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2024-02-15membarrier: riscv: Provide core serializing commandAndrea Parri1-1/+17
RISC-V uses xRET instructions on return from interrupt and to go back to user-space; the xRET instruction is not core serializing. Use FENCE.I for providing core serialization as follows: - by calling sync_core_before_usermode() on return from interrupt (cf. ipi_sync_core()), - via switch_mm() and sync_core_before_usermode() (respectively, for uthread->uthread and kthread->uthread transitions) before returning to user-space. On RISC-V, the serialization in switch_mm() is activated by resetting the icache_stale_mask of the mm at prepare_sync_core_cmd(). Suggested-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
2023-09-11Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptionsArd Biesheuvel2-2/+0
Itanium (IA64) is going away, so drop it from the kernel feature documentation. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
2023-03-27s390: enable ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_COREHeiko Carstens1-2/+2
s390 trivially supports the ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE requirements since the used lpswe(y) instruction to return from any kernel context to user space performs CPU serialization. This is very similar to arm, arm64 and powerpc. See commit 70216e18e519 ("membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE") for further details. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
2022-12-05Documentation/features: Use loongarch instead of loongTiezhu Yang2-2/+2
The official arch name is LoongArch [1], we should use small letter loongarch instead of loong in Documentation/features, just use the features-refresh.sh to refresh all the related files. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/loongarch/index.html Fixes: 5860800e8696 ("Documentation/features: Update the arch support status files") Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
2022-06-09Documentation/features: Update the arch support status filesZheng Zengkai2-0/+2
The arch support status files don't match reality as of v5.19-rc1, use the features-refresh.sh to refresh all the arch-support.txt files in place. The main effect is to add entries for the new loong architecture. Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
2022-04-04Merge branch 'remove-h8300' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc into ↵Arnd Bergmann2-2/+0
asm-generic * 'remove-h8300' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc: remove the h8300 architecture This is clearly the least actively maintained architecture we have at the moment, and probably the least useful. It is now the only one that does not support MMUs at all, and most of the boards only support 4MB of RAM, out of which the defconfig kernel needs more than half just for .text/.data. Guenter Roeck did the original patch to remove the architecture in 2013 after it had already been obsolete for a while, and Yoshinori Sato brought it back in a much more modern form in 2015. Looking at the git history since the reinstantiation, it's clear that almost all commits in the tree are build fixes or cross-architecture cleanups: $ git log --no-merges --format=%an v4.5.. arch/h8300/ | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 12 25 Masahiro Yamada 18 Christoph Hellwig 14 Mike Rapoport 9 Arnd Bergmann 8 Mark Rutland 7 Peter Zijlstra 6 Kees Cook 6 Ingo Molnar 6 Al Viro 5 Randy Dunlap 4 Yury Norov Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
2022-03-07nds32: Remove the architectureAlan Kao2-2/+0
The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes employees. As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V, and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline support any more. While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/ Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <[email protected]> [arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
2022-02-23remove the h8300 architectureChristoph Hellwig2-2/+0
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
2021-02-25Documentation: features: refresh feature listArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
Run the update script to document the recent feature additions on riscv, mips and csky. Fixes: c109f42450ec ("csky: Add kmemleak support") Fixes: 8b3165e54566 ("MIPS: Enable GCOV") Fixes: 1ddc96bd42da ("MIPS: kernel: Support extracting off-line stack traces from user-space with perf") Fixes: 74784081aac8 ("riscv: Add uprobes supported") Fixes: 829adda597fe ("riscv: Add KPROBES_ON_FTRACE supported") Fixes: c22b0bcb1dd0 ("riscv: Add kprobes supported") Fixes: dcdc7a53a890 ("RISC-V: Implement ptrace regs and stack API") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
2021-02-25Documentation: features: remove c6x referencesArnd Bergmann2-2/+0
The references to arch/c6x are obsolete now that the architecture is gone. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
2020-08-07Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks. - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on Power9 or later. - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice. - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other architectures. - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems. - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs. - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path. - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as usual. Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov, Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing. * tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits) selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0 powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0) cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]() powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt() powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt() powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10 ...
2020-07-23powerpc: Select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORENicholas Piggin1-2/+2
powerpc return from interrupt and return from system call sequences are context synchronising. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2020-07-01arch: remove unicore32 portMike Rapoport2-2/+0
The unicore32 port do not seem maintained for a long time now, there is no upstream toolchain that can create unicore32 binaries and all the links to prebuilt toolchains for unicore32 are dead. Even compilers that were available are not supported by the kernel anymore. Guenter Roeck says: I have stopped building unicore32 images since v4.19 since there is no available compiler that is still supported by the kernel. I am surprised that support for it has not been removed from the kernel. Remove unicore32 port. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
2019-01-07Documentation/features: Add csky kernel featuresGuo Ren2-0/+2
core/ cBPF-JIT : TODO | core/ eBPF-JIT : TODO | core/ generic-idle-thread : ok | core/ jump-labels : TODO | core/ tracehook : ok | debug/ KASAN : TODO | debug/ gcov-profile-all : TODO | debug/ kgdb : TODO | debug/ kprobes-on-ftrace : TODO | debug/ kprobes : TODO | debug/ kretprobes : TODO | debug/ optprobes : TODO | debug/ stackprotector : TODO | debug/ uprobes : TODO | debug/ user-ret-profiler : TODO | io/ dma-contiguous : ok | locking/ cmpxchg-local : TODO | locking/ lockdep : TODO | locking/ queued-rwlocks : ok | locking/ queued-spinlocks : TODO | locking/ rwsem-optimized : TODO | perf/ kprobes-event : TODO | perf/ perf-regs : TODO | perf/ perf-stackdump : TODO | sched/ membarrier-sync-core : TODO | sched/ numa-balancing : .. | seccomp/ seccomp-filter : TODO | time/ arch-tick-broadcast : TODO | time/ clockevents : ok | time/ context-tracking : TODO | time/ irq-time-acct : TODO | time/ modern-timekeeping : ok | time/ virt-cpuacct : TODO | vm/ ELF-ASLR : TODO | vm/ PG_uncached : TODO | vm/ THP : .. | vm/ batch-unmap-tlb-flush: TODO | vm/ huge-vmap : TODO | vm/ ioremap_prot : TODO | vm/ numa-memblock : .. | vm/ pte_special : TODO | Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
2018-07-11ARM: 8777/1: Hook up SYNC_CORE functionality for sys_membarrier()Will Deacon1-4/+4
Exception return implies context synchronization, so we can hook up the SYNC_CORE option to sys_membarrier() simply by selecting the Kconfig option, just like we've done for arm64 already. Cc: Orion Hodson <[email protected]> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
2018-05-08Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files in placeAndrea Parri2-2/+6
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 <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
2018-03-26Documentation: arch-support: remove obsolete architecturesArnd Bergmann2-12/+0
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 <[email protected]>
2018-03-09mn10300: Remove the architectureDavid Howells2-2/+0
Remove the MN10300 arch as the hardware is defunct. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
2018-02-22docs: Remove remaining references to metagJames Hogan2-2/+0
Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]
2018-02-10membarrier-sync-core: Document architecture supportMathieu Desnoyers1-0/+62
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 <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Parri <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Hunter <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> Cc: Boqun Feng <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Watson <[email protected]> Cc: David Sehr <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Hackmann <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Maged Michael <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2017-05-01docs: remove all references to AVR32 architectureHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt1-1/+0
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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <[email protected]> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <[email protected]>
2015-06-03Documentation/features/sched: Add feature description and arch support ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+40
status file for 'numa-balancing' Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>