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= PA-RISC Linux TODO (actually this is Helge's TODO list) =
 
= PA-RISC Linux TODO (actually this is Helge's TODO list) =
  
== Status & TODO 2017-08-01 ==
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== Status & TODO 2017-08-02 ==
  
 
* Palo needs better user interaction instead of "0", "1".... Howtos.
 
* Palo needs better user interaction instead of "0", "1".... Howtos.
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** parisc: ->mapping_error
 
** parisc: ->mapping_error
 
** parisc: pdc_stable: constify attribute_group structures.
 
** parisc: pdc_stable: constify attribute_group structures.
** '''parisc: Disable further stack checks when panic occurs during stack check'''
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5bc64bd246ca00e0bb0b7137afaf586f2f66a911 '''parisc: Disable further stack checks when panic occurs during stack check''']
** parisc: Merge millicode routines via linker script
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6cd819e8e978b361ae558056a9e79fd30e6acb0d parisc: Merge millicode routines via linker script]
 
** parisc: regenerate defconfig files
 
** parisc: regenerate defconfig files
** parisc: Fix crash when calling PDC_PAT_MEM PDT firmware function
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f520e55241e1cf0c10d308ccf47513f28533f60a parisc: Fix crash when calling PDC_PAT_MEM PDT firmware function]
 
** parisc: Add function to return DIMM slot of physical address
 
** parisc: Add function to return DIMM slot of physical address
 
** parisc: Show DIMM slot number which holds broken memory module
 
** parisc: Show DIMM slot number which holds broken memory module
** '''parisc: Suspend lockup detectors before system halt'''
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=56188832a50f09998cb570ba3771a1d25c193c0e '''parisc: Suspend lockup detectors before system halt'''] (backported to v4.9+)
** '''parisc: Prevent TLB speculation on flushed pages on CPUs that only support equivalent aliases'''
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ae7a609c34b6fb12328c553b5f9aab26ae74a28e '''parisc: Prevent TLB speculation on flushed pages on CPUs that only support equivalent aliases'''] (backported to v4.9+)
** parisc: Extend disabled preemption in copy_user_page
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=56008c04ebc099940021b714da2d7779117cf6a7 parisc: Extend disabled preemption in copy_user_page]
** parisc: Define CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=74ad3d28af2104b92dd83a43add79e6a8c45d8e2 parisc: Define CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN]
** '''parisc: Increase thread and stack size to 32kb''' (backported to v4.11+)
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8f8201dfed91a43ac38c899c82f81eef3d36afd9 '''parisc: Increase thread and stack size to 32kb'''] (backported to v4.11+)
** parisc: pdc_stable: Fix locking when creating sysfs links
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93964fd4ea6ab86a2d2853a9ae56ae0c24cbbe16 parisc: pdc_stable: Fix locking when creating sysfs links]
** '''parisc: Handle vma's whose context is not current in flush_cache_range''' (backported to v4.9+)
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** [http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=13d57093c141db2036364d6be35e394fc5b64728 '''parisc: Handle vma's whose context is not current in flush_cache_range'''] (backported to v4.9+)
  
 
== Debian kernel and userspace programs ==
 
== Debian kernel and userspace programs ==

Revision as of 20:12, 2 August 2017

Contents

PA-RISC Linux TODO (actually this is Helge's TODO list)

Status & TODO 2017-08-02

  • Kernel: still missing Linux kernel development (no patches available yet):
    • maybe implement transparent huge pages (due to cache coherency technically only possible on PA8500-PA8700 CPUs, not possible on PA8800-PA8900 CPUs)
    • optimize flush_dcache_page() implementation like sparc. See Documentation/cachetlb.txt, e.g. used in aio subsystem
    • fix wrong _init notation in kernel
    • NO_IRQ -> should be converted to (0) instead of (-1) -> Helge (check assembly, check in drivers/parisc/*)
    • implement alternative coding for UP/SMP. See arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
    • check assembly in drivers/parisc/*
    • use pdc_add_valid() in kern_addr_valid(), protect against crashable acesses (like for superio-pc-drivers-detection in lp), add pdc_add_valid() to create a probe_kernel_read() implementation.
    • arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c -> use SYSCALL_ALIAS() -> maybe
    • Review gettimeofday and clock_gettime() implementation, possibly use a light-weight-syscall and rely on cr16 and cpu speed for more accurate timing? similiar to commit http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=18ad51dd342a7eb09dbcd059d0b451b616d4dafc
  • Kernel: Low priority patches needs further work
    • disable FP-register save/restore at kernel entry? - https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3975291/
    • enable 16k/64k kernel page sizes (still cacheflushing-issues with SCSI driver, additional work in glibc needed to deal with >4k page size, e.g. ld-loader alignments of data/code segments)
    • Superdome support - can someone test? Should work better now with latest kernels.
    • Visualize FX support (will probably never happen!)
    • implement BUG() and WARN() with inline assembly so that interrupt happens in delay branch of "or,<> %r0,cond,%r0". Probably not possible, because gcc will report "control reaches end of non-void function" warnings/errors.
  • Debian packages / Userspace work
    • IMPORTANT: fix OpenJDK - fixes required in zeroport (stack grows up!).
    • Fix qemu -> Richard Henderson started userspace-qemu in 11/2016: git://github.com/rth7680/qemu.git tgt-hppa
    • 64-bit userspace, 64-bit binutils needs to be fixed to get multiple stub section support.
    • gcc -> join 32- and 64bit compiler, make "-m64" work, get rid of hppa64-linux-gnu-gcc
  • userspace
  • palo (PA-RISC Boot Loader):
    • Modify (if possible), that palo can read (sequential) tftpbootable-vmlinuxes as well as the current boot-vmlinux images (simplifies build/handling)
    • move decompression of Kernel to Linux kernel code instead of palo

Upstream PA-RISC-related kernel patch history

Debian kernel and userspace programs

Debian kernel / Generic Kernel bugs fixed

    • DONE: Fixed 64bit SMP kernel & sticon on machines with more than 4GB RAM (Kernel 3.12)
    • DONE: Lots of syscall fixes regarding compat kernel
    • DONE: send patches to remove UP from debian kernels, use sil680 instead of siimage, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721191 -> fixed in 3.12 / 3.13
    • DONE: Enable BMC in c8000 default kernel config - ipmi driver (CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER=y) - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747482
    • DONE: remove HIL RTC from debian kernel - it creates a backtrace at boot because we have already another rtc0 active.
    • DONE: add ppdev driver, needed by CUPS, systemd reports missing module load (3.17 & 3.16 kernel)
    • DONE: Add crc-modules, event, isofs, jfs, mouse, sata, sound, squashfs, udf, uinput, scsi-common, scsi-extra, loop, serial and usb-serial debian-installer packages
    • DONE: Kernel build problem: a) disable -mfast-indirect-calls in Makefile, b) gcc compiler bug in > gcc-4.8.3-3
    • DONE: Drop HPUX-support from kernel (Kernel 4.0)
    • DONE: implemented HUGE pages
    • DONE: kernel timerfd_settime/timerfd_gettime issue, test with debian package: liblinux-fd-perl -> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7951661/, backported to all kernels
    • DONE: kernel ptrace bug: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/26273, possible fix: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8063301/
    • DONE: Implement CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE, in kernel 4.6
    • DONE: Use 32bit exception table entries, in kernel 4.6
    • DONE: implemented seccomp syscal, including SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT and mode 2
    • DONE: Fixed FTRACE support (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=366dd4ea9d5f0eb78fdf4982d76506f99480ec0a)
    • DONE: Add syscall ftrace support
    • DONE: Simplify get_user()/put_user() with regard to %sr0/%sr2 usage.
    • DONE: Add tracehook support (needed for seccomp testcases, gdb, ...)

ABI breakages (HP-UX support)

Considerations between Debian unstable and Debian Jessie release

Jessie was not stable on SMP machines, particularly those with PA8800/PA8900 processors. It's recommended to use kernel 4.4.15 or later. The current default gcc for unstable is gcc 5.4. Most hppa fixes have been back ported to 4.9 but not all. It shouldn't hurt to use binutils from unstable. Debian glibc 2.23 is best. Most old packages should still work although there maybe inequivalent aliasing issues which are relevant on PA8800. There's also a nasty issue with gmon_start being in every shared library in Jessie. This caused a few headaches and potentially breaks applications when it's removed from a library. If you stick with the glibc in Jessie, multithreaded applications may not work as well as they could, but maybe that's not important. The kernel update is the most important one. Since hppa moved to ports, there has been a huge number of bug fixes. System stability is dramatically improved and I believe more packages are available than ever before. It's better to run unstable and just be selective about running "apt-get upgrade". (by Dave Anglin)

parisc-linux.org Homepage and Debian build server infrastructure work

Testsuites, kernel and userspace testing tools

TODO Drivers

  • IPMI support on rp-class / Support graceful shutdown from BMC on rp servers (`PC -GRACEFUL`)
  • write Lasi floppy driver
  • write Suckyio floppy driver
  • write spifi driver (rbrad)
  • modify ncr53c8xx driver for Outfield (735 & 755)
  • write GSC FDDI driver
  • write Timi ASIC (74x) support
  • EISA DMA support

Review all the todo entries below!

  • ns87415 dma doesn't work reliably on suckyio-systems
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