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s390: raise minimum supported machine generation to z10
authorVasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:43:31 +0000 (22:43 +0100)
committerVasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:58:17 +0000 (15:58 +0100)
commit4efd417f298bc23bc8b6ac5db5ff79af5ec92ac5
tree41b6781eadef63b049d3c16fa5119f665c80f7a0
parent432b1cc78e985d3c783f1accb2507fbf5a87583d
s390: raise minimum supported machine generation to z10

Machine generations up to z9 (released in May 2006) have been officially
out of service for several years now (z9 end of service - January 31, 2019).
No distributions build kernels supporting those old machine generations
anymore, except Debian, which seems to pick the oldest supported
generation. The team supporting Debian on s390 has been notified about
the change.

Raising minimum supported machine generation to z10 helps to reduce
maintenance cost and effectively remove code, which is not getting
enough testing coverage due to lack of older hardware and distributions
support. Besides that this unblocks some optimization opportunities and
allows to use wider instruction set in asm files for future features
implementation. Due to this change spectre mitigation and usercopy
implementations could be drastically simplified and many newer instructions
could be converted from ".insn" encoding to instruction names.

Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
23 files changed:
arch/s390/Kconfig
arch/s390/Makefile
arch/s390/include/asm/bitops.h
arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h
arch/s390/include/asm/nospec-insn.h
arch/s390/include/asm/timex.h
arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h
arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c
arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.c
arch/s390/kernel/ftrace.h
arch/s390/kernel/mcount.S
arch/s390/kernel/module.c
arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c
arch/s390/kernel/perf_cpum_cf.c
arch/s390/kernel/processor.c
arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
arch/s390/kernel/uprobes.c
arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c
arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
arch/s390/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
arch/s390/tools/gen_facilities.c
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