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* Documentation/features: Update the arch support status filesZheng Zengkai2022-06-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609025656.143460-1-zhengzengkai@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Merge branch 'remove-h8300' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc into ↵Arnd Bergmann2022-04-041-1/+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 <arnd@arndb.de>
| * remove the h8300 architectureChristoph Hellwig2022-02-231-1/+0
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | nds32: Remove the architectureAlan Kao2022-03-071-1/+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/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 <alankao@andestech.com> [arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* Documentation: features: remove c6x referencesArnd Bergmann2021-02-251-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | The references to arch/c6x are obsolete now that the architecture is gone. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210225142841.3385428-1-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* timekeeping: default GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS to enabledArnd Bergmann2020-10-301-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Almost all machines use GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, so it feels wrong to require each one to select that symbol manually. Instead, enable it whenever CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK is disabled as a simplification. It should be possible to select both GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS and LEGACY_TIMER_TICK from an architecture now and decide at runtime between the two. For the clockevents arch-support.txt file, this means that additional architectures are marked as TODO when they have at least one machine that still uses LEGACY_TIMER_TICK, rather than being marked 'ok' when at least one machine has been converted. This means that both m68k and arm (for riscpc) revert to TODO. At this point, we could just always enable CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS rather than leaving it off when not needed. I built an m68k defconfig kernel (using gcc-10.1.0) and found that this would add around 5.5KB in kernel image size: text data bss dec hex filename 3861936 1092236 196656 5150828 4e986c obj-m68k/vmlinux-no-clockevent 3866201 1093832 196184 5156217 4ead79 obj-m68k/vmlinux-clockevent On Arm (MACH_RPC), that difference appears to be twice as large, around 11KB on top of an 6MB vmlinux. Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* parisc: use legacy_timer_tickArnd Bergmann2020-10-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | parisc has selected CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS since commit 43b1f6abd590 ("parisc: Switch to generic sched_clock implementation"), but does not appear to actually be using it, and instead calls the low-level timekeeping functions directly. Remove the GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS select again, and instead convert to the newly added legacy_timer_tick() helper. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* arch: remove unicore32 portMike Rapoport2020-07-011-1/+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 <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
* Documentation/features: Add csky kernel featuresGuo Ren2019-01-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files in placeAndrea Parri2018-05-081-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation: arch-support: remove obsolete architecturesArnd Bergmann2018-03-261-6/+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 <arnd@arndb.de>
* mn10300: Remove the architectureDavid Howells2018-03-091-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Remove the MN10300 arch as the hardware is defunct. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* docs: Remove remaining references to metagJames Hogan2018-02-221-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
* docs: remove all references to AVR32 architectureHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt2017-05-011-1/+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 <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
* Documentation/features/time: Add feature description and arch support status ↵Ingo Molnar2015-06-031-0/+40
file for 'clockevents' Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>