The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.
As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.
While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
We have a handful of new kernel features for 5.11:
* Support for the contiguous memory allocator.
* Support for IRQ Time Accounting
* Support for stack tracing
* Support for strict /dev/mem
* Support for kernel section protection
I'm being a bit conservative on the cutoff for this round due to the
timing, so this is all the new development I'm going to take for this
cycle (even if some of it probably normally would have been OK). There
are, however, some fixes on the list that I will likely be sending along
either later this week or early next week.
There is one issue in here: one of my test configurations
(PREEMPT{,_DEBUG}=y) fails to boot on QEMU 5.0.0 (from April) as of the
.text.init alignment patch. With any luck we'll sort out the issue, but
given how many bugs get fixed all over the place and how unrelated those
features seem my guess is that we're just running into something that's
been lurking for a while and has already been fixed in the newer QEMU
(though I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of these implicit
assumptions we have in the boot flow). If it was hardware I'd be
strongly inclined to look more closely, but given that users can upgrade
their simulators I'm less worried about it.
There are two merge conflicts, both in build files. They're both a bit
clunky: arch/riscv/Kconfig is out of order (I have a script that's
supposed to keep them in order, I'll fix it) and lib/Makefile is out of
order (though GENERIC_LIB here doesn't mean quite what it does above).
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Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.11-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
"We have a handful of new kernel features for 5.11:
- Support for the contiguous memory allocator.
- Support for IRQ Time Accounting
- Support for stack tracing
- Support for strict /dev/mem
- Support for kernel section protection
I'm being a bit conservative on the cutoff for this round due to the
timing, so this is all the new development I'm going to take for this
cycle (even if some of it probably normally would have been OK). There
are, however, some fixes on the list that I will likely be sending
along either later this week or early next week.
There is one issue in here: one of my test configurations
(PREEMPT{,_DEBUG}=y) fails to boot on QEMU 5.0.0 (from April) as of
the .text.init alignment patch.
With any luck we'll sort out the issue, but given how many bugs get
fixed all over the place and how unrelated those features seem my
guess is that we're just running into something that's been lurking
for a while and has already been fixed in the newer QEMU (though I
wouldn't be surprised if it's one of these implicit assumptions we
have in the boot flow). If it was hardware I'd be strongly inclined to
look more closely, but given that users can upgrade their simulators
I'm less worried about it"
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.11-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
arm64: Use the generic devmem_is_allowed()
arm: Use the generic devmem_is_allowed()
RISC-V: Use the new generic devmem_is_allowed()
lib: Add a generic version of devmem_is_allowed()
riscv: Fixed kernel test robot warning
riscv: kernel: Drop unused clean rule
riscv: provide memmove implementation
RISC-V: Move dynamic relocation section under __init
RISC-V: Protect all kernel sections including init early
RISC-V: Align the .init.text section
RISC-V: Initialize SBI early
riscv: Enable ARCH_STACKWALK
riscv: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
riscv: Cleanup stacktrace
riscv: Add HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
riscv: Enable CMA support
riscv: Ignore Image.* and loader.bin
riscv: Clean up boot dir
riscv: Fix compressed Image formats build
RISC-V: Add kernel image sections to the resource tree
This cleans up two ancient timer features that were never completed in
the past, CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS and CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET.
There was only one user left for the ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET variant
of clocksource implementations, the ARM EBSA110 platform. Rather than
changing to use modern timekeeping, we remove the platform entirely as
Russell no longer uses his machine and nobody else seems to have one
any more.
The conditional code for using arch_gettimeoffset() is removed as
a result.
For CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, there are still a couple of platforms
not using clockevent drivers: parisc, ia64, most of m68k, and one
Arm platform. These all do timer ticks slighly differently, and this
gets cleaned up to the point they at least all call the same helper
function. Instead of most platforms using 'select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS'
in Kconfig, the polarity is now reversed, with the few remaining ones
selecting LEGACY_TIMER_TICK instead.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Merge tag 'asm-generic-timers-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull asm-generic cross-architecture timer cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
"This cleans up two ancient timer features that were never completed in
the past, CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS and CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET.
There was only one user left for the ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET variant
of clocksource implementations, the ARM EBSA110 platform. Rather than
changing to use modern timekeeping, we remove the platform entirely as
Russell no longer uses his machine and nobody else seems to have one
any more.
The conditional code for using arch_gettimeoffset() is removed as a
result.
For CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, there are still a couple of platforms
not using clockevent drivers: parisc, ia64, most of m68k, and one Arm
platform. These all do timer ticks slighly differently, and this gets
cleaned up to the point they at least all call the same helper
function.
Instead of most platforms using 'select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS' in
Kconfig, the polarity is now reversed, with the few remaining ones
selecting LEGACY_TIMER_TICK instead"
* tag 'asm-generic-timers-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
timekeeping: default GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS to enabled
timekeeping: remove xtime_update
m68k: remove timer_interrupt() function
m68k: change remaining timers to legacy_timer_tick
m68k: m68328: use legacy_timer_tick()
m68k: sun3/sun3c: use legacy_timer_tick
m68k: split heartbeat out of timer function
m68k: coldfire: use legacy_timer_tick()
parisc: use legacy_timer_tick
ARM: rpc: use legacy_timer_tick
ia64: convert to legacy_timer_tick
timekeeping: add CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK
timekeeping: remove arch_gettimeoffset
net: remove am79c961a driver
ARM: remove ebsa110 platform
RISCV_TIMER/CLINT_TIMER is required for RISC-V system, and it
provides sched_clock, which allow us to enable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING.
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Almost all machines use GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, so it feels wrong to
require each one to select that symbol manually.
Instead, enable it whenever CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK is disabled as
a simplification. It should be possible to select both
GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS and LEGACY_TIMER_TICK from an architecture now
and decide at runtime between the two.
For the clockevents arch-support.txt file, this means that additional
architectures are marked as TODO when they have at least one machine
that still uses LEGACY_TIMER_TICK, rather than being marked 'ok' when
at least one machine has been converted. This means that both m68k and
arm (for riscpc) revert to TODO.
At this point, we could just always enable CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
rather than leaving it off when not needed. I built an m68k
defconfig kernel (using gcc-10.1.0) and found that this would add
around 5.5KB in kernel image size:
text data bss dec hex filename
3861936 1092236 196656 5150828 4e986c obj-m68k/vmlinux-no-clockevent
3866201 1093832 196184 5156217 4ead79 obj-m68k/vmlinux-clockevent
On Arm (MACH_RPC), that difference appears to be twice as large,
around 11KB on top of an 6MB vmlinux.
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
parisc has selected CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS since commit 43b1f6abd5
("parisc: Switch to generic sched_clock implementation"), but does not
appear to actually be using it, and instead calls the low-level
timekeeping functions directly.
Remove the GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS select again, and instead convert to
the newly added legacy_timer_tick() helper.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
With Arm EBSA110 gone, nothing uses it any more, so the corresponding
code and the Kconfig option can be removed.
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window"
* tag 'docs-5.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation/locking/locktypes: fix the typo
doc/zh_CN: resolve undefined label warning in admin-guide index
doc/zh_CN: fix title heading markup in admin-guide cpu-load
docs: remove the 2.6 "Upgrading I2C Drivers" guide
docs: Correct the release date of 5.2 stable
mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis
docs: cdrom: Fix a typo and rst markup
Doc: admin-guide: use correct legends in kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/features: refresh RISC-V arch support files
documentation: coccinelle: Improve command example for make C={1,2}
Core-api: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Dev-tools: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Filesystems: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
docs: trace: fix a typo
The unicore32 port do not seem maintained for a long time now, there is no
upstream toolchain that can create unicore32 binaries and all the links to
prebuilt toolchains for unicore32 are dead. Even compilers that were
available are not supported by the kernel anymore.
Guenter Roeck says:
I have stopped building unicore32 images since v4.19 since there is no
available compiler that is still supported by the kernel. I am surprised
that support for it has not been removed from the kernel.
Remove unicore32 port.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Now that the script 'features-refresh.sh' is available, uses this script
to refresh all the arch-support.txt files in place.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A number of architecture ports are obsolete and getting dropped,
so we no longer want to track the respective features.
We already removed the lines for metag and mn10300, this does
the same edits for all the others.
For the remaining 21 architectures, this shows how many are known
to implement each given feature:
19 time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt
19 time/clockevents/arch-support.txt
15 core/tracehook/arch-support.txt
14 core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt
13 locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt
12 io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt
11 debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt
10 time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt
9 debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt
9 debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt
8 vm/THP/arch-support.txt
8 vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt
8 vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt
8 io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt
7 perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt
7 locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt
7 debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt
7 core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt
7 core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt
6 vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt
6 time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt
6 seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt
6 debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt
5 time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt
5 io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
5 debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt
4 vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt
4 time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt
4 perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
4 perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
3 debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt
2 vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt
2 vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt
2 sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt
2 sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
2 locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt
2 debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt
2 debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt
1 vm/TLB/arch-support.txt
1 locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt
1 locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt
1 debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt
0 lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt
Note that the list does not include riscv or nds32 yet, these still
need to be added.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in
Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel,
hence remove all references to it from Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
arm64 relies on the arm_arch_timer for sched_clock, so we can select
HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING and have the core sched-clock code enable the
feature at runtime based on the rate.
Reported-by: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
