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2018-06-15Kbuild: rename HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR config variableMasahiro Yamada
HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR should be selected by architectures with stack canary implementation. It is not about the compiler support. For the consistency with commit 050e9baa9dc9 ("Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables"), remove 'CC_' from the config symbol. I moved the 'select' lines to keep the alphabetical sorting. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-07mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIALLaurent Dufour
Currently the PTE special supports is turned on in per architecture header files. Most of the time, it is defined in arch/*/include/asm/pgtable.h depending or not on some other per architecture static definition. This patch introduce a new configuration variable to manage this directly in the Kconfig files. It would later replace __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL. Here notes for some architecture where the definition of __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is not obvious: arm __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL which is currently defined in arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h which is included by arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h when CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is set. So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if ARM_LPAE. powerpc __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is defined in 2 files: - arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h - arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h The first one is included if (PPC_BOOK3S & PPC64) while the second is included in all the other cases. So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL all the time. sparc: __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL is defined if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__) which are defined through the compiler in sparc/Makefile if !SPARC32 which I assume to be if SPARC64. So select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if SPARC64 There is no functional change introduced by this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523433816-14460-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> Cc: Albert Ou <albert@sifive.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-04Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...
2018-05-10Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for ↵Jonathan Corbet
'pte_special'" The removal of this file appears to have been premature; it's not a feature enabled by Kconfig, but it's a arch-level feature regardless. Put it back for now until some happy future time when we decide how we really want to document such features. This reverts commit 2bef69a385b4c1c01d8abae0aa035f0ffa051f07. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'Andrea Parri
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08Documentation/features/lib: Remove arch support status file for 'strncasecmp'Andrea Parri
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08Documentation/features/locking: Use '!RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK' as Kconfig for ↵Andrea Parri
'rwsem-optimized' Uses '!RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK' in place of 'Optimized asm/rwsem.h' as Kconfig for 'rwsem-optimized': the new Kconfig expresses this feature equivalently, while also enabling the script 'features-refresh.sh' to operate on the corresponding arch support status file. Also refreshes the status matrix by using the script 'features-refresh.sh'. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08Documentation/features/core: Add arch support status files for 'cBPF-JIT' ↵Andrea Parri
and 'eBPF-JIT' Commit 6077776b5908e split 'HAVE_BPF_JIT' into cBPF and eBPF variant. Adds arch support status files for the new variants, and removes the status file corresponding to 'HAVE_BPT_JIT'. The new status matrices were auto-generated using the script 'features-refresh.sh'. Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files in placeAndrea Parri
Now that the script 'features-refresh.sh' is available, uses this script to refresh all the arch-support.txt files in place. Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08Documentation/features: Add script that refreshes the arch support status ↵Andrea Parri
files in place Provides the script: Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh which operates on the arch-support.txt files and refreshes them in place. This way [1], "[...] we soft- decouple the refreshing of the entries from the introduction of the features, while still making it all easy to keep sync and to extend." [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180328122211.GA25420@andrea Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08dma-debug: remove CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUGChristoph Hellwig
There is no arch specific code required for dma-debug, so there is no need to opt into the support either. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
2018-04-02Merge tag 'arch-removal' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports from Arnd Bergmann: "This removes the entire architecture code for blackfin, cris, frv, m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile, including the associated device drivers. I have been working with the (former) maintainers for each one to ensure that my interpretation was right and the code is definitely unused in mainline kernels. Many had fond memories of working on the respective ports to start with and getting them included in upstream, but also saw no point in keeping the port alive without any users. In the end, it seems that while the eight architectures are extremely different, they all suffered the same fate: There was one company in charge of an SoC line, a CPU microarchitecture and a software ecosystem, which was more costly than licensing newer off-the-shelf CPU cores from a third party (typically ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V). It seems that all the SoC product lines are still around, but have not used the custom CPU architectures for several years at this point. In contrast, CPU instruction sets that remain popular and have actively maintained kernel ports tend to all be used across multiple licensees. [ See the new nds32 port merged in the previous commit for the next generation of "one company in charge of an SoC line, a CPU microarchitecture and a software ecosystem" - Linus ] The removal came out of a discussion that is now documented at https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/. Unlike the original plans, I'm not marking any ports as deprecated but remove them all at once after I made sure that they are all unused. Some architectures (notably tile, mn10300, and blackfin) are still being shipped in products with old kernels, but those products will never be updated to newer kernel releases. After this series, we still have a few architectures without mainline gcc support: - unicore32 and hexagon both have very outdated gcc releases, but the maintainers promised to work on providing something newer. At least in case of hexagon, this will only be llvm, not gcc. - openrisc, risc-v and nds32 are still in the process of finishing their support or getting it added to mainline gcc in the first place. They all have patched gcc-7.3 ports that work to some degree, but complete upstream support won't happen before gcc-8.1. Csky posted their first kernel patch set last week, their situation will be similar [ Palmer Dabbelt points out that RISC-V support is in mainline gcc since gcc-7, although gcc-7.3.0 is the recommended minimum - Linus ]" This really says it all: 2498 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 467668 deletions(-) * tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (74 commits) MAINTAINERS: UNICORE32: Change email account staging: iio: remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver tty: hvc: remove tile driver tty: remove bfin_jtag_comm and hvc_bfin_jtag drivers serial: remove tile uart driver serial: remove m32r_sio driver serial: remove blackfin drivers serial: remove cris/etrax uart drivers usb: Remove Blackfin references in USB support usb: isp1362: remove blackfin arch glue usb: musb: remove blackfin port usb: host: remove tilegx platform glue pwm: remove pwm-bfin driver i2c: remove bfin-twi driver spi: remove blackfin related host drivers watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver can: remove bfin_can driver mmc: remove bfin_sdh driver input: misc: remove blackfin rotary driver input: keyboard: remove bf54x driver ...
2018-03-26Documentation: arch-support: remove obsolete architecturesArnd Bergmann
A number of architecture ports are obsolete and getting dropped, so we no longer want to track the respective features. We already removed the lines for metag and mn10300, this does the same edits for all the others. For the remaining 21 architectures, this shows how many are known to implement each given feature: 19 time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt 19 time/clockevents/arch-support.txt 15 core/tracehook/arch-support.txt 14 core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt 13 locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt 12 io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt 11 debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt 10 time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt 9 debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt 9 debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt 8 vm/THP/arch-support.txt 8 vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt 8 vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt 8 io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt 7 perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt 7 locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt 7 debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt 7 core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt 7 core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt 6 vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt 6 time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt 6 seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt 6 debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt 5 time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt 5 io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt 5 debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt 4 vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt 4 time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt 4 perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt 4 perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt 3 debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt 2 vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt 2 vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt 2 sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt 2 sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt 2 locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt 2 debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt 2 debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt 1 vm/TLB/arch-support.txt 1 locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt 1 locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt 1 debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt 0 lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt Note that the list does not include riscv or nds32 yet, these still need to be added. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-09mn10300: Remove the architectureDavid Howells
Remove the MN10300 arch as the hardware is defunct. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-02-22docs: Remove remaining references to metagJames Hogan
Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2018-02-11Documentation/features, membarriers: Document membarrier-sync-core ↵Mathieu Desnoyers
architecture support Ensure we gather architecture requirements about each architecture supporting the "sync_core" membarrier command in a single file under Documentation/features. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com> Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518208256-22034-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-11Documentation/features: Allow comments in arch features filesMathieu Desnoyers
The list-arch.sh script considers lines beginning with "#" as match for the feature table. Given that those tables are never in lines beginning with "#", add a reverse grep on "^#" when matching the "ok/TODO" state of the architecture. This allows adding comments within the feature files, for instance describing the architecture requirements for the feature in each architecture. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518282058-24226-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-10membarrier-sync-core: Document architecture supportMathieu Desnoyers
Ensure we gather architecture requirements about each architecture supporting the "sync_core" membarrier command in a single file under Documentation/features. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> Cc: David Sehr <sehr@google.com> Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Maged Michael <maged.michael@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518208256-22034-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-01-29Merge tag 'xtensa-20180129' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensaLinus Torvalds
Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov: - add SSP support - add KASAN support - improvements to xtensa-specific assembly: - use ENTRY and ENDPROC consistently - clean up and unify word alignment macros - clean up and unify fixup marking - use 'call' instead of 'callx' where possible - various cleanups: - consiolidate kernel stack size related definitions - replace #ifdef'fed/commented out debug printk statements with pr_debug - use struct exc_table instead of flat array for exception handling data - build kernel with -mtext-section-literals; simplify xtensa linker script - fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() * tag 'xtensa-20180129' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa: (21 commits) xtensa: fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic xtensa: shut up gcc-8 warnings xtensa: print kernel sections info in mem_init xtensa: use generic strncpy_from_user with KASAN xtensa: use __memset in __xtensa_clear_user xtensa: add support for KASAN xtensa: move fixmap and kmap just above the KSEG xtensa: don't clear swapper_pg_dir in paging_init xtensa: extract init_kio xtensa: implement early_trap_init xtensa: clean up exception handling structure xtensa: clean up custom-controlled debug output xtensa: enable stack protector xtensa: print hardware config ID on startup xtensa: consolidate kernel stack size related definitions xtensa: clean up functions in assembly code xtensa: clean up word alignment macros in assembly code xtensa: clean up fixups in assembly code xtensa: use call instead of callx in assembly code xtensa: build kernel with text-section-literals ...
2017-12-16xtensa: add support for KASANMax Filippov
Cover kernel addresses above 0x90000000 by the shadow map. Enable HAVE_ARCH_KASAN when MMU is enabled. Provide kasan_early_init that fills shadow map with writable copies of kasan_zero_page. Call kasan_early_init right after mmu initialization in the setup_arch. Provide kasan_init that allocates proper shadow map pages from the memblock and puts these pages into the shadow map for addresses from VMALLOC area to the end of KSEG. Call kasan_init right after memblock initialization. Don't use KASAN for the boot code, MMU and KASAN initialization and page fault handler. Make kernel stack size 4 times larger when KASAN is enabled to avoid stack overflows. GCC 7.3, 8 or newer is required to build the xtensa kernel with KASAN. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
2017-12-16xtensa: enable stack protectorMax Filippov
The implementation is adopted from the ARM arch. GCC 7.3, 8 or newer is required for building the xtensa kernel with SSP. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
2017-10-03Documentation/features/KASAN: mark KASAN as supported only on 64-bit on x86Adam Borowski
Relevant part is: arch/x86/Kconfig: select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64 && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-08-07docs/features: parisc implements tracehookJames Hogan
Since commit 64e2a42bca12 ("parisc: Add ARCH_TRACEHOOK and regset support") in v4.7, parisc selects HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK, so update its entry in Documentation/features from TODO to ok. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-05Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap(). - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller. - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9. - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0". - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and runtime. - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE. - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts, correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should aid debugging and robustness. - Many fixes and other minor enhancements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy, Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin, Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar, Yang Shi" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits) powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2 powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset() powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event() cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected() cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory ...
2017-05-01docs: remove all references to AVR32 architectureHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt
The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel, hence remove all references to it from Documentation. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-24powerpc/kprobes: Add support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACENaveen N. Rao
Allow kprobes to be placed on ftrace _mcount() call sites. This optimization avoids the use of a trap, by riding on ftrace infrastructure. This depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS which depends on MPROFILE_KERNEL, which is only currently enabled on powerpc64le with newer toolchains. Based on the x86 code by Masami. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-12-23Merge tag 'arc-4.10-rc1-part2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc Pull more ARC updates from Vineet Gupta: - Fix for aliasing VIPT dcache in old ARC700 cores - micro-optimization in ARC700 ProtV handler - Enable SG_CHAIN [Vladimir] - ARC HS38 core intc default to prio 1 * tag 'arc-4.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: ARC: mm: arc700: Don't assume 2 colours for aliasing VIPT dcache ARC: mm: No need to save cache version in @cpuinfo ARC: enable SG chaining ARCv2: intc: default all interrupts to priority 1 ARCv2: entry: document intr disable in hard isr ARC: ARCompact entry: elide re-reading ECR in ProtV handler
2016-12-18ARC: enable SG chainingVladimir Kondratiev
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2016-12-15xtensa: update DMA-related Documentation/features entriesMax Filippov
xtensa supports DMA API debug and contiguous DMA, mark it as such. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
2016-10-13Documentation: MIPS supports HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_APIRalf Baechle
This should have been part of 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.'). Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Fixes: 40e084a506eb ("MIPS: Add uprobes support.") Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14392/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2016-05-11powerpc: Add HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP supportChandan Kumar
With perf regs support enabled for powerpc, in commit ed4a4ef85cf5 ("powerpc/perf: Add support for sampling interrupt register state"), the support for obtaining perf user stack dump is already enabled. This patch declares the support for same and also updates documentation to mark the support for perf-regs and perf-stackdump. Signed-off-by: Chandan Kumar <chandan.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-03-17Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6. There are some relatively intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel virtual memory layout and initial page table creation. Summary: - Initial page table creation reworked to avoid breaking large block mappings (huge pages) into smaller ones. The ARM architecture requires break-before-make in such cases to avoid TLB conflicts but that's not always possible on live page tables - Kernel virtual memory layout: the kernel image is no longer linked to the bottom of the linear mapping (PAGE_OFFSET) but at the bottom of the vmalloc space, allowing the kernel to be loaded (nearly) anywhere in physical RAM - Kernel ASLR: position independent kernel Image and modules being randomly mapped in the vmalloc space with the randomness is provided by UEFI (efi_get_random_bytes() patches merged via the arm64 tree, acked by Matt Fleming) - Implement relative exception tables for arm64, required by KASLR (initial code for ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE added to lib/extable.c but actual x86 conversion to deferred to 4.7 because of the merge dependencies) - Support for the User Access Override feature of ARMv8.2: this allows uaccess functions (get_user etc.) to be implemented using LDTR/STTR instructions. Such instructions, when run by the kernel, perform unprivileged accesses adding an extra level of protection. The set_fs() macro is used to "upgrade" such instruction to privileged accesses via the UAO bit - Half-precision floating point support (part of ARMv8.2) - Optimisations for CPUs with or without a hardware prefetcher (using run-time code patching) - copy_page performance improvement to deal with 128 bytes at a time - Sanity checks on the CPU capabilities (via CPUID) to prevent incompatible secondary CPUs from being brought up (e.g. weird big.LITTLE configurations) - valid_user_regs() reworked for better sanity check of the sigcontext information (restored pstate information) - ACPI parking protocol implementation - CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA enabled by default - VDSO code marked as read-only - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support - ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL enabled - Erratum workaround Cavium ThunderX SoC - set_pte_at() fix for PROT_NONE mappings - Code clean-ups" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (99 commits) arm64: kasan: Fix zero shadow mapping overriding kernel image shadow arm64: kasan: Use actual memory node when populating the kernel image shadow arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission arm64: Fix misspellings in comments. arm64: efi: add missing frame pointer assignment arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default arm64: Rework valid_user_regs arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly arm64: KVM: Move kvm_call_hyp back to its original localtion arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity arm64: mm: list kernel sections in order arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT arm64: mm: dump: Use VA_START directly instead of private LOWEST_ADDR arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features arm64: kernel: acpi: fix ioremap in ACPI parking protocol cpu_postboot arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point arm64: Remove fixmap include fragility arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456 arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO ...
2016-02-18arm64: add support for ioremap() block mappingsArd Biesheuvel
This wires up the existing generic huge-vmap feature, which allows ioremap() to use PMD or PUD sized block mappings. It also adds support to the unmap path for dealing with block mappings, which will allow us to unmap the __init region using unmap_kernel_range() in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2016-01-26Remove "arch" usage in Documentation/features/list-arch.shdcg
Commit 669f6f96c680a741257ada44a28b580df2e1fc25 introduced the script list-arch.sh, which uses the command "arch": ARCH=${1:-$(arch | sed 's/x86_64/x86/' | sed 's/i386/x86/')} It turns out that the "arch" command does not exist in my system (arch distro). Google found man pages which say "arch is deprecated command since release util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m" (util-linux 2.13 was released in 2007). I also found a debian bug reporting the lack of arch and being told to use uname -m https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446023 But then, why it works in some distros? Apparently coreutils gained an optional arch command that needs to be explicitly enabled during compilation. Some distros enable it, others don't. Sigh. Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-01-20dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementationChristoph Hellwig
Move the generic implementation to <linux/dma-mapping.h> now that all architectures support it and remove the HAVE_DMA_ATTR Kconfig symbol now that everyone supports them. [valentinrothberg@gmail.com: remove leftovers in Kconfig] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDsKirill A. Shutemov
With new refcounting we don't need to mark PMDs splitting. Let's drop code to handle this. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-12Merge branch 'for-linus-4.5-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger: "This contains beside of random fixes/cleanups two bigger changes: - seccomp support by Mickaël Salaün - IRQ rework by Anton Ivanov" * 'for-linus-4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: um: Use race-free temporary file creation um: Do not set unsecure permission for temporary file um: Fix build error and kconfig for i386 um: Add seccomp support um: Add full asm/syscall.h support selftests/seccomp: Remove the need for HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK um: Fix ptrace GETREGS/SETREGS bugs um: link with -lpthread um: Update UBD to use pread/pwrite family of functions um: Do not change hard IRQ flags in soft IRQ processing um: Prevent IRQ handler reentrancy uml: flush stdout before forking uml: fix hostfs mknod()
2016-01-10um: Add seccomp supportMickaël Salaün
This brings SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT and SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER support through prctl(2) and seccomp(2) to User-mode Linux for i386 and x86_64 subarchitectures. secure_computing() is called first in handle_syscall() so that the syscall emulation will be aborted quickly if matching a seccomp rule. This is inspired from Meredydd Luff's patch (https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/21425). Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org> Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2015-12-03arm64: enable HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTINGWill Deacon
arm64 relies on the arm_arch_timer for sched_clock, so we can select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING and have the core sched-clock code enable the feature at runtime based on the rate. Reported-by: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-11-04Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: - "genirq: Introduce generic irq migration for cpu hotunplugged" patch merged from tip/irq/for-arm to allow the arm64-specific part to be upstreamed via the arm64 tree - CPU feature detection reworked to cope with heterogeneous systems where CPUs may not have exactly the same features. The features reported by the kernel via internal data structures or ELF_HWCAP are delayed until all the CPUs are up (and before user space starts) - Support for 16KB pages, with the additional bonus of a 36-bit VA space, though the latter only depending on EXPERT - Implement native {relaxed, acquire, release} atomics for arm64 - New ASID allocation algorithm which avoids IPI on roll-over, together with TLB invalidation optimisations (using local vs global where feasible) - KASan support for arm64 - EFI_STUB clean-up and isolation for the kernel proper (required by KASan) - copy_{to,from,in}_user optimisations (sharing the memcpy template) - perf: moving arm64 to the arm32/64 shared PMU framework - L1_CACHE_BYTES increased to 128 to accommodate Cavium hardware - Support for the contiguous PTE hint on kernel mapping (16 consecutive entries may be able to use a single TLB entry) - Generic CONFIG_HZ now used on arm64 - defconfig updates * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (91 commits) arm64/efi: fix libstub build under CONFIG_MODVERSIONS ARM64: Enable multi-core scheduler support by default arm64/efi: move arm64 specific stub C code to libstub arm64: page-align sections for DEBUG_RODATA arm64: Fix build with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=n arm64: Fix compat register mappings arm64: Increase the max granular size arm64: remove bogus TASK_SIZE_64 check arm64: make Timer Interrupt Frequency selectable arm64/mm: use PAGE_ALIGNED instead of IS_ALIGNED arm64: cachetype: fix definitions of ICACHEF_* flags arm64: cpufeature: declare enable_cpu_capabilities as static genirq: Make the cpuhotplug migration code less noisy arm64: Constify hwcap name string arrays arm64/kvm: Make use of the system wide safe values arm64/debug: Make use of the system wide safe value arm64: Move FP/ASIMD hwcap handling to common code arm64/HWCAP: Use system wide safe values arm64/capabilities: Make use of system wide safe value arm64: Delay cpu feature capability checks ...
2015-10-17Documentation/features/vm: THP now supported by ARCVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-10-12Documentation/features/KASAN: arm64 supports KASAN nowAndrey Ryabinin
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2015-10-09Documentation/features/vm: pte_special now supported by ARCVineet Gupta
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-09-09Merge tag 'metag-for-v4.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag Pull metag updates from James Hogan: "Metag architecture changes for v4.3. Just a couple of changes for v4.3-rc1. A preparatory IRQ patch to prepare for moving irq_data struct members, and a tweak to Documentation/features since Meta2 could support THP" * tag 'metag-for-v4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: Documentation/features/vm: Meta2 is capable of THP metag/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
2015-09-07Documentation/features/vm: Meta2 is capable of THPJames Hogan
Change metag Transparent Huge Pages (THP) support from .. to TODO. Meta2 has variable sized pages, between 4KB and 4MB, specified at the 1st level page table level, and already supports hugetlbfs, so supporting THP is theoretically possible too. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2015-09-04Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status ↵Mel Gorman
for batched TLB flush after unmap Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tileLinus Torvalds
Pull tile updates from Chris Metcalf: "This includes secure computing support as well as miscellaneous minor improvements" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: tile: correct some typos in opcode type names tile/vdso: emit a GNU hash as well tile: Remove finish_arch_switch tile: enable full SECCOMP support tile/time: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface
2015-09-03Documentation: MIPS now supports uprobes.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2015-07-30tile: enable full SECCOMP supportChris Metcalf
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
2015-06-03Documentation/features: Explain kernel feature descriptions and add ↵Ingo Molnar
visualization script The previous patches added arch support matrices for more than 40 generic kernel features that need per architecture support. The structure of the feature descriptions is the following: Each feature has its own directory under Documentation/features/subsystem_name/feature_name/, and the arch-support.txt file shows its current arch porting status. For example, lockdep support is shown the following way: triton:~/tip> cat Documentation/features/locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt # # Feature name: lockdep # Kconfig: LOCKDEP_SUPPORT # description: arch supports the runtime locking correctness debug facility # ----------------------- | arch |status| ----------------------- | alpha: | TODO | | arc: | ok | | arm: | ok | | arm64: | ok | | avr32: | ok | | blackfin: | ok | | c6x: | TODO | | cris: | TODO | | frv: | TODO | | h8300: | TODO | | hexagon: | ok | | ia64: | TODO | | m32r: | TODO | | m68k: | TODO | | metag: | ok | | microblaze: | ok | | mips: | ok | | mn10300: | TODO | | nios2: | TODO | | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | | powerpc: | ok | | s390: | ok | | score: | ok | | sh: | ok | | sparc: | ok | | tile: | ok | | um: | ok | | unicore32: | ok | | x86: | ok | | xtensa: | ok | ----------------------- For generic kernel features that need architecture support, the arch-support.txt file in each feature directory shows the arch support matrix, for all upstream Linux architectures. The meaning of entries in the tables is: | ok | # feature supported by the architecture |TODO| # feature not yet supported by the architecture | .. | # feature cannot be supported by the hardware This directory structure can be used in the future to add other files - such as porting guides, testing description, etc. The Documentation/features/ hierarchy may also include generic kernel features that works on every architecture, in that case the arch-support.txt file will list every architecture as supported. To list an architecture's unsupported features, just do something like: triton:~/tip> git grep -lE 'x86.*TODO' Documentation/features/*/*/arch-support.txt Documentation/features/lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt Documentation/features/time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt which will print the list of not yet supported features. The Documentation/features/list-arch.sh script will print the current support matrix of one architecture: triton:~/tip> Documentation/features/list-arch.sh # # Kernel feature support matrix of the 'x86' architecture: # core/ BPF-JIT : ok | HAVE_BPF_JIT # arch supports BPF JIT optimizations core/ generic-idle-thread : ok | GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD # arch makes use of the generic SMP idle thread facility core/ jump-labels : ok | HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL # arch supports live patched, high efficiency branches core/ tracehook : ok | HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK # arch supports tracehook (ptrace) register handling APIs debug/ gcov-profile-all : ok | ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL # arch supports whole-kernel GCOV code coverage profiling debug/ KASAN : ok | HAVE_ARCH_KASAN # arch supports the KASAN runtime memory checker debug/ kgdb : ok | HAVE_ARCH_KGDB # arch supports the kGDB kernel debugger debug/ kprobes : ok | HAVE_KPROBES # arch supports live patched kernel probe debug/ kprobes-on-ftrace : ok | HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE # arch supports combined kprobes and ftrace live patching debug/ kretprobes : ok | HAVE_KRETPROBES # arch supports kernel function-return probes debug/ optprobes : ok | HAVE_OPTPROBES # arch supports live patched optprobes debug/ stackprotector : ok | HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR # arch supports compiler driven stack overflow protection debug/ uprobes : ok | ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES # arch supports live patched user probes debug/ user-ret-profiler : ok | HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER # arch supports user-space return from system call profiler io/ dma-api-debug : ok | HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG # arch supports DMA debug facilities io/ dma-contiguous : ok | HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS # arch supports the DMA CMA (continuous memory allocator) io/ dma_map_attrs : ok | HAVE_DMA_ATTRS # arch provides dma_*map*_attrs() APIs io/ sg-chain : ok | ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN # arch supports chained scatter-gather lists lib/ strncasecmp : TODO | __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP # arch provides an optimized strncasecmp() function locking/ cmpxchg-local : ok | HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL # arch supports the this_cpu_cmpxchg() API locking/ lockdep : ok | LOCKDEP_SUPPORT # arch supports the runtime locking correctness debug facility locking/ queued-rwlocks : ok | ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS # arch supports queued rwlocks locking/ queued-spinlocks : ok | ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS # arch supports queued spinlocks locking/ rwsem-optimized : ok | Optimized asm/rwsem.h # arch provides optimized rwsem APIs perf/ kprobes-event : ok | HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API # arch supports kprobes with perf events perf/ perf-regs : ok | HAVE_PERF_REGS # arch supports perf events register access perf/ perf-stackdump : ok | HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP # arch supports perf events stack dumps sched/ numa-balancing : ok | ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING # arch supports NUMA balancing seccomp/ seccomp-filter : ok | HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER # arch supports seccomp filters time/ arch-tick-broadcast : TODO | ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST # arch provides tick_broadcast() time/ clockevents : ok | GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS # arch support generic clock events time/ context-tracking : ok | HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING # arch supports context tracking for NO_HZ_FULL time/ irq-time-acct : ok | HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING # arch supports precise IRQ time accounting time/ modern-timekeeping : ok | !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET # arch does not use arch_gettimeoffset() anymore time/ virt-cpuacct : ok | HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING # arch supports precise virtual CPU time accounting vm/ ELF-ASLR : ok | ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE # arch randomizes the stack, heap and binary images of ELF binaries vm/ huge-vmap : ok | HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP # arch supports the ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled() VM APIs vm/ ioremap_prot : ok | HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT # arch has ioremap_prot() vm/ numa-memblock : ok | HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP # arch supports NUMA aware memblocks vm/ PG_uncached : ok | ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED # arch supports the PG_uncached page flag vm/ pmdp_splitting_flush : ok | __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH # arch supports the pmdp_splitting_flush() VM API vm/ pte_special : ok | __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL # arch supports the pte_special()/pte_mkspecial() VM APIs vm/ THP : ok | HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE # arch supports transparent hugepages Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>