kernel/linux.git/Documentation/features/time, branch v6.18.21

Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7

2025-09-25T17:17:56+00:00

It seems that ./Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh was most recently used in December 2022, with the latest kernel release v6.1-rc7 at that time (see commit 7f2e60ff51ca ("Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.1") to update the feature lists in this subdirectory. All further changes to Documentation/features/ since then have probably been done manually, without checking for changes in other architectures and features, that missed to update this part of the documentation. Running ./Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh now showed seven changes of supported features in various architectures (one in arc, two in parisc, one in riscv, one in openrisc, and two in um), which were not reflected yet in the current documentation. To confirm the sanity of this script's suggested changes, I checked if the commit messages confirm that the features have in fact been added in the following commits: - commit f122668ddcce ("ARC: Add eBPF JIT support") - commit 4800a6215e33 ("parisc: Wire up eBPF JIT compiler") - commit a869b8c29f86 ("riscv: enable mseal sysmap for RV64") - commit 2f681ba4b352 ("um: move thread info into task") - commit 3f17fed21491 ("um: switch to regset API and depend on XSTATE") - commit 7ce8716e2769 ("openrisc: Add HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API support") - commit b5ff52be8913 ("parisc: Convert to generic clockevents") So, update all documents to the current state with features-refresh.sh. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20250925073634.112142-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>

Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions

2023-09-11T08:13:18+00:00

Itanium (IA64) is going away, so drop it from the kernel feature documentation. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

Documentation/features: Use loongarch instead of loong

2022-12-05T09:50:12+00:00

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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1670156327-9631-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

context_tracking: Split user tracking Kconfig

2022-06-30T00:04:09+00:00

Context tracking is going to be used not only to track user transitions but also idle/IRQs/NMIs. The user tracking part will then become a separate feature. Prepare Kconfig for that. [ frederic: Apply Max Filippov feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Xiongfeng Wang Cc: Yu Liao Cc: Phil Auld Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Alex Belits Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne

Documentation/features: Update the arch support status files

2022-06-09T15:35:57+00:00

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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609025656.143460-1-zhengzengkai@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'asm-generic-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2022-05-26T17:50:30+00:00

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: "The asm-generic tree contains three separate changes for linux-5.19: - The h8300 architecture is retired after it has been effectively unmaintained for a number of years. This is the last architecture we supported that has no MMU implementation, but there are still a few architectures (arm, m68k, riscv, sh and xtensa) that support CPUs with and without an MMU. - A series to add a generic ticket spinlock that can be shared by most architectures with a working cmpxchg or ll/sc type atomic, including the conversion of riscv, csky and openrisc. This series is also a prerequisite for the loongarch64 architecture port that will come as a separate pull request. - A cleanup of some exported uapi header files to ensure they can be included from user space without relying on other kernel headers" * tag 'asm-generic-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: h8300: remove stale bindings and symlink sparc: add asm/stat.h to UAPI compile-test coverage powerpc: add asm/stat.h to UAPI compile-test coverage mips: add asm/stat.h to UAPI compile-test coverage riscv: add linux/bpf_perf_event.h to UAPI compile-test coverage kbuild: prevent exported headers from including , agpgart.h: do not include from exported header csky: Move to generic ticket-spinlock RISC-V: Move to queued RW locks RISC-V: Move to generic spinlocks openrisc: Move to ticket-spinlock asm-generic: qrwlock: Document the spinlock fairness requirements asm-generic: qspinlock: Indicate the use of mixed-size atomics asm-generic: ticket-lock: New generic ticket-based spinlock remove the h8300 architecture

xtensa: enable HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN

2022-05-02T02:51:22+00:00

There's no direct cputime_t manipulation in the xtensa arch code, so generic virt CPU accounting may be enabled. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

xtensa: enable context tracking

2022-05-02T02:51:21+00:00

Put user exit context tracking call on the common kernel entry/exit path (function calls are impossible at earlier kernel entry stages because PS.EXCM is not cleared yet). Put user entry context tracking call on the user exit path. Syscalls go through this common code too, so nothing specific needs to be done for them. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

Merge branch 'remove-h8300' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc into asm-generic

2022-04-04T12:42:49+00:00

* '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

nds32: Remove the architecture

2022-03-07T12:54:59+00:00

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/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/ Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/ Signed-off-by: Alan Kao [arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann