<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v6.13-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: Reorganize kerneldoc parameter names</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T13:28:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>Julia.Lawall@inria.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-30T11:20:55+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Reorganize kerneldoc parameter names to match the parameter
order in the function header.

Problems identified using Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Reorganize kerneldoc parameter names to match the parameter
order in the function header.

Problems identified using Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@inria.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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<pre>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: constify ctl_table arguments of utility function</title>
<updated>2024-06-03T13:16:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-13T09:25:18+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In a future commit the proc_handlers themselves will change to
"const struct ctl_table". As a preparation for that adapt the internal
helper.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
In a future commit the proc_handlers themselves will change to
"const struct ctl_table". As a preparation for that adapt the internal
helper.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: move the extra1/2 boundary check of u8 to sysctl_check_table_array</title>
<updated>2024-06-03T13:14:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wen Yang</name>
<email>wen.yang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-19T03:36:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Move boundary checking for proc_dou8ved_minmax into module loading, thereby
reporting errors in advance. And add a kunit test case ensuring the
boundary check is done correctly.

The boundary check in proc_dou8vec_minmax done to the extra elements in
the ctl_table struct is currently performed at runtime. This allows buggy
kernel modules to be loaded normally without any errors only to fail
when used.

This is a buggy example module:
	#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/sysctl.h&gt;

	static struct ctl_table_header *_table_header = NULL;
	static unsigned char _data = 0;
	struct ctl_table table[] = {
		{
			.procname       = "foo",
			.data           = &amp;_data,
			.maxlen         = sizeof(u8),
			.mode           = 0644,
			.proc_handler   = proc_dou8vec_minmax,
			.extra1         = SYSCTL_ZERO,
			.extra2         = SYSCTL_ONE_THOUSAND,
		},
	};

	static int init_demo(void) {
		_table_header = register_sysctl("kernel", table);
		if (!_table_header)
			return -ENOMEM;

		return 0;
	}

	module_init(init_demo);
	MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

And this is the result:
        # insmod test.ko
        # cat /proc/sys/kernel/foo
        cat: /proc/sys/kernel/foo: Invalid argument

Suggested-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Move boundary checking for proc_dou8ved_minmax into module loading, thereby
reporting errors in advance. And add a kunit test case ensuring the
boundary check is done correctly.

The boundary check in proc_dou8vec_minmax done to the extra elements in
the ctl_table struct is currently performed at runtime. This allows buggy
kernel modules to be loaded normally without any errors only to fail
when used.

This is a buggy example module:
	#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/sysctl.h&gt;

	static struct ctl_table_header *_table_header = NULL;
	static unsigned char _data = 0;
	struct ctl_table table[] = {
		{
			.procname       = "foo",
			.data           = &amp;_data,
			.maxlen         = sizeof(u8),
			.mode           = 0644,
			.proc_handler   = proc_dou8vec_minmax,
			.extra1         = SYSCTL_ZERO,
			.extra2         = SYSCTL_ONE_THOUSAND,
		},
	};

	static int init_demo(void) {
		_table_header = register_sysctl("kernel", table);
		if (!_table_header)
			return -ENOMEM;

		return 0;
	}

	module_init(init_demo);
	MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

And this is the result:
        # insmod test.ko
        # cat /proc/sys/kernel/foo
        cat: /proc/sys/kernel/foo: Invalid argument

Suggested-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T07:43:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T13:30:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=11a921909fea230cf7afcd6842a9452f3720b61b'/>
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<content type='text'>
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove the sentinel from ctl_table arrays. Reduce by one the values used
to compare the size of the adjusted arrays.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove the sentinel from ctl_table arrays. Reduce by one the values used
to compare the size of the adjusted arrays.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Support to dump instance traces by ftrace_dump_on_oops</title>
<updated>2024-03-18T14:33:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Yiwei</name>
<email>quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-23T08:31:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Currently ftrace only dumps the global trace buffer on an OOPs. For
debugging a production usecase, instance trace will be helpful to
check specific problems since global trace buffer may be used for
other purposes.

This patch extend the ftrace_dump_on_oops parameter to dump a specific
or multiple trace instances:

  - ftrace_dump_on_oops=0: as before -- don't dump
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops[=1]: as before -- dump the global trace buffer
  on all CPUs
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops=2 or =orig_cpu: as before -- dump the global
  trace buffer on CPU that triggered the oops
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops=&lt;instance_name&gt;: new behavior -- dump the
  tracing instance matching &lt;instance_name&gt;
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2/orig_cpu],&lt;instance1_name&gt;[=2/orig_cpu],
  &lt;instrance2_name&gt;[=2/orig_cpu]: new behavior -- dump the global trace
  buffer and multiple instance buffer on all CPUs, or only dump on CPU
  that triggered the oops if =2 or =orig_cpu is given

Also, the sysctl node can handle the input accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240223083126.1817731-1-quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com

Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huang Yiwei &lt;quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently ftrace only dumps the global trace buffer on an OOPs. For
debugging a production usecase, instance trace will be helpful to
check specific problems since global trace buffer may be used for
other purposes.

This patch extend the ftrace_dump_on_oops parameter to dump a specific
or multiple trace instances:

  - ftrace_dump_on_oops=0: as before -- don't dump
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops[=1]: as before -- dump the global trace buffer
  on all CPUs
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops=2 or =orig_cpu: as before -- dump the global
  trace buffer on CPU that triggered the oops
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops=&lt;instance_name&gt;: new behavior -- dump the
  tracing instance matching &lt;instance_name&gt;
  - ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2/orig_cpu],&lt;instance1_name&gt;[=2/orig_cpu],
  &lt;instrance2_name&gt;[=2/orig_cpu]: new behavior -- dump the global trace
  buffer and multiple instance buffer on all CPUs, or only dump on CPU
  that triggered the oops if =2 or =orig_cpu is given

Also, the sysctl node can handle the input accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240223083126.1817731-1-quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com

Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huang Yiwei &lt;quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T01:28:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=1e0c505e13162a2abe7c984309cfe2ae976b428d'/>
<id>1e0c505e13162a2abe7c984309cfe2ae976b428d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Rename perf_proc_update_handler() -&gt; perf_event_max_sample_rate_handler(), for readability</title>
<updated>2023-10-05T08:26:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiu Jianfeng</name>
<email>xiujianfeng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-21T09:06:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=e6814ec3ba1994561db9b1c05a80227d30cc18fa'/>
<id>e6814ec3ba1994561db9b1c05a80227d30cc18fa</id>
<content type='text'>
Follow the naming pattern of the other sysctl handlers in perf.

Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng &lt;xiujianfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721090607.172002-1-xiujianfeng@huawei.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Follow the naming pattern of the other sysctl handlers in perf.

Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng &lt;xiujianfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721090607.172002-1-xiujianfeng@huawei.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture</title>
<updated>2023-09-11T08:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<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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<title>Merge tag 'v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T23:05:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T23:05:21+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The changes for sysctl are in line with prior efforts to stop usage of
  deprecated routines which incur recursion and also make it hard to
  remove the empty array element in each sysctl array declaration.

  The most difficult user to modify was parport which required a bit of
  re-thinking of how to declare shared sysctls there, Joel Granados has
  stepped up to the plate to do most of this work and eventual removal
  of register_sysctl_table(). That work ended up saving us about 1465
  bytes according to bloat-o-meter. Since we gained a few bloat-o-meter
  karma points I moved two rather small sysctl arrays from
  kernel/sysctl.c leaving us only two more sysctl arrays to move left.

  Most changes have been tested on linux-next for about a month. The
  last straggler patches are a minor parport fix, changes to the sysctl
  kernel selftest so to verify correctness and prevent regressions for
  the future change he made to provide an alternative solution for the
  special sysctl mount point target which was using the now deprecated
  sysctl child element.

  This is all prep work to now finally be able to remove the empty array
  element in all sysctl declarations / registrations which is expected
  to save us a bit of bytes all over the kernel. That work will be
  tested early after v6.5-rc1 is out"

* tag 'v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: replace child with an enumeration
  sysctl: Remove debugging dump_stack
  test_sysclt: Test for registering a mount point
  test_sysctl: Add an option to prevent test skip
  test_sysctl: Add an unregister sysctl test
  test_sysctl: Group node sysctl test under one func
  test_sysctl: Fix test metadata getters
  parport: plug a sysctl register leak
  sysctl: move security keys sysctl registration to its own file
  sysctl: move umh sysctl registration to its own file
  signal: move show_unhandled_signals sysctl to its own file
  sysctl: remove empty dev table
  sysctl: Remove register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Refactor base paths registrations
  sysctl: stop exporting register_sysctl_table
  parport: Removed sysctl related defines
  parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_default_proc_register
  parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_device_proc_register
  parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_proc_register
  parport: Move magic number "15" to a define
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The changes for sysctl are in line with prior efforts to stop usage of
  deprecated routines which incur recursion and also make it hard to
  remove the empty array element in each sysctl array declaration.

  The most difficult user to modify was parport which required a bit of
  re-thinking of how to declare shared sysctls there, Joel Granados has
  stepped up to the plate to do most of this work and eventual removal
  of register_sysctl_table(). That work ended up saving us about 1465
  bytes according to bloat-o-meter. Since we gained a few bloat-o-meter
  karma points I moved two rather small sysctl arrays from
  kernel/sysctl.c leaving us only two more sysctl arrays to move left.

  Most changes have been tested on linux-next for about a month. The
  last straggler patches are a minor parport fix, changes to the sysctl
  kernel selftest so to verify correctness and prevent regressions for
  the future change he made to provide an alternative solution for the
  special sysctl mount point target which was using the now deprecated
  sysctl child element.

  This is all prep work to now finally be able to remove the empty array
  element in all sysctl declarations / registrations which is expected
  to save us a bit of bytes all over the kernel. That work will be
  tested early after v6.5-rc1 is out"

* tag 'v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: replace child with an enumeration
  sysctl: Remove debugging dump_stack
  test_sysclt: Test for registering a mount point
  test_sysctl: Add an option to prevent test skip
  test_sysctl: Add an unregister sysctl test
  test_sysctl: Group node sysctl test under one func
  test_sysctl: Fix test metadata getters
  parport: plug a sysctl register leak
  sysctl: move security keys sysctl registration to its own file
  sysctl: move umh sysctl registration to its own file
  signal: move show_unhandled_signals sysctl to its own file
  sysctl: remove empty dev table
  sysctl: Remove register_sysctl_table
  sysctl: Refactor base paths registrations
  sysctl: stop exporting register_sysctl_table
  parport: Removed sysctl related defines
  parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_default_proc_register
  parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_device_proc_register
  parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_proc_register
  parport: Move magic number "15" to a define
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