History log of /linux-master/Documentation/features/list-arch.sh
Revision Date Author Comments
# ca908577 30-Nov-2020 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

scripts: get_feat.pl: use its implementation for list-arch.sh

Add support for the same output format as the bash script,
and use its implementation instead of the previous one.

I opted to do such patch in order to have a single script
responsible for parsing Documentation/features and
produce different outputs.

As someone may rely on the past format, which is easy
to parse it, get_feat.pl now gains a new command with
the same output format as the previous script.

As a side effect, the perl script is a lot faster, as it reads
each file only once, instead of parsing files several times
via a for command and grep commands inside it.

This patch also changes the features list order to be
case-insensitive, in order to better match the output of
the existing script.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a97f49677805ad4e6b982d02c0db8c9dfbbd20a6.1606748711.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 26be459c 09-Feb-2018 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Documentation/features: Allow comments in arch features files

The list-arch.sh script considers lines beginning with "#" as match for
the feature table.

Given that those tables are never in lines beginning with "#",
add a reverse grep on "^#" when matching the "ok/TODO" state of
the architecture.

This allows adding comments within the feature files, for instance
describing the architecture requirements for the feature in each
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518282058-24226-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# df8a0dde 21-Jan-2016 dcg <diegocg@gmail.com>

Remove "arch" usage in Documentation/features/list-arch.sh

Commit 669f6f96c680a741257ada44a28b580df2e1fc25 introduced
the script list-arch.sh, which uses the command "arch":

ARCH=${1:-$(arch | sed 's/x86_64/x86/' | sed 's/i386/x86/')}

It turns out that the "arch" command does not exist in my system (arch
distro). Google found man pages which say "arch is deprecated command since
release util-linux 2.13. Use uname -m" (util-linux 2.13 was released in 2007).
I also found a debian bug reporting the lack of arch and being told to use
uname -m https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446023

But then, why it works in some distros? Apparently coreutils gained an
optional arch command that needs to be explicitly enabled during compilation.
Some distros enable it, others don't. Sigh.

Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 669f6f96 02-Jun-2015 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Documentation/features: Explain kernel feature descriptions and add visualization script

The previous patches added arch support matrices for more than 40 generic kernel features
that need per architecture support.

The structure of the feature descriptions is the following:

Each feature has its own directory under Documentation/features/subsystem_name/feature_name/,
and the arch-support.txt file shows its current arch porting status.

For example, lockdep support is shown the following way:

triton:~/tip> cat Documentation/features/locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt
#
# Feature name: lockdep
# Kconfig: LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
# description: arch supports the runtime locking correctness debug facility
#
-----------------------
| arch |status|
-----------------------
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | ok |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | ok |
| avr32: | ok |
| blackfin: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| cris: | TODO |
| frv: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | ok |
| ia64: | TODO |
| m32r: | TODO |
| m68k: | TODO |
| metag: | ok |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | ok |
| mn10300: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| score: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |
| tile: | ok |
| um: | ok |
| unicore32: | ok |
| x86: | ok |
| xtensa: | ok |
-----------------------

For generic kernel features that need architecture support, the
arch-support.txt file in each feature directory shows the arch
support matrix, for all upstream Linux architectures.

The meaning of entries in the tables is:

| ok | # feature supported by the architecture
|TODO| # feature not yet supported by the architecture
| .. | # feature cannot be supported by the hardware

This directory structure can be used in the future to add other
files - such as porting guides, testing description, etc.

The Documentation/features/ hierarchy may also include generic
kernel features that works on every architecture, in that case
the arch-support.txt file will list every architecture as
supported.

To list an architecture's unsupported features, just do something
like:

triton:~/tip> git grep -lE 'x86.*TODO' Documentation/features/*/*/arch-support.txt
Documentation/features/lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt
Documentation/features/time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt

which will print the list of not yet supported features.

The Documentation/features/list-arch.sh script will print the current
support matrix of one architecture:

triton:~/tip> Documentation/features/list-arch.sh
#
# Kernel feature support matrix of the 'x86' architecture:
#
core/ BPF-JIT : ok | HAVE_BPF_JIT # arch supports BPF JIT optimizations
core/ generic-idle-thread : ok | GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD # arch makes use of the generic SMP idle thread facility
core/ jump-labels : ok | HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL # arch supports live patched, high efficiency branches
core/ tracehook : ok | HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK # arch supports tracehook (ptrace) register handling APIs
debug/ gcov-profile-all : ok | ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL # arch supports whole-kernel GCOV code coverage profiling
debug/ KASAN : ok | HAVE_ARCH_KASAN # arch supports the KASAN runtime memory checker
debug/ kgdb : ok | HAVE_ARCH_KGDB # arch supports the kGDB kernel debugger
debug/ kprobes : ok | HAVE_KPROBES # arch supports live patched kernel probe
debug/ kprobes-on-ftrace : ok | HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE # arch supports combined kprobes and ftrace live patching
debug/ kretprobes : ok | HAVE_KRETPROBES # arch supports kernel function-return probes
debug/ optprobes : ok | HAVE_OPTPROBES # arch supports live patched optprobes
debug/ stackprotector : ok | HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR # arch supports compiler driven stack overflow protection
debug/ uprobes : ok | ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES # arch supports live patched user probes
debug/ user-ret-profiler : ok | HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER # arch supports user-space return from system call profiler
io/ dma-api-debug : ok | HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG # arch supports DMA debug facilities
io/ dma-contiguous : ok | HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS # arch supports the DMA CMA (continuous memory allocator)
io/ dma_map_attrs : ok | HAVE_DMA_ATTRS # arch provides dma_*map*_attrs() APIs
io/ sg-chain : ok | ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN # arch supports chained scatter-gather lists
lib/ strncasecmp : TODO | __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP # arch provides an optimized strncasecmp() function
locking/ cmpxchg-local : ok | HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL # arch supports the this_cpu_cmpxchg() API
locking/ lockdep : ok | LOCKDEP_SUPPORT # arch supports the runtime locking correctness debug facility
locking/ queued-rwlocks : ok | ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS # arch supports queued rwlocks
locking/ queued-spinlocks : ok | ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS # arch supports queued spinlocks
locking/ rwsem-optimized : ok | Optimized asm/rwsem.h # arch provides optimized rwsem APIs
perf/ kprobes-event : ok | HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API # arch supports kprobes with perf events
perf/ perf-regs : ok | HAVE_PERF_REGS # arch supports perf events register access
perf/ perf-stackdump : ok | HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP # arch supports perf events stack dumps
sched/ numa-balancing : ok | ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING # arch supports NUMA balancing
seccomp/ seccomp-filter : ok | HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER # arch supports seccomp filters
time/ arch-tick-broadcast : TODO | ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST # arch provides tick_broadcast()
time/ clockevents : ok | GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS # arch support generic clock events
time/ context-tracking : ok | HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING # arch supports context tracking for NO_HZ_FULL
time/ irq-time-acct : ok | HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING # arch supports precise IRQ time accounting
time/ modern-timekeeping : ok | !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET # arch does not use arch_gettimeoffset() anymore
time/ virt-cpuacct : ok | HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING # arch supports precise virtual CPU time accounting
vm/ ELF-ASLR : ok | ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE # arch randomizes the stack, heap and binary images of ELF binaries
vm/ huge-vmap : ok | HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP # arch supports the ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled() VM APIs
vm/ ioremap_prot : ok | HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT # arch has ioremap_prot()
vm/ numa-memblock : ok | HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP # arch supports NUMA aware memblocks
vm/ PG_uncached : ok | ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED # arch supports the PG_uncached page flag
vm/ pmdp_splitting_flush : ok | __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH # arch supports the pmdp_splitting_flush() VM API
vm/ pte_special : ok | __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL # arch supports the pte_special()/pte_mkspecial() VM APIs
vm/ THP : ok | HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE # arch supports transparent hugepages

Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>