kernel/linux.git/Documentation/features/vm/huge-vmap, branch v6.18.21

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

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.2-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

2022-12-14T23:23:49+00:00

Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt: - Support for the T-Head PMU via the perf subsystem - ftrace support for rv32 - Support for non-volatile memory devices - Various fixes and cleanups * tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.2-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (52 commits) Documentation: RISC-V: patch-acceptance: s/implementor/implementer Documentation: RISC-V: Mention the UEFI Standards Documentation: RISC-V: Allow patches for non-standard behavior Documentation: RISC-V: Fix a typo in patch-acceptance riscv: Fixup compile error with !MMU riscv: Fix P4D_SHIFT definition for 3-level page table mode riscv: Apply a static assert to riscv_isa_ext_id RISC-V: Add some comments about the shadow and overflow stacks RISC-V: Align the shadow stack RISC-V: Ensure Zicbom has a valid block size RISC-V: Introduce riscv_isa_extension_check RISC-V: Improve use of isa2hwcap[] riscv: Don't duplicate _ALTERNATIVE_CFG* macros riscv: alternatives: Drop the underscores from the assembly macro names riscv: alternatives: Don't name unused macro parameters riscv: Don't duplicate __ALTERNATIVE_CFG in __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2 riscv: mm: call best_map_size many times during linear-mapping riscv: Move cast inside kernel_mapping_[pv]a_to_[vp]a riscv: Fix crash during early errata patching riscv: boot: add zstd support ...

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

riscv: Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP for 64BIT

2022-10-29T00:10:01+00:00

This sets the HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP option, and defines the required page table functions. With this feature, ioremap area will be mapped with huge page granularity according to its actual size. This feature can be disabled by kernel parameter "nohugeiomap". Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel Tested-by: Björn Töpel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221012120038.1034354-2-liushixin2@huawei.com [Palmer: minor formatting] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt

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 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

remove the h8300 architecture

2022-02-23T07:52:50+00:00

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

Documentation/features/vm: correct huge-vmap APIs

2021-08-24T19:31:00+00:00

In commit: bbc180a5adb05ee8 ("mm: HUGE_VMAP arch support cleanup") We replaced: * ioremap_pud_enabled() with arch_vmap_pud_supported() * ioremap_pmd_enabled() with arch_vmap_pmd_supported() Update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210817091621.16799-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: features: remove c6x references

2021-02-25T18:25:57+00:00

The references to arch/c6x are obsolete now that the architecture is gone. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210225142841.3385428-1-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet