user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/features, branch v4.17.4

Merge tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2018-04-03T03:20:12Z

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this series, we still have a few architectures without mainline gcc support: - unicore32 and hexagon both have very outdated gcc releases, but the maintainers promised to work on providing something newer.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 ...

Documentation: arch-support: remove obsolete architectures

2018-03-26T13:56:10Z

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

mn10300: Remove the architecture

2018-03-09T22:19:56Z

Remove the MN10300 arch as the hardware is defunct. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Masahiro Yamada cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

docs: Remove remaining references to metag

2018-02-22T11:07:37Z

Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/. Signed-off-by: James Hogan Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org

Documentation/features, membarriers: Document membarrier-sync-core architecture support

2018-02-11T11:19:03Z

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 Cc: Andrea Parri Cc: Andrew Hunter Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Dave Watson Cc: David Sehr Cc: Greg Hackmann Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Maged Michael Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon 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

Documentation/features: Allow comments in arch features files

2018-02-11T11:18:50Z

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 Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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

membarrier-sync-core: Document architecture support

2018-02-10T11:45:10Z

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 Cc: Andrea Parri Cc: Andrew Hunter Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Dave Watson Cc: David Sehr Cc: Greg Hackmann Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Maged Michael Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon 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

Merge tag 'xtensa-20180129' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa

2018-01-30T00:40:28Z

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 ...

xtensa: add support for KASAN

2017-12-17T06:37:12Z

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

xtensa: enable stack protector

2017-12-17T06:37:07Z

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