Pull x86 old platform removal from Peter Anvin:
"This patchset removes support for several completely obsolete
platforms, where the maintainers either have completely vanished or
acked the removal. For some of them it is questionable if there even
exists functional specimens of the hardware"
Geert Uytterhoeven apparently thought this was a April Fool's pull request ;)
* 'x86-nuke-platforms-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, platforms: Remove NUMAQ
x86, platforms: Remove SGI Visual Workstation
x86, apic: Remove support for IBM Summit/EXA chipset
x86, apic: Remove support for ia32-based Unisys ES7000
This was an optimization that made memcpy type benchmarks a little
faster on ancient (Circa 1998) IDT Winchip CPUs. In real-life
workloads, it wasn't even noticable, and I doubt anyone is running
benchmarks on 16 year old silicon any more.
Given this code has likely seen very little use over the last decade,
let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The main goal here is to have the resulting .config no carry any
options that aren't enabled and can't be (i.e such where the
default is "no" and can't be changed), so that if any such
option later gets a user visible prompt, the user will actually
be prompted on a "make ...oldconfig" rather than keeping the
previously invisible option disabled.
There's a little bit of other trivial cleanup mixed in here.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/504DEE19020000780009A285@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently cache alignment among nodes in the kernel is still 128
bytes on x86 NUMA machines - we got that X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT
default from old P4 processors.
But now most modern x86 CPUs use the same size: 64 bytes from L1 to
last level L3. so let's remove the incorrect setting, and directly
use the L1 cache size to do SMP cache line alignment.
This patch saves some memory space on kernel data, and it also
improves the cache locality of kernel data.
The System.map is quite different with/without this change:
before patch after patch
...
000000000000b000 d tlb_vector_| 000000000000b000 d tlb_vector
000000000000b080 d cpu_loops_p| 000000000000b040 d cpu_loops_
...
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: asit.k.mallick@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330774047-18597-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A simple implementation that only supports the word size and does not
have a fallback mode (would require a spinlock).
Add 32 and 64 bit support for cmpxchg_double. cmpxchg double uses
the cmpxchg8b or cmpxchg16b instruction on x86 processors to compare
and swap 2 machine words. This allows lockless algorithms to move more
context information through critical sections.
Set a flag CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE to signal that support for double word
cmpxchg detection has been build into the kernel. Note that each subsystem
using cmpxchg_double has to implement a fall back mechanism as long as
we offer support for processors that do not implement cmpxchg_double.
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601172614.173427964@linux.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Testing on the OLPC XO-1.5 (VIA C7-M 1000MHz CPU) shows a partial_csum()
speed increase by a factor of 1.5 when we switch to the Pentium-optimized
version.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: dilinger@queued.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This isn't being referenced anywhere, and the selects done from
it can be easily done together with all the other X86 ones.
v2: Also adjust UML's Kconfig.x86.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D7603DA02000078000351C1@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provide support as far as the hardware capabilities of the x86 cpus
allow.
Define CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL in Kconfig.cpu to allow core code to test for
fast cpuops implementations.
V1->V2:
- Take out the definition for this_cpu_cmpxchg_8 and move it into
a separate patch.
tj: - Reordered ops to better follow this_cpu_* organization.
- Renamed macro temp variables similar to their existing
neighbours.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, fpu: Use static_cpu_has() to implement use_xsave()
x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives
x86, fpu: Use the proper asm constraint in use_xsave()
x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation
x86: Introduce 'struct fpu' and related API
x86: Eliminate TS_XSAVE
x86-32: Don't set ignore_fpu_irq in simd exception
x86: Merge kernel_math_error() into math_error()
x86: Merge simd_math_error() into math_error()
x86-32: Rework cache flush denied handler
Fix trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/process.c
Linus Torvalds
Dave Jones
H. Peter Anvin
Jan Beulich
Alex Shi
Heiko Carstens
Christoph Lameter
Ian Campbell
Lucas De Marchi
Ingo Molnar
Jon Nettleton
Jan Beulich
David Rientjes