VFIO EEH recovery for PCI passthrough devices fails on PowerNV and pseries
platforms due to missing host-side PE bridge reconfiguration. In the
current implementation, eeh_pe_configure() only performs RTAS or OPAL-based
bridge reconfiguration for native host devices, but skips it entirely for
PEs managed through VFIO in guest passthrough scenarios.
This leads to incomplete EEH recovery when a PCI error affects a
passthrough device assigned to a QEMU/KVM guest. Although VFIO triggers the
EEH recovery flow through VFIO_EEH_PE_ENABLE ioctl, the platform-specific
bridge reconfiguration step is silently bypassed. As a result, the PE's
config space is not fully restored, causing subsequent config space access
failures or EEH freeze-on-access errors inside the guest.
This patch fixes the issue by ensuring that eeh_pe_configure() always
invokes the platform's configure_bridge() callback (e.g.,
pseries_eeh_phb_configure_bridge) even for VFIO-managed PEs. This ensures
that RTAS or OPAL calls to reconfigure the PE bridge are correctly issued
on the host side, restoring the PE's configuration space after an EEH
event.
This fix is essential for reliable EEH recovery in QEMU/KVM guests using
VFIO PCI passthrough on PowerNV and pseries systems.
Tested with:
- QEMU/KVM guest using VFIO passthrough (IBM Power9,(lpar)Power11 host)
- Injected EEH errors with pseries EEH errinjct tool on host, recovery
verified on qemu guest.
- Verified successful config space access and CAP_EXP DevCtl restoration
after recovery
Fixes: 212d16cdca ("powerpc/eeh: EEH support for VFIO PCI device")
Signed-off-by: Narayana Murty N <nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508062928.146043-1-nnmlinux@linux.ibm.com
Building vdso32 on power10 with pcrel leads to following errors:
VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday-32.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S: Assembler messages:
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:40: Error: syntax error; found `@', expected `,'
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:71: Info: macro invoked from here
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:40: Error: junk at end of line: `@notoc'
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:71: Info: macro invoked from here
...
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile:85: arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday-32.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/Makefile:388: vdso_prepare] Error 2
Once the above is fixed, the following happens:
VDSO32C arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday-32.o
cc1: error: '-mpcrel' requires '-mcmodel=medium'
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile:89: arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday-32.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/Makefile:388: vdso_prepare] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:251: __sub-make] Error 2
Make sure pcrel version of CFUNC() macro is used only for powerpc64
builds and remove -mpcrel for powerpc32 builds.
Fixes: 7e3a68be42 ("powerpc/64: vmlinux support building with PCREL addresing")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1fa3453f07d42a50a70114da9905bf7b73304fca.1747073669.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which
exports a symbol only to specified modules
- Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms
- Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Add checkers for redundant or missing <linux/export.h> inclusion
- Deprecate the extra-y syntax
- Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files
* tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits)
genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values
arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds
kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES}
efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static
scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include <linux/export.h> when W=1
scripts/misc-check: check missing #include <linux/export.h> when W=1
scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck
kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile
scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation
kconfig: introduce menu type enum
docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block
kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n
tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering
modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time
kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build
Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation
Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules
Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers
...
The extra-y syntax is deprecated. Instead, use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN),
which behaves equivalently.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:
- Support for dynamic preemption
- Migrate powerpc boards GPIO driver to new setter API
- Added new PMU for KVM host-wide measurement
- Enhancement to htmdump driver to support more functions
- Added character device for couple RTAS supported APIs
- Minor fixes and cleanup
Thanks to Amit Machhiwal, Athira Rajeev, Bagas Sanjaya, Bartosz
Golaszewski, Christophe Leroy, Eddie James, Gaurav Batra, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jiri Slaby
(SUSE), Linus Walleij, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N Rao (AMD), Nilay
Shroff, Ricardo B. Marlière, Ritesh Harjani (IBM), Sathvika Vasireddy,
Shrikanth Hegde, Stephen Rothwell, Sourabh Jain, Thorsten Blum, Vaibhav
Jain, Venkat Rao Bagalkote, and Viktor Malik.
* tag 'powerpc-6.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (52 commits)
MAINTAINERS: powerpc: Remove myself as a reviewer
powerpc/iommu: Use str_disabled_enabled() helper
powerpc/powermac: Use str_enabled_disabled() and str_on_off() helpers
powerpc/mm/fault: Use str_write_read() helper function
powerpc: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in proc_ppc64_init()
powerpc/pseries/iommu: Fix kmemleak in TCE table userspace view
powerpc/kernel: Fix ppc_save_regs inclusion in build
powerpc: Transliterate author name and remove FIXME
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Include header file to get is_kvm_guest() definition
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix IRQ map warnings with XICS on pSeries KVM Guest
powerpc/8xx: Reduce alignment constraint for kernel memory
powerpc/boot: Fix build with gcc 15
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add documentation for H_HTM debugfs interface
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add htm capabilities support to htmdump module
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add htm flags support to htmdump module
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add htm setup support to htmdump module
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add htm info support to htmdump module
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add htm status support to htmdump module
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add htm start support to htmdump module
powerpc/pseries/htmdump: Add htm configure support to htmdump module
...
Recent patch fixed an old commit
'fc2a5a6161a2 ("powerpc/64s: ppc_save_regs is now needed for all 64s builds")'
which is to include building of ppc_save_reg.c only when XMON
and KEXEC_CORE and PPC_BOOK3S are enabled. This was valid, since
ppc_save_regs was called only in replay_system_reset() of old
irq.c which was under BOOK3S.
But there has been multiple refactoring of irq.c and have
added call to ppc_save_regs() from __replay_soft_interrupts
-> replay_soft_interrupts which is part of irq_64.c included
under CONFIG_PPC64. And since ppc_save_regs is called in
CRASH_DUMP path as part of crash_setup_regs in kexec.h,
CONFIG_PPC32 also needs it.
So with this recent patch which enabled the building of
ppc_save_regs.c caused a build break when none of these
(XMON, KEXEC_CORE, BOOK3S) where enabled as part of config.
Patch to enable building of ppc_save_regs.c by defaults.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250511041111.841158-1-maddy@linux.ibm.com
The Fixes commit below tried to add CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S to one of the
conditions to enable the build of ppc_save_regs.o. But it failed to do
so, in fact. The commit omitted to add a dollar sign.
Therefore, ppc_save_regs.o is built always these days (as
"(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S)" is never an empty string).
Fix this by adding the missing dollar sign.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Fixes: fc2a5a6161 ("powerpc/64s: ppc_save_regs is now needed for all 64s builds")
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250417105305.397128-1-jirislaby@kernel.org
The RTAS call ibm,physical-attestation is used to retrieve
information about the trusted boot state of the firmware and
hypervisor on the system, and also Trusted Platform Modules (TPM)
data if the system is TCG 2.0 compliant.
This RTAS interface expects the caller to define different command
structs such as RetrieveTPMLog, RetrievePlatformCertificat and etc,
in a work area with a maximum size of 4K bytes and the response
buffer will be returned in the same work area.
The current implementation of this RTAS function is in the user
space but allocation of the work area is restricted with the system
lockdown. So this patch implements this RTAS function in the kernel
and expose to the user space with open/ioctl/read interfaces.
PAPR (2.13+ 21.3 ibm,physical-attestation) defines RTAS function:
- Pass the command struct to obtain the response buffer for the
specific command.
- This RTAS function is sequence RTAS call and has to issue RTAS
call multiple times to get the complete response buffer (max 64K).
The hypervisor expects the first RTAS call with the sequence 1 and
the subsequent calls with the sequence number returned from the
previous calls.
Expose these interfaces to user space with a
/dev/papr-physical-attestation character device using the following
programming model:
int devfd = open("/dev/papr-physical-attestation");
int fd = ioctl(devfd, PAPR_PHY_ATTEST_IOC_HANDLE,
struct papr_phy_attest_io_block);
- The user space defines the command struct and requests the
response for any command.
- Obtain the complete response buffer and returned the buffer as
blob to the command specific FD.
size = read(fd, buf, len);
- Can retrieve the response buffer once or multiple times until the
end of BLOB buffer.
Implemented this new kernel ABI support in librtas library for
system lockdown
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250416225743.596462-8-haren@linux.ibm.com
The RTAS call ibm,get-dynamic-sensor-state is used to get the
sensor state identified by the location code and the sensor
token. The librtas library provides an API
rtas_get_dynamic_sensor() which uses /dev/mem access for work
area allocation but is restricted under system lockdown.
This patch provides an interface with new ioctl
PAPR_DYNAMIC_SENSOR_IOC_GET to the papr-indices character
driver which executes this HCALL and copies the sensor state
in the user specified ioctl buffer.
Refer PAPR 7.3.19 ibm,get-dynamic-sensor-state for more
information on this RTAS call.
- User input parameters to the RTAS call: location code string
and the sensor token
Expose these interfaces to user space with a /dev/papr-indices
character device using the following programming model:
int fd = open("/dev/papr-indices", O_RDWR);
int ret = ioctl(fd, PAPR_DYNAMIC_SENSOR_IOC_GET,
struct papr_indices_io_block)
- The user space specifies input parameters in
papr_indices_io_block struct
- Returned state for the specified sensor is copied to
papr_indices_io_block.dynamic_param.state
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250416225743.596462-6-haren@linux.ibm.com
The RTAS call ibm,set-dynamic-indicator is used to set the new
indicator state identified by a location code. The current
implementation uses rtas_set_dynamic_indicator() API provided by
librtas library which allocates RMO buffer and issue this RTAS
call in the user space. But /dev/mem access by the user space
is prohibited under system lockdown.
This patch provides an interface with new ioctl
PAPR_DYNAMIC_INDICATOR_IOC_SET to the papr-indices character
driver and expose this interface to the user space that is
compatible with lockdown.
Refer PAPR 7.3.18 ibm,set-dynamic-indicator for more
information on this RTAS call.
- User input parameters to the RTAS call: location code
string, indicator token and new state
Expose these interfaces to user space with a /dev/papr-indices
character device using the following programming model:
int fd = open("/dev/papr-indices", O_RDWR);
int ret = ioctl(fd, PAPR_DYNAMIC_INDICATOR_IOC_SET,
struct papr_indices_io_block)
- The user space passes input parameters in papr_indices_io_block
struct
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250416225743.596462-5-haren@linux.ibm.com
The RTAS call ibm,get-indices is used to obtain indices and
location codes for a specified indicator or sensor token. The
current implementation uses rtas_get_indices() API provided by
librtas library which allocates RMO buffer and issue this RTAS
call in the user space. But writable mapping /dev/mem access by
the user space is prohibited under system lockdown.
To overcome the restricted access in the user space, the kernel
provide interfaces to collect indices data from the hypervisor.
This patch adds papr-indices character driver and expose standard
interfaces such as open / ioctl/ read to user space in ways that
are compatible with lockdown.
PAPR (2.13 7.3.17 ibm,get-indices RTAS Call) describes the
following steps to retrieve all indices data:
- User input parameters to the RTAS call: sensor or indicator,
and indice type
- ibm,get-indices is sequence RTAS call which means has to issue
multiple times to get the entire list of indicators or sensors
of a particular type. The hypervisor expects the first RTAS call
with the sequence 1 and the subsequent calls with the sequence
number returned from the previous calls.
- The OS may not interleave calls to ibm,get-indices for different
indicator or sensor types. Means other RTAS calls with different
type should not be issued while the previous type sequence is in
progress. So collect the entire list of indices and copied to
buffer BLOB during ioctl() and expose this buffer to the user
space with the file descriptor.
- The hypervisor fills the work area with a specific format but
does not return the number of bytes written to the buffer.
Instead of parsing the data for each call to determine the data
length, copy the work area size (RTAS_GET_INDICES_BUF_SIZE) to
the buffer. Return work-area size of data to the user space for
each read() call.
Expose these interfaces to user space with a /dev/papr-indices
character device using the following programming model:
int devfd = open("/dev/papr-indices", O_RDONLY);
int fd = ioctl(devfd, PAPR_INDICES_IOC_GET,
struct papr_indices_io_block)
- Collect all indices data for the specified token to the buffer
char *buf = malloc(RTAS_GET_INDICES_BUF_SIZE);
length = read(fd, buf, RTAS_GET_INDICES_BUF_SIZE)
- RTAS_GET_INDICES_BUF_SIZE of data is returned to the user
space.
- The user space retrieves the indices and their location codes
from the buffer
- Should issue multiple read() calls until reaches the end of
BLOB buffer.
The read() should use the file descriptor obtained from ioctl to
get the data that is exposed to file descriptor. Implemented
support in librtas (rtas_get_indices()) for this new ABI for
system lockdown.
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250416225743.596462-4-haren@linux.ibm.com
Once the lazy preemption is supported, it would be desirable to change
the preemption models at runtime. So add support for dynamic preemption
using DYNAMIC_KEY.
::Tested lightly on Power10 LPAR
Performance numbers indicate that, preempt=none(no dynamic) and
preempt=none(dynamic) are close.
cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched/preempt
(none) voluntary full lazy
perf stat -e probe:__cond_resched -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
1,253 probe:__cond_resched
echo full > /sys/kernel/debug/sched/preempt
cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched/preempt
none voluntary (full) lazy
perf stat -e probe:__cond_resched -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
0 probe:__cond_resched
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250210184334.567383-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
get_stubs_size assumes that there must always be at least one patchable
function entry, which is not always the case (modules that export data
but no code), otherwise it returns -ENOEXEC and thus the section header
sh_size is set to that value. During module_memory_alloc() the size is
passed to execmem_alloc() after being page-aligned and thus set to zero
which will cause it to fail the allocation (and thus module loading) as
__vmalloc_node_range() checks for zero-sized allocs and returns null:
[ 115.466896] module_64: cast_common: doesn't contain __patchable_function_entries.
[ 115.469189] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 115.469496] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 274 at mm/vmalloc.c:3778 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x8b4/0x8f0
...
[ 115.478574] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 115.479545] execmem: unable to allocate memory
Fix this by removing the check completely, since it is anyway not
helpful to propagate this as an error upwards.
Fixes: eec37961a5 ("powerpc64/ftrace: Move ftrace sequence out of line")
Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>
Acked-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250204231821.39140-1-ailiop@suse.com
Pull driver core updatesk from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of driver core updates for 6.15-rc1. Lots of stuff
happened this development cycle, including:
- kernfs scaling changes to make it even faster thanks to rcu
- bin_attribute constify work in many subsystems
- faux bus minor tweaks for the rust bindings
- rust binding updates for driver core, pci, and platform busses,
making more functionaliy available to rust drivers. These are all
due to people actually trying to use the bindings that were in
6.14.
- make Rafael and Danilo full co-maintainers of the driver core
codebase
- other minor fixes and updates"
* tag 'driver-core-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (52 commits)
rust: platform: require Send for Driver trait implementers
rust: pci: require Send for Driver trait implementers
rust: platform: impl Send + Sync for platform::Device
rust: pci: impl Send + Sync for pci::Device
rust: platform: fix unrestricted &mut platform::Device
rust: pci: fix unrestricted &mut pci::Device
rust: device: implement device context marker
rust: pci: use to_result() in enable_device_mem()
MAINTAINERS: driver core: mark Rafael and Danilo as co-maintainers
rust/kernel/faux: mark Registration methods inline
driver core: faux: only create the device if probe() succeeds
rust/faux: Add missing parent argument to Registration::new()
rust/faux: Drop #[repr(transparent)] from faux::Registration
rust: io: fix devres test with new io accessor functions
rust: io: rename `io::Io` accessors
kernfs: Move dput() outside of the RCU section.
efi: rci2: mark bin_attribute as __ro_after_init
rapidio: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: constify 'struct bin_attribute'
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Constify 'struct bin_attribute'
...
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from
Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic
layers.
- The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from
Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the
get_maintainer output.
- The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from
Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the
ucount code.
- The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency
hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a
driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot.
- The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar
Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to
secs_to_jiffies().
- The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from
Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds
some more tests and performs some cleanups.
- The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami
Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of
the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task.
- The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy
Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros.
- Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the
individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin
fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()
relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting
resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES()
resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED()
resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC()
resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED()
samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample
hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex
kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses
watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination
lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap()
lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree
lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration
lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers
lib/rbtree: add random seed
lib/rbtree: split tests
lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure
checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length
scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390
...
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.
This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.
- The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.
- The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
succeed.
- The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
for half a year and nobody has complained.
- The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
effects are anticipated.
- The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.
- The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
noticed when working on the swap code.
- The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
user-visible output.
- The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
handling of large folios.
- The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.
- The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
work for the future removal of page structure fields.
- The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
huge page sizes.
- The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
file-backed mappings.
- The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
for pte-mapped large folios.
- The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
microbenchmark.
- The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
docs.
- The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
when using CMA on large machines.
- The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
page's mapped/unmapped status.
- The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
operations preemptibly.
- The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
encountered while runnimg our selftests.
- The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
determine whether a particular page is a guard page.
- The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
wasn't being effective.
- The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
code.
- The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
Kconfig logic.
- The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.
- The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
vmalloc.
- The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
code easier to follow.
- The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
we accidentally added late last year.
- The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
initialization.
- The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
balancing code.
- The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
is updated accordingly.
- The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.
- The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
it claims.
- The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
checks.
- The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.
- The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
exclusively into a single MM.
- The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.
- The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.
- The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
access to DAMON internal data.
- The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
cmdline options.
- The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
are generated.
- The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
an xarray split.
- The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.
- The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
page allocator code.
- The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.
- The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
has observed in the memory-failure implementation.
- The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
fragmentation.
- The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew
Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.
- The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.
- The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
separately for file and anon pages.
- The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
statistics.
- The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
code.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M
docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
...
Pull modules updates from Petr Pavlu:
- Use RCU instead of RCU-sched
The mix of rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_lock_sched() and
preempt_disable() in the module code and its users has
been replaced with just rcu_read_lock()
- The rest of changes are smaller fixes and updates
* tag 'modules-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (32 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Update the MODULE SUPPORT section
module: Remove unnecessary size argument when calling strscpy()
module: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()
params: Annotate struct module_param_attrs with __counted_by()
bug: Use RCU instead RCU-sched to protect module_bug_list.
static_call: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
kprobes: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
bpf: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
jump_label: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
x86: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
cfi: Use RCU while invoking __module_address().
powerpc/ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
LoongArch: ftrace: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
LoongArch/orc: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
arm64: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
ARM: module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
module: Use RCU in all users of __module_text_address().
module: Use RCU in all users of __module_address().
module: Use RCU in search_module_extables().
...
Pull powerpc updates from Madhavan Srinivasan:
- Remove support for IBM Cell Blades
- SMP support for microwatt platform
- Support for inline static calls on PPC32
- Enable pmu selftests for power11 platform
- Enable hardware trace macro (HTM) hcall support
- Support for limited address mode capability
- Changes to RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB to handle fadump
- Misc fixes and cleanups
Thanks to Abhishek Dubey, Amit Machhiwal, Andreas Schwab, Arnd Bergmann,
Athira Rajeev, Avnish Chouhan, Christophe Leroy, Disha Goel, Donet Tom,
Gaurav Batra, Gautam Menghani, Hari Bathini, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook,
Mahesh Salgaonkar, Michael Ellerman, Paul Mackerras, Ritesh Harjani
(IBM), Sathvika Vasireddy, Segher Boessenkool, Sourabh Jain, Vaibhav
Jain, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote.
* tag 'powerpc-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (61 commits)
powerpc/kexec: fix physical address calculation in clear_utlb_entry()
crypto: powerpc: Mark ghashp8-ppc.o as an OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD
powerpc: Fix 'intra_function_call not a direct call' warning
powerpc/perf: Fix ref-counting on the PMU 'vpa_pmu'
KVM: PPC: Enable CAP_SPAPR_TCE_VFIO on pSeries KVM guests
powerpc/prom_init: Fixup missing #size-cells on PowerBook6,7
powerpc/microwatt: Add SMP support
powerpc: Define config option for processors with broadcast TLBIE
powerpc/microwatt: Define an idle power-save function
powerpc/microwatt: Device-tree updates
powerpc/microwatt: Select COMMON_CLK in order to get the clock framework
net: toshiba: Remove reference to PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver
cpufreq: ppc_cbe: Remove powerpc Cell driver
genirq: Remove IRQ_EDGE_EOI_HANDLER
docs: Remove reference to removed CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR
powerpc: Remove UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE
powerpc/io: Use standard barrier macros in io.c
powerpc/io: Rename _insw_ns() etc.
powerpc/io: Use generic raw accessors
...
Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system
timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
to system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
...
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"A treewide hrtimer timer cleanup
hrtimers are initialized with hrtimer_init() and a subsequent store to
the callback pointer. This turned out to be suboptimal for the
upcoming Rust integration and is obviously a silly implementation to
begin with.
This cleanup replaces the hrtimer_init(T); T->function = cb; sequence
with hrtimer_setup(T, cb);
The conversion was done with Coccinelle and a few manual fixups.
Once the conversion has completely landed in mainline, hrtimer_init()
will be removed and the hrtimer::function becomes a private member"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
wifi: rt2x00: Switch to use hrtimer_update_function()
io_uring: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
serial: xilinx_uartps: Use helper function hrtimer_update_function()
ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
RDMA: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
virtio: mem: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vmwgfx: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/xe/oa: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/vkms: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/msm: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/request: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/uncore: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/pmu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/perf: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/gvt: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/i915/huc: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
drm/amdgpu: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
stm class: heartbeat: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
i2c: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
iio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup()
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core & fair scheduler changes:
- Cancel the slice protection of the idle entity (Zihan Zhou)
- Reduce the default slice to avoid tasks getting an extra tick
(Zihan Zhou)
- Force propagating min_slice of cfs_rq when {en,de}queue tasks
(Tianchen Ding)
- Refactor can_migrate_task() to elimate looping (I Hsin Cheng)
- Add unlikey branch hints to several system calls (Colin Ian King)
- Optimize current_clr_polling() on certain architectures (Yujun
Dong)
Deadline scheduler: (Juri Lelli)
- Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
- Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h
Uclamp:
- Use the uclamp_is_used() helper instead of open-coding it (Xuewen
Yan)
- Optimize sched_uclamp_used static key enabling (Xuewen Yan)
Scheduler topology support: (Juri Lelli)
- Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
- Add wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
- Generalize unique visiting of root domains
- Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
- Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
- Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked
RSEQ: (Michael Jeanson)
- Update kernel fields in lockstep with CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y
- Fix segfault on registration when rseq_cs is non-zero
- selftests: Add rseq syscall errors test
- selftests: Ensure the rseq ABI TLS is actually 1024 bytes
Membarriers:
- Fix redundant load of membarrier_state (Nysal Jan K.A.)
Scheduler debugging:
- Introduce and use preempt_model_str() (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
- Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG unconditional (Ingo Molnar)
Fixes and cleanups:
- Always save/restore x86 TSC sched_clock() on suspend/resume
(Guilherme G. Piccoli)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Thorsten Blum, Juri Lelli, Sebastian
Andrzej Siewior)"
* tag 'sched-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
cpuidle, sched: Use smp_mb__after_atomic() in current_clr_polling()
sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG from self-test config files
sched/debug, Documentation: Remove (most) CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG references from documentation
sched/debug: Make CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG functionality unconditional
sched/debug: Make 'const_debug' tunables unconditional __read_mostly
sched/debug: Change SCHED_WARN_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()
rseq/selftests: Fix namespace collision with rseq UAPI header
include/{topology,cpuset}: Move dl_rebuild_rd_accounting to cpuset.h
sched/topology: Stop exposing partition_sched_domains_locked
cgroup/cpuset: Remove partition_and_rebuild_sched_domains
sched/topology: Remove redundant dl_clear_root_domain call
sched/deadline: Rebuild root domain accounting after every update
sched/deadline: Generalize unique visiting of root domains
sched/topology: Wrappers for sched_domains_mutex
sched/deadline: Ignore special tasks when rebuilding domains
tracing: Use preempt_model_str()
xtensa: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
x86: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
s390: Rely on generic printing of preemption model
...
Pull seccomp updates from Kees Cook:
- avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case (Mateusz
Guzik)
- remove unused 'sd' argument through-out (Oleg Nesterov)
- selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64
* tag 'seccomp-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
seccomp: avoid the lock trip seccomp_filter_release in common case
seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __seccomp_filter()
seccomp: remove the 'sd' argument from __secure_computing()
seccomp: fix the __secure_computing() stub for !HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
seccomp/mips: change syscall_trace_enter() to use secure_computing()
selftests/seccomp: Add hard-coded __NR_uretprobe for x86_64
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- elf: Define and use note name macros (Akihiko Odaki)
- elf: add remaining SHF_ flag macros (Timur Tabi)
- binfmt: Remove loader from linux_binprm struct (Yonatan Goldschmidt)
- binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix variable set but not used warning (sunliming)
* tag 'execve-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix variable set but not used warning
elf: add remaining SHF_ flag macros
binfmt: Remove loader from linux_binprm struct
crash: Remove KEXEC_CORE_NOTE_NAME
s390/crash: Use note name macros
crash: Use note name macros
powerpc/crash: Use note name macros
binfmt_elf: Use note name macros
elf: Define note name macros
Commit 0ab97169aa ("crash_core: add generic function to do reservation")
added a generic function to reserve crashkernel memory. So let's use the
same function on powerpc and remove the architecture-specific code that
essentially does the same thing.
The generic crashkernel reservation also provides a way to split the
crashkernel reservation into high and low memory reservations, which can
be enabled for powerpc in the future.
Along with moving to the generic crashkernel reservation, the code related
to finding the base address for the crashkernel has been separated into
its own function name get_crash_base() for better readability and
maintainability.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-8-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Similar to the PowerMac3,1, the PowerBook6,7 is missing the #size-cells
property on the i2s node.
Depends-on: commit 045b14ca5c ("of: WARN on deprecated #address-cells/#size-cells handling")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
[maddy: added "commit" work in depends-on to avoid checkpatch error]
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/875xmizl6a.fsf@igel.home
The IBM Cell blade support was the last user of UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE.
Although it's still possible to build it via
PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE, AFAIK it's not useful on any
other platfoms, because only Cell and JS20 era machines provided the
RTAS get/put-term-char functions.
If anyone is using it or needs it we can always resurrect it from git.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-19-mpe@ellerman.id.au
IBM Cell Blades used the Cell processor and the "blade" server form
factor. They were sold as models QS20, QS21 & QS22 from roughly 2006 to
2012 [1]. They were used in a few supercomputers (eg. Roadrunner) that
have since been dismantled, and were not that widely used otherwise.
Until recently I still had a working QS22, which meant I was able to
keep the platform support working, but unfortunately that machine has
now died.
I'm not aware of any users. If there is a user that wants to keep the
upstream support working, we can look at bringing some of the code back
as appropriate.
See previous discussion at [2].
Remove the top-level config symbol PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE, and then
the dependent symbols PPC_CELL_NATIVE, PPC_CELL_COMMON, CBE_RAS,
PPC_IBM_CELL_RESETBUTTON, PPC_IBM_CELL_POWERBUTTON, CBE_THERM, and
AXON_MSI. Then remove the associated C files and headers, and trim
unused header content (some is shared with PS3).
Note that PPC_CELL_COMMON sounds like it would build code shared with
PS3, but it does not. It's a relic from when code was shared between the
Blade support and QPACE support.
Most of the primary authors already have CREDITS entries, with the
exception of Christian, so add one for him.
[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2011/06/28/ibm_kills_qs22_blade
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/60581044-df82-40ad-b94c-56468007a93e@app.fastmail.com
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Reorganise arch_static_call_transform() in order to ease the support
of inline static calls in following patch:
- remove 'target' to nhide whether it is a 'return 0' or not.
- Don't bail out if 'tramp' is NULL, just do nothing until next patch.
Note that 'target' was 'tramp + PPC_SCT_RET0', is_short was perforce
true. So in the 'if (func && !is_short)' leg, target was perforce
equal to 'func'.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7a8b9245e773307c315c2548a4c6cad570ac2648.1733245362.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
As the Makefile is included into other Makefiles it can not be used to
define objects to be built from the current source directory.
However the generic datastore will introduce such a local source file.
Rename the included Makefile so it is clear how it is to be used and to
make room for a regular Makefile in lib/vdso/.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-4-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de
