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Ard Biesheuvel cf8e865810 arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
Linus Torvalds d68b4b6f30 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options").
 
 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h").
 
 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands").
 
 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions").
 
 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel handling,
   by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot
   un/plug").
 
 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...
2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
Eric DeVolder 88a6f89944 crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
Introduce the crash_hotplug attribute for memory and CPUs for use by
userspace.  These attributes directly facilitate the udev rule for
managing userspace re-loading of the crash kernel upon hot un/plug
changes.

For memory, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the
/sys/devices/system/memory directory.  For example:

 # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/memory/memory81
  looking at device '/devices/system/memory/memory81':
    KERNEL=="memory81"
    SUBSYSTEM=="memory"
    DRIVER==""
    ATTR{online}=="1"
    ATTR{phys_device}=="0"
    ATTR{phys_index}=="00000051"
    ATTR{removable}=="1"
    ATTR{state}=="online"
    ATTR{valid_zones}=="Movable"

  looking at parent device '/devices/system/memory':
    KERNELS=="memory"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS==""
    ATTRS{auto_online_blocks}=="offline"
    ATTRS{block_size_bytes}=="8000000"
    ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1"

For CPUs, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the
/sys/devices/system/cpu directory. For example:

 # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0
  looking at device '/devices/system/cpu/cpu0':
    KERNEL=="cpu0"
    SUBSYSTEM=="cpu"
    DRIVER=="processor"
    ATTR{crash_notes}=="277c38600"
    ATTR{crash_notes_size}=="368"
    ATTR{online}=="1"

  looking at parent device '/devices/system/cpu':
    KERNELS=="cpu"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS==""
    ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1"
    ATTRS{isolated}==""
    ATTRS{kernel_max}=="8191"
    ATTRS{nohz_full}=="  (null)"
    ATTRS{offline}=="4-7"
    ATTRS{online}=="0-3"
    ATTRS{possible}=="0-7"
    ATTRS{present}=="0-3"

With these sysfs attributes in place, it is possible to efficiently
instruct the udev rule to skip crash kernel reloading for kernels
configured with crash hotplug support.

For example, the following is the proposed udev rule change for RHEL
system 98-kexec.rules (as the first lines of the rule file):

 # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes
 SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end"
 SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end"

When examined in the context of 98-kexec.rules, the above rules test if
crash_hotplug is set, and if so, the userspace initiated
unload-then-reload of the crash kernel is skipped.

CPU and memory checks are separated in accordance with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
and CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel config options.  If an architecture
supports, for example, memory hotplug but not CPU hotplug, then the
/sys/devices/system/memory/crash_hotplug attribute file is present, but
the /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug attribute file will NOT be
present.  Thus the udev rule skips userspace processing of memory hot
un/plug events, but the udev rule will evaluate false for CPU events, thus
allowing userspace to process CPU hot un/plug events (ie the
unload-then-reload of the kdump capture kernel).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-5-eric.devolder@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-24 16:25:14 -07:00
Anna-Maria Behnsen e0a99a839f Documentation: core-api/cpuhotplug: Fix state names
Dynamic allocated hotplug states in documentation and the comment above
cpuhp_state enum do not match the code. To not get confused by wrong
documentation, change to proper state names.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515162038.62703-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de
2023-08-08 10:55:58 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner e59e74dc48 x86/topology: Remove CPU0 hotplug option
This was introduced together with commit e1c467e690 ("x86, hotplug: Wake
up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI") to eventually support
physical hotplug of CPU0:

 "We'll change this code in the future to wake up hard offlined CPU0 if
  real platform and request are available."

11 years later this has not happened and physical hotplug is not officially
supported. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512205255.715707999@linutronix.de
2023-05-15 13:44:49 +02:00
Akhil Raj d2bef8e103 Remove duplicate words inside documentation
I have removed repeated `the` inside the documentation

Signed-off-by: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220827145359.32599-1-lf32.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
Thomas Gleixner c9871c800f Documentation: core-api/cpuhotplug: Rewrite the API section
Dave stumbled over the incomplete and confusing documentation of the CPU
hotplug API.

Rewrite it, add the missing function documentations and correct the
existing ones.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210909123212.489059409@linutronix.de
2021-09-11 00:41:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 4ac6d90867 Yet another set of documentation changes:
- A reworking of PDF generation to yield better results for documents
    using CJK fonts in particular.
 
  - A new set of translations into traditional Chinese, a dialect for which
    I am assured there is a community of interested readers.
 
  - A lot more regular Chinese translation work as well.
 
 ...plus the usual assortment of updates, fixes, typo tweaks, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Yet another set of documentation changes:

   - A reworking of PDF generation to yield better results for documents
     using CJK fonts in particular.

   - A new set of translations into traditional Chinese, a dialect for
     which I am assured there is a community of interested readers.

   - A lot more regular Chinese translation work as well.

  ... plus the usual assortment of updates, fixes, typo tweaks, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits)
  docs: sphinx-requirements: Move sphinx_rtd_theme to top
  docs: pdfdocs: Enable language-specific font choice of zh_TW translations
  docs: pdfdocs: Teach xeCJK about character classes of quotation marks
  docs: pdfdocs: Permit AutoFakeSlant for CJK fonts
  docs: pdfdocs: One-half spacing for CJK translations
  docs: pdfdocs: Add conf.py local to translations for ascii-art alignment
  docs: pdfdocs: Preserve inter-phrase space in Korean translations
  docs: pdfdocs: Choose Serif font as CJK mainfont if possible
  docs: pdfdocs: Add CJK-language-specific font settings
  docs: pdfdocs: Refactor config for CJK document
  scripts/kernel-doc: Override -Werror from KCFLAGS with KDOC_WERROR
  docs/zh_CN: Add zh_CN/accounting/psi.rst
  doc: align Italian translation
  Documentation/features/vm: riscv supports THP now
  docs/zh_CN: add infiniband user_verbs translation
  docs/zh_CN: add infiniband user_mad translation
  docs/zh_CN: add infiniband tag_matching translation
  docs/zh_CN: add infiniband sysfs translation
  docs/zh_CN: add infiniband opa_vnic translation
  docs/zh_CN: add infiniband ipoib translation
  ...
2021-09-01 18:49:47 -07:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior c7483d823e Documentation: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
The functions get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() have been
deprecated during the CPU hotplug rework. They map directly to
cpus_read_lock() and cpus_read_unlock().

Update the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210803141621.780504-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2021-08-28 01:46:17 +02:00
Yanteng Si f8c6a07c25 docs/core-api: Modify document layout
Modify the layout of the document and remove unnecessary symbols.

Signed-off-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f151bbc0d1ff6cf24611a698c76b90181f005f8d.1625798719.git.siyanteng@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-07-15 06:33:45 -06:00
Barry Song 319f5fa089 Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: fix a typo
fourV CPUs should be four CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200904101902.29560-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:42:09 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 25d8d4eeca powerpc updates for 5.9
- Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks.
 
  - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on Power9
    or later.
 
  - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be unsupported on
    Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way to implement the
    functionality it requests. This risks breaking userspace, though we believe
    it is unused in practice.
 
  - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion checking.
    We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other architectures.
 
  - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update code, which
    tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised systems, but was prone
    to crashes and other problems.
 
  - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.
 
  - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link stack
    (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.
 
  - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as usual.
 
 Thanks to:
   Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
   Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Anton
   Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bill
   Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Christophe Leroy,
   Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A.
   Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar,
   Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini,
   Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe,
   Kajol Jain, Kamalesh Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li
   RongQing, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal
   Suchanek, Milton Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan
   Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver
   O'Halloran, Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe
   Bergheaud, Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
   Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
   Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar Dronamraju,
   Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Thiago Jung
   Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov, Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong,
   YueHaibing.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks & rwlocks.

 - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
   Power9 or later.

 - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
   unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
   to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
   userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.

 - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
   checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
   architectures.

 - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
   code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
   systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.

 - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.

 - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
   stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.

 - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
   usual.

Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.

* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
  powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
  powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
  powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
  powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
  cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
  cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
  cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
  selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
  powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
  powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
  ...
2020-08-07 10:33:50 -07:00
Yaohui Wang 241c9eb36b Documentation: fix typo for core-api/cpu_hotplug documentation
fix typo for core-api/cpu_hotplug documentation

Signed-off-by: Yaohui Wang <dillionmango@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200722073818.20605-1-dillionmango@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-23 13:59:37 -06:00
Nathan Lynch 48f6e7f6d9 powerpc/pseries: remove cede offline state for CPUs
This effectively reverts commit 3aa565f53c ("powerpc/pseries: Add
hooks to put the CPU into an appropriate offline state"), which added
an offline mode for CPUs which uses the H_CEDE hcall instead of the
architected stop-self RTAS function in order to facilitate "folding"
of dedicated mode processors on PowerVM platforms to achieve energy
savings. This has been the default offline mode since its
introduction.

There's nothing about stop-self that would prevent the hypervisor from
achieving the energy savings available via H_CEDE, so the original
premise of this change appears to be flawed.

I also have encountered the claim that the transition to and from
ceded state is much faster than stop-self/start-cpu. Certainly we
would not want to use stop-self as an *idle* mode. That is what H_CEDE
is for. However, this difference is insignificant in the context of
Linux CPU hotplug, where the latency of an offline or online operation
on current systems is on the order of 100ms, mainly attributable to
all the various subsystems' cpuhp callbacks.

The cede offline mode also prevents accurate accounting, as discussed
before:
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/1571740391-3251-1-git-send-email-ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com/

Unconditionally use stop-self to offline processor threads. This is
the architected method for offlining CPUs on PAPR systems.

The "cede_offline" boot parameter is rendered obsolete.

Removing this code enables the removal of the partition suspend code
which temporarily onlines all present CPUs.

Fixes: 3aa565f53c ("powerpc/pseries: Add hooks to put the CPU into an appropriate offline state")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200612051238.1007764-2-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
2020-07-16 13:12:34 +10:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior ff58fa7f55 Documentation: Update CPU hotplug and move it to core-api
The current CPU hotplug is outdated. During the update to what we
currently have I rewrote it partly and moved to sphinx format.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-01-13 10:32:32 -07:00