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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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 <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Remove the following orphan declarations from drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h:
1. xp_nofault_PIOR_target
2. xp_error_PIOR
3. xp_nofault_PIOR
They have been removed since commit 9726bfcdb977 ("misc/sgi-xp:
remove SGI SN2 support"), so remove them.
Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220913110356.764711-1-cuigaosheng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Add Copyrights to those files that have been updated for UV5 changes.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005203929.148656-14-mike.travis@hpe.com
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Remove the define is_uv() is_uv_system and just use the latter as is.
This removes a conflict with a new symbol in the generated uv_mmrs.h
file (is_uv()).
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005203929.148656-4-mike.travis@hpe.com
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Note this also marks xp broken on ia64 now, as the UV support, which
was disable in generic kernels before actually never compiled due to
undefined uv_gpa_to_soc_phys_ram and uv_gpa_in_mmr_space symbols since
at least commit c2c9f1157414 ("x86: uv: update XPC to handle updated
BIOS interface").
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Prepare to mark sensitive kernel structures for randomization by making
sure they're using designated initializers. In this case, no initializers
are needed (they can be NULL initialized and callers adjusted to check
for NULL, which is more efficient than an indirect call).
Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Provide an SGI SN2/UV agnositic method for converting a global physical
address into a socket physical address.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix the ia64 build error that occurs in the linux-next tree by introducing
an ia64 version of uv.h.
Additionally, clean up the usage of is_uv_system().
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Fix more build-failure fallout from the UV cleanup - the UV drivers
were not updated to include <asm/uv/uv.h>.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Define xp_expand_memprotect() and xp_restrict_memprotect() so they can be
tailered to the hardware they are run on.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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For the time being build for ia64-sn2 alone when CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC is
specified.
This eliminates a dependency of the XP/XPC drivers on having the GRU
driver insmod'd in order to insmod them, when running on an ia64-sn2
system.
On such a system the GRU driver serves no useful purpose.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Setup the notify GRU message queue that is used for sending user messages
on UV systems.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Setup the activate GRU message queue that is used for partition activation
and channel connection on UV systems.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add UV support to xpc_remote_memcpy(), which involves interfacing to the
GRU driver.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Get XPC/XPNET to build on x86_64. Trying to modprobe them up on a non-UV
or sn2 system will result in a -ENODEV.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Change sgi-xp to use the standard bitops macros and functions instead of
trying to invent its own mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Comments in /drivers/misc/sgi-xp has been using '>>>' as a means to draw
attention to something that needs to be done or considered. To avoid
colliding with git rejects, '>>>' will now be replaced by '!!!' to
indicate something to do, and by '???' to indicate something to be
considered.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make the remote copy buffer an sn2 only item.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Move xpc_allocate() functionality into xpc_send()/xpc_send_notify() so
xpc_allocate() no longer needs to be called by XPNET.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Prepare XPC's reserved page header to work for either sn2 or uv.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Create a common remote memcpy function that maps to what the hardware
booted supports.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Support runtime selection of the max number of partitions based on the
hardware being run on.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a BYTES_PER_WORD #define.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Define xpSalError reason code.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Define the is_shub()/is_uv() macros if they've not already been defined.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In preparation for supporting greater than 64 partitions replace partid_t by
short in drivers/misc/sgi-xp.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make XP return values more generic to XP and not so tied to XPC by changing
enum xpc_retval to xp_retval, along with changing return value prefixes from
xpc to xp. Also, cleanup a comment block that referenced some of these return
values as well as the handling of BTE related return values.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Addressed issues raised by scripts/checkpatch.pl. Removed unnecessary curly
braces. Eliminated uses of volatiles and use of kernel_thread() and daemonize().
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Ran patches through scripts/Lindent (part 1).
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Move XPC and XPNET from arch/ia64/sn/kernel to drivers/misc/sgi-xp.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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