The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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>
Remove the define is_uv() is_uv_system and just use the latter as is.
This removes a conflict with a new symbol in the generated uv_mmrs.h
file (is_uv()).
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005203929.148656-4-mike.travis@hpe.com
The only thing remaining of the machvecs is a few checks if we are
running on an SGI UV system. Replace those with the existing
is_uv_system() check that has been rewritten to simply check the
OEM ID directly.
That leaves us with a generic kernel that is as fast as the previous
DIG/ZX1/UV kernels, but can support all hardware. Support for UV
and the HP SBA IOMMU is now optional based on new config options.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-27-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Note this also marks xp broken on ia64 now, as the UV support, which
was disable in generic kernels before actually never compiled due to
undefined uv_gpa_to_soc_phys_ram and uv_gpa_in_mmr_space symbols since
at least commit c2c9f11574 ("x86: uv: update XPC to handle updated
BIOS interface").
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The UV BIOS has moved the location of some of their pointers to the
"partition reserved page" from memory into a uv hub MMR. The GRU does not
support bcopy operations from MMR space so we need to special case the MMR
addresses using VLOAD operations.
Additionally, the BIOS call for registering a message queue watchlist has
removed the 'blade' value and eliminated the structure that was being
passed in. This is also reflected in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provide an SGI SN2/UV agnositic method for converting a global physical
address into a socket physical address.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Define xp_partition_id and xp_region_size to their correct values.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Define xp_expand_memprotect() and xp_restrict_memprotect() so they can be
tailered to the hardware they are run on.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Setup the activate GRU message queue that is used for partition activation
and channel connection on UV systems.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add UV support to xpc_remote_memcpy(), which involves interfacing to the
GRU driver.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Comments in /drivers/misc/sgi-xp has been using '>>>' as a means to draw
attention to something that needs to be done or considered. To avoid
colliding with git rejects, '>>>' will now be replaced by '!!!' to
indicate something to do, and by '???' to indicate something to be
considered.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Create a common remote memcpy function that maps to what the hardware
booted supports.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Support runtime selection of the max number of partitions based on the
hardware being run on.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
