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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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>
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CONFIG_* switches should not be exposed in uapi headers. The macros that
are defined here are also only useful for the kernel code, so let's move
them to asm/cmpxchg.h instead.
The only two files that are using these macros are the headers
arch/ia64/include/asm/bitops.h and arch/ia64/include/asm/atomic.h and
these include asm/cmpxchg.h via asm/intrinsics.h, so this movement should
not cause any trouble.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230426065032.517693-1-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Decrease the probability of this internal facility to be used by
driver code.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> [riscv]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230118154450.73842-1-andrzej.hajda@intel.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We'd like all architectures to convert to ARCH_ATOMIC, as once all
architectures are converted it will be possible to make significant
cleanups to the atomics headers, and this will make it much easier to
generically enable atomic functionality (e.g. debug logic in the
instrumented wrappers).
As a step towards that, this patch migrates ia64 to ARCH_ATOMIC. The
arch code provides arch_{atomic,atomic64,xchg,cmpxchg}*(), and common
code wraps these with optional instrumentation to provide the regular
functions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525140232.53872-20-mark.rutland@arm.com
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Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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commit 93f378883cecb9dcb2cf5b51d9d24175906659da
"Fix ia64 build errors (fallout from system.h disintegration)"
introduced arch/ia64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h as a temporary
build fix and stated:
"... leave the migration of xchg() and cmpxchg() to this new
header file for a future patch."
Migrate the appropriate chunks from asm/intrinsics.h and fix
the whitespace issues in the migrated chunk.
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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The empty asm/cmpxchg.h file that was provided as a temporary build fix
for the asm/system.h disintgration build problem should really include
<asm/intrinsics.h> to make definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
available.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix this build error on ia64:
In file included from include/linux/sched.h:92,
from arch/ia64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9:
include/linux/llist.h:59:25: error: asm/cmpxchg.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [arch/ia64/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
Right now we don't seem to need any actual contents for the
asm/cmpxchg.h to make the build work ... so leave the migration of
xchg() and cmpxchg() to this new header file for a future patch.
Also process.c needs <asm/switch_to.h> (for definition of pfm_syst_info).
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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