tables helper functions to common lib</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T03:48:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Jiang</name>
<email>dave.jiang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-12T18:53:54+00:00</published>
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Some of the routines in ACPI driver/acpi/tables.c can be shared with
parsing CDAT. CDAT is a device-provided data structure that is formatted
similar to a platform provided ACPI table. CDAT is used by CXL and can
exist on platforms that do not use ACPI. Split out the common routine
from ACPI to accommodate platforms that do not support ACPI and move that
to /lib. The common routines can be built outside of ACPI if
FIRMWARE_TABLES is selected.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/CAJZ5v0jipbtTNnsA0-o5ozOk8ZgWnOg34m34a9pPenTyRLj=6A@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/169713683430.2205276.17899451119920103445.stgit@djiang5-mobl3
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Some of the routines in ACPI driver/acpi/tables.c can be shared with
parsing CDAT. CDAT is a device-provided data structure that is formatted
similar to a platform provided ACPI table. CDAT is used by CXL and can
exist on platforms that do not use ACPI. Split out the common routine
from ACPI to accommodate platforms that do not support ACPI and move that
to /lib. The common routines can be built outside of ACPI if
FIRMWARE_TABLES is selected.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/CAJZ5v0jipbtTNnsA0-o5ozOk8ZgWnOg34m34a9pPenTyRLj=6A@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/169713683430.2205276.17899451119920103445.stgit@djiang5-mobl3
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi/prmt: Use EFI runtime sandbox to invoke PRM handlers</title>
<updated>2023-08-22T08:39:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-02T09:57:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5894cf571e14fb393a4d0a82538de032127b9d8b'/>
<id>5894cf571e14fb393a4d0a82538de032127b9d8b</id>
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Instead of bypassing the kernel's adaptation layer for performing EFI
runtime calls, wire up ACPI PRM handling into it. This means these calls
can no longer occur concurrently with EFI runtime calls, and will be
made from the EFI runtime workqueue. It also means any page faults
occurring during PRM handling will be identified correctly as
originating in firmware code.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Instead of bypassing the kernel's adaptation layer for performing EFI
runtime calls, wire up ACPI PRM handling into it. This means these calls
can no longer occur concurrently with EFI runtime calls, and will be
made from the EFI runtime workqueue. It also means any page faults
occurring during PRM handling will be identified correctly as
originating in firmware code.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LoongArch: Add SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) support</title>
<updated>2023-06-29T12:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huacai Chen</name>
<email>chenhuacai@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-29T12:58:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f6f0c9a74a48448583c3cb0f3f067bc3fe0f13c6'/>
<id>f6f0c9a74a48448583c3cb0f3f067bc3fe0f13c6</id>
<content type='text'>
Loongson-3A6000 has SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) support, each
physical core has two logical cores (threads). This patch add SMT probe
and scheduler support via ACPI PPTT.

If SCHED_SMT enabled, Loongson-3A6000 is treated as 4 cores, 8 threads;
If SCHED_SMT disabled, Loongson-3A6000 is treated as 8 cores, 8 threads.

Remove smp_num_siblings to support HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing).

Signed-off-by: Liupu Wang &lt;wangliupu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
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Loongson-3A6000 has SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) support, each
physical core has two logical cores (threads). This patch add SMT probe
and scheduler support via ACPI PPTT.

If SCHED_SMT enabled, Loongson-3A6000 is treated as 4 cores, 8 threads;
If SCHED_SMT disabled, Loongson-3A6000 is treated as 8 cores, 8 threads.

Remove smp_num_siblings to support HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing).

Signed-off-by: Liupu Wang &lt;wangliupu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'acpi-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T21:38:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T21:38:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=456ed864fd907d5f5484c7c4795da212537842fe'/>
<id>456ed864fd907d5f5484c7c4795da212537842fe</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ACPI and PNP updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These include new code (for instance, support for the FFH address
  space type and support for new firmware data structures in ACPICA),
  some new quirks (mostly related to backlight handling and I2C
  enumeration), a number of fixes and a fair amount of cleanups all
  over.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20221020 upstream
     version and fix a couple of issues in it:
      - Make acpi_ex_load_op() match upstream implementation (Rafael
        Wysocki)
      - Add support for loong_arch-specific APICs in MADT (Huacai Chen)
      - Add support for fixed PCIe wake event (Huacai Chen)
      - Add EBDA pointer sanity checks (Vit Kabele)
      - Avoid accessing VGA memory when EBDA &lt; 1KiB (Vit Kabele)
      - Add CCEL table support to both compiler/disassembler (Kuppuswamy
        Sathyanarayanan)
      - Add a couple of new UUIDs to the known UUID list (Bob Moore)
      - Add support for FFH Opregion special context data (Sudeep
        Holla)
      - Improve warning message for "invalid ACPI name" (Bob Moore)
      - Add support for CXL 3.0 structures (CXIMS &amp; RDPAS) in the CEDT
        table (Alison Schofield)
      - Prepare IORT support for revision E.e (Robin Murphy)
      - Finish support for the CDAT table (Bob Moore)
      - Fix error code path in acpi_ds_call_control_method() (Rafael
        Wysocki)
      - Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage() (Li
        Zetao)
      - Update the version of the ACPICA code in the kernel (Bob Moore)

   - Use ZERO_PAGE(0) instead of empty_zero_page in the ACPI device
     enumeration code (Giulio Benetti)

   - Change the return type of the ACPI driver remove callback to void
     and update its users accordingly (Dawei Li)

   - Add general support for FFH address space type and implement the
     low- level part of it for ARM64 (Sudeep Holla)

   - Fix stale comments in the ACPI tables parsing code and make it
     print more messages related to MADT (Hanjun Guo, Huacai Chen)

   - Replace invocations of generic library functions with more kernel-
     specific counterparts in the ACPI sysfs interface (Christophe
     JAILLET, Xu Panda)

   - Print full name paths of ACPI power resource objects during
     enumeration (Kane Chen)

   - Eliminate a compiler warning regarding a missing function prototype
     in the ACPI power management code (Sudeep Holla)

   - Fix and clean up the ACPI processor driver (Rafael Wysocki, Li
     Zhong, Colin Ian King, Sudeep Holla)

   - Add quirk for the HP Pavilion Gaming 15-cx0041ur to the ACPI EC
     driver (Mia Kanashi)

   - Add some mew ACPI backlight handling quirks and update some
     existing ones (Hans de Goede)

   - Make the ACPI backlight driver prefer the native backlight control
     over vendor backlight control when possible (Hans de Goede)

   - Drop unsetting ACPI APEI driver data on remove (Uwe Kleine-König)

   - Use xchg_release() instead of cmpxchg() for updating new GHES cache
     slots (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Clean up the ACPI APEI code (Sudeep Holla, Christophe JAILLET, Jay
     Lu)

   - Add new I2C device enumeration quirks for Medion Lifetab S10346 and
     Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro (YT3-X90F) (Hans de Goede)

   - Make the ACPI battery driver notify user space about adding new
     battery hooks and removing the existing ones (Armin Wolf)

   - Modify the pfr_update and pfr_telemetry drivers to use ACPI_FREE()
     for freeing acpi_object structures to help diagnostics (Wang
     ShaoBo)

   - Make the ACPI fan driver use sysfs_emit_at() in its sysfs interface
     code (ye xingchen)

   - Fix the _FIF package extraction failure handling in the ACPI fan
     driver (Hanjun Guo)

   - Fix the PCC mailbox handling error code path (Huisong Li)

   - Avoid using PCC Opregions if there is no platform interrupt
     allocated for this purpose (Huisong Li)

   - Use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf() in the ACPI PAD driver and
     CPPC library (ye xingchen)

   - Fix some kernel-doc issues in the ACPI GSI processing code
     (Xiongfeng Wang)

   - Fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev() (Yang Yingliang)

   - Do not disable PNP devices on suspend when they cannot be
     re-enabled on resume (Hans de Goede)

   - Clean up the ACPI thermal driver a bit (Rafael Wysocki)"

* tag 'acpi-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (67 commits)
  ACPI: x86: Add skip i2c clients quirk for Medion Lifetab S10346
  ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Refactor available_error_type_show()
  ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix formatting errors
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Adjust acpi_processor_notify_smm() return value
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Rearrange acpi_processor_notify_smm()
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Rearrange unregistration routine
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Drop redundant parentheses
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Adjust white space
  ACPI: processor: idle: Drop unnecessary statements and parens
  ACPI: thermal: Adjust critical.flags.valid check
  ACPI: fan: Convert to use sysfs_emit_at() API
  ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()
  ACPI: battery: Call power_supply_changed() when adding hooks
  ACPI: use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf()
  ACPI: x86: Add skip i2c clients quirk for Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro (YT3-X90F)
  ACPI: APEI: Remove a useless include
  PNP: Do not disable devices on suspend when they cannot be re-enabled on resume
  ACPI: processor: Silence missing prototype warnings
  ACPI: processor_idle: Silence missing prototype warnings
  ACPI: PM: Silence missing prototype warning
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull ACPI and PNP updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These include new code (for instance, support for the FFH address
  space type and support for new firmware data structures in ACPICA),
  some new quirks (mostly related to backlight handling and I2C
  enumeration), a number of fixes and a fair amount of cleanups all
  over.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20221020 upstream
     version and fix a couple of issues in it:
      - Make acpi_ex_load_op() match upstream implementation (Rafael
        Wysocki)
      - Add support for loong_arch-specific APICs in MADT (Huacai Chen)
      - Add support for fixed PCIe wake event (Huacai Chen)
      - Add EBDA pointer sanity checks (Vit Kabele)
      - Avoid accessing VGA memory when EBDA &lt; 1KiB (Vit Kabele)
      - Add CCEL table support to both compiler/disassembler (Kuppuswamy
        Sathyanarayanan)
      - Add a couple of new UUIDs to the known UUID list (Bob Moore)
      - Add support for FFH Opregion special context data (Sudeep
        Holla)
      - Improve warning message for "invalid ACPI name" (Bob Moore)
      - Add support for CXL 3.0 structures (CXIMS &amp; RDPAS) in the CEDT
        table (Alison Schofield)
      - Prepare IORT support for revision E.e (Robin Murphy)
      - Finish support for the CDAT table (Bob Moore)
      - Fix error code path in acpi_ds_call_control_method() (Rafael
        Wysocki)
      - Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage() (Li
        Zetao)
      - Update the version of the ACPICA code in the kernel (Bob Moore)

   - Use ZERO_PAGE(0) instead of empty_zero_page in the ACPI device
     enumeration code (Giulio Benetti)

   - Change the return type of the ACPI driver remove callback to void
     and update its users accordingly (Dawei Li)

   - Add general support for FFH address space type and implement the
     low- level part of it for ARM64 (Sudeep Holla)

   - Fix stale comments in the ACPI tables parsing code and make it
     print more messages related to MADT (Hanjun Guo, Huacai Chen)

   - Replace invocations of generic library functions with more kernel-
     specific counterparts in the ACPI sysfs interface (Christophe
     JAILLET, Xu Panda)

   - Print full name paths of ACPI power resource objects during
     enumeration (Kane Chen)

   - Eliminate a compiler warning regarding a missing function prototype
     in the ACPI power management code (Sudeep Holla)

   - Fix and clean up the ACPI processor driver (Rafael Wysocki, Li
     Zhong, Colin Ian King, Sudeep Holla)

   - Add quirk for the HP Pavilion Gaming 15-cx0041ur to the ACPI EC
     driver (Mia Kanashi)

   - Add some mew ACPI backlight handling quirks and update some
     existing ones (Hans de Goede)

   - Make the ACPI backlight driver prefer the native backlight control
     over vendor backlight control when possible (Hans de Goede)

   - Drop unsetting ACPI APEI driver data on remove (Uwe Kleine-König)

   - Use xchg_release() instead of cmpxchg() for updating new GHES cache
     slots (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Clean up the ACPI APEI code (Sudeep Holla, Christophe JAILLET, Jay
     Lu)

   - Add new I2C device enumeration quirks for Medion Lifetab S10346 and
     Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro (YT3-X90F) (Hans de Goede)

   - Make the ACPI battery driver notify user space about adding new
     battery hooks and removing the existing ones (Armin Wolf)

   - Modify the pfr_update and pfr_telemetry drivers to use ACPI_FREE()
     for freeing acpi_object structures to help diagnostics (Wang
     ShaoBo)

   - Make the ACPI fan driver use sysfs_emit_at() in its sysfs interface
     code (ye xingchen)

   - Fix the _FIF package extraction failure handling in the ACPI fan
     driver (Hanjun Guo)

   - Fix the PCC mailbox handling error code path (Huisong Li)

   - Avoid using PCC Opregions if there is no platform interrupt
     allocated for this purpose (Huisong Li)

   - Use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf() in the ACPI PAD driver and
     CPPC library (ye xingchen)

   - Fix some kernel-doc issues in the ACPI GSI processing code
     (Xiongfeng Wang)

   - Fix name memory leak in pnp_alloc_dev() (Yang Yingliang)

   - Do not disable PNP devices on suspend when they cannot be
     re-enabled on resume (Hans de Goede)

   - Clean up the ACPI thermal driver a bit (Rafael Wysocki)"

* tag 'acpi-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (67 commits)
  ACPI: x86: Add skip i2c clients quirk for Medion Lifetab S10346
  ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Refactor available_error_type_show()
  ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Fix formatting errors
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Adjust acpi_processor_notify_smm() return value
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Rearrange acpi_processor_notify_smm()
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Rearrange unregistration routine
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Drop redundant parentheses
  ACPI: processor: perflib: Adjust white space
  ACPI: processor: idle: Drop unnecessary statements and parens
  ACPI: thermal: Adjust critical.flags.valid check
  ACPI: fan: Convert to use sysfs_emit_at() API
  ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ut_copy_ipackage_to_ipackage()
  ACPI: battery: Call power_supply_changed() when adding hooks
  ACPI: use sysfs_emit() instead of scnprintf()
  ACPI: x86: Add skip i2c clients quirk for Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 Pro (YT3-X90F)
  ACPI: APEI: Remove a useless include
  PNP: Do not disable devices on suspend when they cannot be re-enabled on resume
  ACPI: processor: Silence missing prototype warnings
  ACPI: processor_idle: Silence missing prototype warnings
  ACPI: PM: Silence missing prototype warning
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Implement a generic FFH Opregion handler</title>
<updated>2022-11-14T18:09:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sudeep Holla</name>
<email>sudeep.holla@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-10T13:45:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e81c782c16844dc758a784899c2fe5260386211b'/>
<id>e81c782c16844dc758a784899c2fe5260386211b</id>
<content type='text'>
This registers the FFH OpRegion handler before ACPI tables are
loaded. The platform support for the same is checked via Platform-Wide
OSPM Capabilities(OSC) before registering the OpRegion handler.

It relies on the special context data passed to offset and the length.
However the interpretation of the values is platform/architecture
specific. This generic handler just passed all the information to
the platform/architecture specific callback. It also implements the
default callbacks which return as not supported.

Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This registers the FFH OpRegion handler before ACPI tables are
loaded. The platform support for the same is checked via Platform-Wide
OSPM Capabilities(OSC) before registering the OpRegion handler.

It relies on the special context data passed to offset and the length.
However the interpretation of the values is platform/architecture
specific. This generic handler just passed all the information to
the platform/architecture specific callback. It also implements the
default callbacks which return as not supported.

Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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