kernel/linux.git/drivers/misc/sgi-xp, branch v6.12.80

Merge tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2023-11-02T06:51:41+00:00

Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain: "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It is worth re-iterating the value: - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the unneeded check for procname == NULL. The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we might as well roll through the fixes now" * tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits) watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array ...

sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array

2023-10-11T19:16:13+00:00

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link : https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/) Remove sentinel from xpc_sys_xpc_hb and xpc_sys_xpc Signed-off-by: Joel Granados Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

sgi-xp: simplify sysctl registration

2023-03-09T16:32:13+00:00

Although this driver is a good use case for having a directory that is not other directories and then subdirectories with more entries, the usage of register_sysctl_table() can recurse and increases complexity so to avoid that just split out the registration to each directory with its own entries. register_sysctl_table() is a deprecated compatibility wrapper. register_sysctl() can do the directory creation for you so just use that. Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230302204612.782387-6-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/misc/sgi-xp: Remove orphan declarations from drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h

2022-09-24T12:57:19+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220913110356.764711-1-cuigaosheng1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sgi-xp: Use the bitmap API to allocate bitmaps

2022-07-08T13:41:39+00:00

Use bitmap_zalloc()/bitmap_free() instead of hand-writing them. It is less verbose and it improves the semantic. While at it, remove a useless cast in a bitmap_empty() call. Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ef49726d60f6a531428609f60a2398b6c3d9a26e.1656966181.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sgi-xp: xpc_uv: drop unexpected word "the" in the comments

2022-06-27T14:15:31+00:00

there is an unexpected word "the" in the comments that need to be dropped file: ./drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c line: 1601 * to put the the msg_slot back on the free list. changed to * to put the msg_slot back on the free list. Signed-off-by: Jiang Jian Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220621124840.119875-1-jiangjian@cdjrlc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: sgi-xp: Use netif_rx().

2022-03-04T12:02:19+00:00

Since commit baebdf48c3600 ("net: dev: Makes sure netif_rx() can be invoked in any context.") the function netif_rx() can be used in preemptible/thread context as well as in interrupt context. Use netif_rx(). Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Steve Wahl Cc: Mike Travis Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: sgi-xp: use eth_hw_addr_set()

2021-10-29T12:17:21+00:00

Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look up. To maintain netdev->dev_addr in this tree we need to make all the writes to it go through appropriate helpers. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sgi-xpc: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.

2021-08-03T14:30:36+00:00

The functions get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() have been deprecated during the CPU hotplug rework. They map directly to cpus_read_lock() and cpus_read_unlock(). Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions with the official version. The behavior remains unchanged. Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Steve Wahl Cc: Mike Travis Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210803141621.780504-17-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman