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<title>arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture</title>
<updated>2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2022-10-20T13:54:33+00:00</published>
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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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 &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ia64: replace #include &lt;asm/export.h&gt; with #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2023-08-22T09:12:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2023-08-19T23:33:50+00:00</published>
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Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost")
deprecated &lt;asm/export.h&gt;, which is now a wrapper of &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

Replace #include &lt;asm/export.h&gt; with #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

After all the &lt;asm/export.h&gt; lines are converted, &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and
&lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt; will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost")
deprecated &lt;asm/export.h&gt;, which is now a wrapper of &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

Replace #include &lt;asm/export.h&gt; with #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;.

After all the &lt;asm/export.h&gt; lines are converted, &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and
&lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt; will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.csum_and_copy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T23:24:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T23:24:13+00:00</published>
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Pull copy_and_csum cleanups from Al Viro:
 "Saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user() and friends"

[ Removing 800+ lines of code and cleaning stuff up is good  - Linus ]

* 'work.csum_and_copy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ppc: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  amd64: switch csum_partial_copy_generic() to new calling conventions
  sparc64: propagate the calling convention changes down to __csum_partial_copy_...()
  xtensa: propagate the calling conventions change down into csum_partial_copy_generic()
  mips: propagate the calling convention change down into __csum_partial_copy_..._user()
  mips: __csum_partial_copy_kernel() has no users left
  mips: csum_and_copy_{to,from}_user() are never called under KERNEL_DS
  sparc32: propagate the calling conventions change down to __csum_partial_copy_sparc_generic()
  i386: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  sh: propage the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  m68k: get rid of zeroing destination on error in csum_and_copy_from_user()
  arm: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy_from_user()
  alpha: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy.c helpers
  saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user()
  csum_and_copy_..._user(): pass 0xffffffff instead of 0 as initial sum
  csum_partial_copy_nocheck(): drop the last argument
  unify generic instances of csum_partial_copy_nocheck()
  icmp_push_reply(): reorder adding the checksum up
  skb_copy_and_csum_bits(): don't bother with the last argument
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Pull copy_and_csum cleanups from Al Viro:
 "Saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user() and friends"

[ Removing 800+ lines of code and cleaning stuff up is good  - Linus ]

* 'work.csum_and_copy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ppc: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  amd64: switch csum_partial_copy_generic() to new calling conventions
  sparc64: propagate the calling convention changes down to __csum_partial_copy_...()
  xtensa: propagate the calling conventions change down into csum_partial_copy_generic()
  mips: propagate the calling convention change down into __csum_partial_copy_..._user()
  mips: __csum_partial_copy_kernel() has no users left
  mips: csum_and_copy_{to,from}_user() are never called under KERNEL_DS
  sparc32: propagate the calling conventions change down to __csum_partial_copy_sparc_generic()
  i386: propagate the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  sh: propage the calling conventions change down to csum_partial_copy_generic()
  m68k: get rid of zeroing destination on error in csum_and_copy_from_user()
  arm: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy_from_user()
  alpha: propagate the calling convention changes down to csum_partial_copy.c helpers
  saner calling conventions for csum_and_copy_..._user()
  csum_and_copy_..._user(): pass 0xffffffff instead of 0 as initial sum
  csum_partial_copy_nocheck(): drop the last argument
  unify generic instances of csum_partial_copy_nocheck()
  icmp_push_reply(): reorder adding the checksum up
  skb_copy_and_csum_bits(): don't bother with the last argument
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<entry>
<title>ia64: Remove perfmon</title>
<updated>2020-09-11T16:34:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2020-09-11T09:49:19+00:00</published>
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perfmon has been marked broken and thus been disabled for all builds
for more than two years.  Remove it entirely.

Cc: Anant Thazhemadam &lt;anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Enthusiastically-ACKed-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911094920.1173631-1-hch@lst.de
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perfmon has been marked broken and thus been disabled for all builds
for more than two years.  Remove it entirely.

Cc: Anant Thazhemadam &lt;anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Enthusiastically-ACKed-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911094920.1173631-1-hch@lst.de
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<entry>
<title>unify generic instances of csum_partial_copy_nocheck()</title>
<updated>2020-08-20T19:45:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-23T02:14:36+00:00</published>
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quite a few architectures have the same csum_partial_copy_nocheck() -
simply memcpy() the data and then return the csum of the copy.

hexagon, parisc, ia64, s390, um: explicitly spelled out that way.

arc, arm64, csky, h8300, m68k/nommu, microblaze, mips/GENERIC_CSUM, nds32,
nios2, openrisc, riscv, unicore32: end up picking the same thing spelled
out in lib/checksum.h (with varying amounts of perversions along the way).

everybody else (alpha, arm, c6x, m68k/mmu, mips/!GENERIC_CSUM, powerpc,
sh, sparc, x86, xtensa) have non-generic variants.  For all except c6x
the declaration is in their asm/checksum.h.  c6x uses the wrapper
from asm-generic/checksum.h that would normally lead to the lib/checksum.h
instance, but in case of c6x we end up using an asm function from arch/c6x
instead.

Screw that mess - have architectures with private instances define
_HAVE_ARCH_CSUM_AND_COPY in their asm/checksum.h and have the default
one right in net/checksum.h conditional on _HAVE_ARCH_CSUM_AND_COPY
*not* defined.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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quite a few architectures have the same csum_partial_copy_nocheck() -
simply memcpy() the data and then return the csum of the copy.

hexagon, parisc, ia64, s390, um: explicitly spelled out that way.

arc, arm64, csky, h8300, m68k/nommu, microblaze, mips/GENERIC_CSUM, nds32,
nios2, openrisc, riscv, unicore32: end up picking the same thing spelled
out in lib/checksum.h (with varying amounts of perversions along the way).

everybody else (alpha, arm, c6x, m68k/mmu, mips/!GENERIC_CSUM, powerpc,
sh, sparc, x86, xtensa) have non-generic variants.  For all except c6x
the declaration is in their asm/checksum.h.  c6x uses the wrapper
from asm-generic/checksum.h that would normally lead to the lib/checksum.h
instance, but in case of c6x we end up using an asm function from arch/c6x
instead.

Screw that mess - have architectures with private instances define
_HAVE_ARCH_CSUM_AND_COPY in their asm/checksum.h and have the default
one right in net/checksum.h conditional on _HAVE_ARCH_CSUM_AND_COPY
*not* defined.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fix a braino in ia64 uaccess csum changes</title>
<updated>2020-06-03T20:18:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T20:15:28+00:00</published>
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Fixes: cc03f19cfd45 (ia64: csum_partial_copy_nocheck(): don't abuse csum_partial_copy_from_user())
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Fixes: cc03f19cfd45 (ia64: csum_partial_copy_nocheck(): don't abuse csum_partial_copy_from_user())
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>take the dummy csum_and_copy_from_user() into net/checksum.h</title>
<updated>2020-05-29T20:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-18T19:26:32+00:00</published>
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now that can be done conveniently - all non-trivial cases have
_HAVE_ARCH_COPY_AND_CSUM_FROM_USER defined, so the fallback in
net/checksum.h is used only for dummy (copy_from_user, then
csum_partial) implementation.  Allowing us to get rid of all
dummy instances, both of csum_and_copy_from_user() and
csum_partial_copy_from_user().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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now that can be done conveniently - all non-trivial cases have
_HAVE_ARCH_COPY_AND_CSUM_FROM_USER defined, so the fallback in
net/checksum.h is used only for dummy (copy_from_user, then
csum_partial) implementation.  Allowing us to get rid of all
dummy instances, both of csum_and_copy_from_user() and
csum_partial_copy_from_user().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ia64: turn csum_partial_copy_from_user() into csum_and_copy_from_user()</title>
<updated>2020-05-29T20:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-18T17:56:09+00:00</published>
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Just use copy_from_user() there, rather than relying upon the wrapper
to have done access_ok()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Just use copy_from_user() there, rather than relying upon the wrapper
to have done access_ok()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ia64: csum_partial_copy_nocheck(): don't abuse csum_partial_copy_from_user()</title>
<updated>2020-05-29T20:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-16T20:10:33+00:00</published>
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Just inline the call and use memcpy() instead of __copy_from_user() and
note that the tail is precisely ia64 csum_partial().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Just inline the call and use memcpy() instead of __copy_from_user() and
note that the tail is precisely ia64 csum_partial().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ia64: remove now unused machvec indirections</title>
<updated>2019-08-16T18:33:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-13T07:25:02+00:00</published>
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With the SGI SN2 machvec removal most of the indirections are unused
now, so remove them.  This includes the entire removal of the mmio
read*/write* macros as the generic ones are identical to the
asm-generic/io.h version.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-17-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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With the SGI SN2 machvec removal most of the indirections are unused
now, so remove them.  This includes the entire removal of the mmio
read*/write* macros as the generic ones are identical to the
asm-generic/io.h version.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-17-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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