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The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals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 <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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The numa_slit variable used by node_distance is available to a
module as long as it is linked at compile-time. However, it is
not available to loadable modules. Leading to errors such as:
ERROR: "numa_slit" [drivers/nvme/host/nvme-core.ko] undefined!
The error above is caused by the nvme multipath code that makes
use of node_distance for its path calculation. When the patch was
added, the lightnvm subsystem would select nvme and always compile
it in, leading to the node_distance call to always succeed.
However, when this requirement was removed, nvme could be compiled
in as a module, which exposed this bug.
This patch extracts node_distance to a function and exports it.
Since ACPI is depending on node_distance being a simple lookup to
numa_slit, the previous behavior is exposed as slit_distance and its
users updated.
Fixes: f333444708f82 "nvme: take node locality into account when selecting a path"
Fixes: 73569e11032f "lightnvm: remove dependencies on BLK_DEV_NVME and PCI"
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjøring <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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acpi_map_pxm_to_node() unconditially maps nodes even when NUMA is turned
off. So acpi_get_node() might return a node > 0, which is fatal when NUMA
is disabled as the rest of the kernel assumes that only node 0 exists.
Expose numa_off to the acpi code and return NUMA_NO_NODE when it's set.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481602709-18260-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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numa_clear_node() function is not implemented under IA64,
it will be called in unmap_cpu_on_node() in mm/memory_hotplug.c.
This cause build error under IA64, this patch adds numa_clear_node()
in IA64 to fix this problem.
[Added __cpuinit notation to numa_clear_node() to keep linker happy -Tony]
Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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In arch ia64, has following definition:
extern u8 numa_slit[MAX_NUMNODES * MAX_NUMNODES];
#define node_distance(from,to) (numa_slit[(from) * num_online_nodes() + (to)])
num_online_nodes() is a variable value, it can be changed after hot-remove/add
a node.
In my practice, I found node distance is wrong after offline
a node in IA64 platform. For example system has 4 nodes:
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3
0: 10 21 21 32
1: 21 10 32 21
2: 21 32 10 21
3: 32 21 21 10
linux-drf:/sys/devices/system/node/node0 # cat distance
10 21 21 32
linux-drf:/sys/devices/system/node/node1 # cat distance
21 10 32 21
After offline node2:
linux-drf:/sys/devices/system/node/node0 # cat distance
10 21 32
linux-drf:/sys/devices/system/node/node1 # cat distance
32 21 32 --------->expected value is: 21 10 21
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Move definition of NUMA_NO_NODE from ia64 and x86_64 arch specific headers
to generic header 'linux/numa.h' for use in generic code. NUMA_NO_NODE
replaces bare '-1' where it's used in this series to indicate "no node id
specified". Ultimately, it can be used to replace the -1 elsewhere where
it is used similarly.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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After moving the the include files there were a few clean-ups:
1) Some files used #include <asm-ia64/xyz.h>, changed to <asm/xyz.h>
2) Some comments alerted maintainers to look at various header files to
make matching updates if certain code were to be changed. Updated these
comments to use the new include paths.
3) Some header files mentioned their own names in initial comments. Just
deleted these self references.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel
Matias Bjørling
Boris Ostrovsky
Yijing Wang
Jianguo Wu
Lee Schermerhorn
Tony Luck