pm24.git/usr, branch v6.7-rc7

arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture

2023-09-11T08:13:17Z

The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX or OpenVMS based.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 Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP

2023-06-06T08:54:49Z

gen_initramfs.sh has an internal dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP for generating file mtimes that is not exposed to make, so changing KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP will not trigger a rebuild of the archive. Declare the mtime date as a new parameter to gen_initramfs.sh to encode KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP in the shell command, thereby making make aware of the dependency. It will rebuild if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP changes or is newly set/unset. It will _not_ rebuild if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is unset before and after. This should be fine for anyone who doesn't care about setting specific build times in the first place. Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive

2023-04-16T08:37:01Z

Similar to commit 4c9d410f32b3 ("initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive"), except asserts that the timestamp is non-negative. This can happen when the KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is a value before UNIX epoch, which may be set when making reproducible builds that don't want to look like they use a valid date. While support for dates before 1970 might not be supported, this is more about preventing undetected CPIO corruption. The printf's use a minimum length format specifier, and will happily make the field longer than 8 characters if they need to. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file

2022-10-03T21:21:44Z

The file variable is assigned first, it does not need to be initialized. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919014406.3242-1-zeming@nfschina.com Signed-off-by: Li zeming Cc: Li zeming Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Nicolas Schier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-05-27T18:22:03Z

Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton: "The non-MM patch queue for this merge window. Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various subsystems. Most notably some maintenance work in ocfs2 and initramfs" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (65 commits) kcov: update pos before writing pc in trace function ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock ocfs2: dlmfs: don't clear USER_LOCK_ATTACHED when destroying lock fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx fat: remove time truncations in vfat_create/vfat_mkdir fat: report creation time in statx fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory fat: split fat_truncate_time() into separate functions MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as a memcg reviewer proc/sysctl: make protected_* world readable ia64: mca: drop redundant spinlock initialization tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lock relay: remove redundant assignment to pointer buf fs/ntfs3: validate BOOT sectors_per_clusters lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list kernel/crash_core.c: remove redundant check of ck_cmdline ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments ...

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2022-05-26T19:09:50Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Add HOSTPKG_CONFIG env variable to allow users to override pkg-config - Support W=e as a shorthand for KCFLAGS=-Werror - Fix CONFIG_IKHEADERS build to support toybox cpio - Add scripts/dummy-tools/pahole to ease distro packagers' life - Suppress false-positive warnings from checksyscalls.sh for W=2 build - Factor out the common code of arch/*/boot/install.sh into scripts/install.sh - Support 'kernel-install' tool in scripts/prune-kernel - Refactor module-versioning to link the symbol versions at the final link of vmlinux and modules - Remove CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS because module-versioning now works in an arch-agnostic way - Refactor modpost, Makefiles * tag 'kbuild-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (56 commits) genksyms: adjust the output format to modpost kbuild: stop merging *.symversions kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS modpost: extract symbol versions from *.cmd files modpost: add sym_find_with_module() helper modpost: change the license of EXPORT_SYMBOL to bool type modpost: remove left-over cross_compile declaration kbuild: record symbol versions in *.cmd files kbuild: generate a list of objects in vmlinux modpost: move *.mod.c generation to write_mod_c_files() modpost: merge add_{intree_flag,retpoline,staging_flag} to add_header scripts/prune-kernel: Use kernel-install if available kbuild: factor out the common installation code into scripts/install.sh modpost: split new_symbol() to symbol allocation and hash table addition modpost: make sym_add_exported() always allocate a new symbol modpost: make multiple export error modpost: dump Module.symvers in the same order of modules.order modpost: traverse the namespace_list in order modpost: use doubly linked list for dump_lists modpost: traverse unresolved symbols in order ...

sparc: add asm/stat.h to UAPI compile-test coverage

2022-05-13T08:56:10Z

asm/stat.h is currently excluded from the UAPI compile-test for ARCH=sparc because of the errors like follows: In file included from : ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:11:2: error: unknown type name 'ino_t' 11 | ino_t st_ino; | ^~~~~ HDRTEST usr/include/asm/param.h ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:12:2: error: unknown type name 'mode_t' 12 | mode_t st_mode; | ^~~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:14:2: error: unknown type name 'uid_t' 14 | uid_t st_uid; | ^~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:15:2: error: unknown type name 'gid_t' 15 | gid_t st_gid; | ^~~~~ The errors can be fixed by prefixing the types with __kernel_. Then, remove the no-header-test entry from user/include/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

powerpc: add asm/stat.h to UAPI compile-test coverage

2022-05-13T08:56:10Z

asm/stat.h is currently excluded from the UAPI compile-test for ARCH=powerpc because of the errors like follows: HDRTEST usr/include/asm/stat.h In file included from :32: ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:32:2: error: unknown type name 'ino_t' 32 | ino_t st_ino; | ^~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:35:2: error: unknown type name 'mode_t' 35 | mode_t st_mode; | ^~~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:40:2: error: unknown type name 'uid_t' 40 | uid_t st_uid; | ^~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:41:2: error: unknown type name 'gid_t' 41 | gid_t st_gid; | ^~~~~ The errors can be fixed by prefixing the types with __kernel_. Then, remove the no-header-test entry from user/include/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

mips: add asm/stat.h to UAPI compile-test coverage

2022-05-13T08:56:10Z

asm/stat.h is currently excluded from the UAPI compile-test for ARCH=mips because of the errors like follows: HDRTEST usr/include/asm/stat.h In file included from :32: ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:22:2: error: unknown type name 'ino_t' 22 | ino_t st_ino; | ^~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:23:2: error: unknown type name 'mode_t' 23 | mode_t st_mode; | ^~~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:25:2: error: unknown type name 'uid_t' 25 | uid_t st_uid; | ^~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:26:2: error: unknown type name 'gid_t' 26 | gid_t st_gid; | ^~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:58:2: error: unknown type name 'mode_t' 58 | mode_t st_mode; | ^~~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:61:2: error: unknown type name 'uid_t' 61 | uid_t st_uid; | ^~~~~ ./usr/include/asm/stat.h:62:2: error: unknown type name 'gid_t' 62 | gid_t st_gid; | ^~~~~ The errors can be fixed by prefixing the types with __kernel_. Then, remove the no-header-test entry from user/include/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

riscv: add linux/bpf_perf_event.h to UAPI compile-test coverage

2022-05-13T08:56:10Z

I can compile this for ARCH=riscv with CONFIG_UAPI_HEADER_TEST=y. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig