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arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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 <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2022-10-20 15:54:33 +02:00
misc: fastrpc: select CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER Fastrpc is a dma buf exporter as well, so select the corresponding DMA_SHARED_BUFFER config to fix below compilation errors on platforms without this config. ld: drivers/misc/fastrpc.o: in function 'fastrpc_free_map': fastrpc.c:(.text+0xbe): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_unmap_attachment' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0xcb): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_detach' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_put' ld: drivers/misc/fastrpc.o: in function 'fastrpc_map_create': fastrpc.c:(.text+0xb2b): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_get' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0xb47): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_attach' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0xb61): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_map_attachment' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0xc36): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_put' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0xc48): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_detach' ld: drivers/misc/fastrpc.o: in function 'fastrpc_device_ioctl': fastrpc.c:(.text+0x1756): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_get' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0x1776): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_put' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0x1780): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_put' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0x1abf): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_export' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0x1ae7): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_fd' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0x1cb5): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_put' ld: fastrpc.c:(.text+0x1cca): undefined reference to 'dma_buf_put' Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # build-tested Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-15 10:40:06 +00:00
VMware Balloon driver This is a standalone version of VMware Balloon driver. Ballooning is a technique that allows hypervisor dynamically limit the amount of memory available to the guest (with guest cooperation). In the overcommit scenario, when hypervisor set detects that it needs to shuffle some memory, it instructs the driver to allocate certain number of pages, and the underlying memory gets returned to the hypervisor. Later hypervisor may return memory to the guest by reattaching memory to the pageframes and instructing the driver to "deflate" balloon. We are submitting a standalone driver because KVM maintainer (Avi Kivity) expressed opinion (rightly) that our transport does not fit well into virtqueue paradigm and thus it does not make much sense to integrate with virtio. There were also some concerns whether current ballooning technique is the right thing. If there appears a better framework to achieve this we are prepared to evaluate and switch to using it, but in the meantime we'd like to get this driver upstream. We want to get the driver accepted in distributions so that users do not have to deal with an out-of-tree module and many distributions have "upstream first" requirement. The driver has been shipping for a number of years and users running on VMware platform will have it installed as part of VMware Tools even if it will not come from a distribution, thus there should not be additional risk in pulling the driver into mainline. The driver will only activate if host is VMware so everyone else should not be affected at all. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-23 13:18:08 -04:00
VMware Balloon driver This is a standalone version of VMware Balloon driver. Ballooning is a technique that allows hypervisor dynamically limit the amount of memory available to the guest (with guest cooperation). In the overcommit scenario, when hypervisor set detects that it needs to shuffle some memory, it instructs the driver to allocate certain number of pages, and the underlying memory gets returned to the hypervisor. Later hypervisor may return memory to the guest by reattaching memory to the pageframes and instructing the driver to "deflate" balloon. We are submitting a standalone driver because KVM maintainer (Avi Kivity) expressed opinion (rightly) that our transport does not fit well into virtqueue paradigm and thus it does not make much sense to integrate with virtio. There were also some concerns whether current ballooning technique is the right thing. If there appears a better framework to achieve this we are prepared to evaluate and switch to using it, but in the meantime we'd like to get this driver upstream. We want to get the driver accepted in distributions so that users do not have to deal with an out-of-tree module and many distributions have "upstream first" requirement. The driver has been shipping for a number of years and users running on VMware platform will have it installed as part of VMware Tools even if it will not come from a distribution, thus there should not be additional risk in pulling the driver into mainline. The driver will only activate if host is VMware so everyone else should not be affected at all. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-23 13:18:08 -04:00
VMware Balloon driver This is a standalone version of VMware Balloon driver. Ballooning is a technique that allows hypervisor dynamically limit the amount of memory available to the guest (with guest cooperation). In the overcommit scenario, when hypervisor set detects that it needs to shuffle some memory, it instructs the driver to allocate certain number of pages, and the underlying memory gets returned to the hypervisor. Later hypervisor may return memory to the guest by reattaching memory to the pageframes and instructing the driver to "deflate" balloon. We are submitting a standalone driver because KVM maintainer (Avi Kivity) expressed opinion (rightly) that our transport does not fit well into virtqueue paradigm and thus it does not make much sense to integrate with virtio. There were also some concerns whether current ballooning technique is the right thing. If there appears a better framework to achieve this we are prepared to evaluate and switch to using it, but in the meantime we'd like to get this driver upstream. We want to get the driver accepted in distributions so that users do not have to deal with an out-of-tree module and many distributions have "upstream first" requirement. The driver has been shipping for a number of years and users running on VMware platform will have it installed as part of VMware Tools even if it will not come from a distribution, thus there should not be additional risk in pulling the driver into mainline. The driver will only activate if host is VMware so everyone else should not be affected at all. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-23 13:18:08 -04:00
uacce: add uacce driver Uacce (Unified/User-space-access-intended Accelerator Framework) targets to provide Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) between accelerators and processes. So accelerator can access any data structure of the main cpu. This differs from the data sharing between cpu and io device, which share only data content rather than address. Since unified address, hardware and user space of process can share the same virtual address in the communication. Uacce create a chrdev for every registration, the queue is allocated to the process when the chrdev is opened. Then the process can access the hardware resource by interact with the queue file. By mmap the queue file space to user space, the process can directly put requests to the hardware without syscall to the kernel space. The IOMMU core only tracks mm<->device bonds at the moment, because it only needs to handle IOTLB invalidation and PASID table entries. However uacce needs a finer granularity since multiple queues from the same device can be bound to an mm. When the mm exits, all bound queues must be stopped so that the IOMMU can safely clear the PASID table entry and reallocate the PASID. An intermediate struct uacce_mm links uacce devices and queues. Note that an mm may be bound to multiple devices but an uacce_mm structure only ever belongs to a single device, because we don't need anything more complex (if multiple devices are bound to one mm, then we'll create one uacce_mm for each bond). uacce_device --+-- uacce_mm --+-- uacce_queue | '-- uacce_queue | '-- uacce_mm --+-- uacce_queue +-- uacce_queue '-- uacce_queue Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Zaibo Xu <xuzaibo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2020-02-11 15:54:23 +08:00