From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>,
Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 10:19:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8de0474-bc19-489b-8df4-e4a352b7ddf2@paulmck-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <272a909522f2790a30b9a8be73ab7145bf06d486.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 06:53:45PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello Arnd,
>
> On Fri, 2024-05-03 at 10:11 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I had investigated dropping support for alpha EV5 and earlier a while
> > ago after noticing that this is the only supported CPU family
> > in the kernel without native byte access and that Debian has already
> > dropped support for this generation last year [1] after it turned
> > out to be broken.
>
> That's not quite correct. Support for older Alphas is not broken and
> always worked when I tested it. It's just that some people wanted to
> raise the baseline in order to improve code performance on newer machines
> with the hope to fix some minor issues we saw on Alpha here and there.
>
> > This topic came up again when Paul E. McKenney noticed that
> > parts of the RCU code already rely on byte access and do not
> > work on alpha EV5 reliably, so I refreshed my series now for
> > inclusion into the next merge window.
>
> Hrrrm? That sounds like like Paul ran tests on EV5, did he?
Arnd does say "noticed", not "tested". No Alpha CPUs here, and I don't
run Alpha emulators. There is only so much time in each day and only
so much budget for electricity. ;-)
For the series: Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > Al Viro did another series for alpha to address all the known build
> > issues. I rebased his patches without any further changes and included
> > it as a baseline for my work here to avoid conflicts.
>
> It's somewhat strange that Al improves code on the older machines only
> to be axed by your series. I would prefer such removals to aimed at an
> LTS release, if possible.
Once they are in mainline, you are within your rights to send Al's
code-improvement patches to -stable, which should get them to the LTS
releases. It might well be that Arnd was planning to do just that.
Thanx, Paul
> Adrian
>
> --
> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> : :' : Debian Developer
> `. `' Physicist
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-03 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-03 8:11 [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10 Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 01/14] alpha: sort scr_mem{cpy,move}w() out Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 02/14] alpha: fix modversions for strcpy() et.al Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 03/14] alpha: add clone3() support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 04/14] alpha: don't make functions public without a reason Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 05/14] alpha: sys_sio: fix misspelled ifdefs Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 06/14] alpha: missing includes Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 07/14] alpha: core_lca: take the unused functions out Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 08/14] alpha: jensen, t2 - make __EXTERN_INLINE same as for the rest Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 09/14] alpha: trim the unused stuff from asm-offsets.c Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 10/14] alpha: remove DECpc AXP150 (Jensen) support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 16:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-03 17:00 ` Al Viro
2024-05-03 20:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 11/14] alpha: sable: remove early machine support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 12/14] alpha: remove LCA and APECS based machines Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 13/14] alpha: cabriolet: remove EV5 CPU support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 8:11 ` [PATCH 14/14] alpha: drop pre-EV56 support Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-04 15:00 ` Richard Henderson
2024-05-06 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-06-03 6:02 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-06-04 13:58 ` Greg KH
2024-05-03 16:06 ` [PATCH 00/14] alpha: cleanups for 6.10 Matt Turner
2024-05-03 20:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-06 9:16 ` Michael Cree
2024-05-06 10:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-03 16:53 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-03 17:19 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2024-05-27 23:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-28 14:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-29 18:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-29 22:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-30 22:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-31 3:56 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-31 19:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-03 16:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-06-03 17:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-07-01 23:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-30 1:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-30 22:57 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-31 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-06-03 11:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-06-03 11:36 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-06-03 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-01 23:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-31 15:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-31 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-31 16:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-06-01 13:51 ` David Laight
2024-07-01 23:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-07-02 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 0:12 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-07-03 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-04 22:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-06-03 11:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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