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2012-05-24drm/nv50/fifo: use hardware channel kickoff functionalityBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nv50/gr: make sure NEXT_TO_CURRENT is executed even if nothing doneBen Skeggs
PFIFO channel kickoff will hang sometimes otherwise. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nv50/fifo: construct playlist from hw context table stateBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/fifo: remove all the "special" engine hooksBen Skeggs
All the places this stuff is actually needed tends to be chipset-specific anyway, so we're able to just inline the register bashing instead. The parts of the common code that still directly touch PFIFO temporarily have conditionals, these will be removed in subsequent commits that will refactor the fifo modules into engine modules like graph/mpeg etc. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/fence: fix a race where fence->channel can disappearBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/bios: fix some shadowing issues, particularly acpiBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau: fix engine context destructor orderingBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/fence: convert to exec engine, and improve channel syncBen Skeggs
Now have a somewhat simpler semaphore sync implementation for nv17:nv84, and a switched to using semaphores as fences on nv84+ and making use of the hardware's >= acquire operation. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/fence: minor api changes for an upcoming reworkBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/fence: make ttm interfaces wrap ours, not the other way aroundBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau: move flip-related channel setup to software engineBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau: create real execution engine for software object classBen Skeggs
Just a cleanup more or less, and to remove the need for special handling of software objects. This removes a heap of documentation on dma/graph object formats. The info is very out of date with our current understanding, and is far better documented in rnndb in envytools git. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nvd0/disp: remove unnecessary sync from flip_nextBen Skeggs
This shouldn't be necessary, I believe this is just a bit of missed debug code that got left over somehow. Causes flips to be always synced to vblank, regardless of swap interval, which we don't want.. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nv04/disp: disable vblank interrupts when disabling displayBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau: base fence timeout on time of emissionMarcin Slusarz
Wait loop can be interrupted by signal, so if signals are raised periodically (e.g. SIGALRM) this loop may never finish. Use emission time as a base for fence timeout. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nv40-50/gr: restructure grctx/prog generationBen Skeggs
The conditional definition of the generation helper functions apparently confuses some IDEs.... Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nv50/disp: fixup error paths in crtc object creationBen Skeggs
Reported-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau: cleanup after display init failureMarcin Slusarz
Depending on exact point of failure, not cleaning would lead to BUG_ONs/oopses in various distant places. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nv50: fix ramin heap size for kernel channel tooMarcin Slusarz
Port change from "drm/nouveau: Keep RAMIN heap within the channel" to kernel channel, which has its own ramin heap initialisation. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Younes Manton <younes.m@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nve0/graph: bump hub2gpc buffer sizeBen Skeggs
Reported-by: Christoph Bumiller <e0425955@student.tuwien.ac.at> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau: use the same packet header macros as userspaceBen Skeggs
Cosmetic cleanup only. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/bios: allow loading alternate vbios image as firmwareBen Skeggs
Useful for debugging different VBIOS versions. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nve0/ttm: implement buffer moves with weirdo pcopy-on-pgraph methodsBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nv50-/fbcon: move 2d class to subchannel 3Ben Skeggs
Kepler GRAPH has (well, sorta) fixed subchannel<->class assignments, make this match up to keep it happy without trapping. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nve0/gr: initial implementationBen Skeggs
This may, perhaps, get re-merged with nvc0_graph.c at some point. It's still unclear as to how great an idea that'd be. Stay tuned... Completely dependent on firmware blobs from NVIDIA binary driver currently. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nve0/fifo: initial implementationBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau: give a slightly larger pci(e)gart aperture on all chipsetsBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nouveau/pm: some more delays for ddr3 reclockingBen Skeggs
These numbers from the binary driver's daemon scripts, and fix the transition to perflvl 3 on my T510. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nvc0/pm: very initial mclk freq changeBen Skeggs
Loads of magic missing, this will probably blow up if you try it. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nvd9/pm: oops, fix timing calcBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nvc0/pm: enable mpll src pll, and calc mpll coefficientsBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nvc0/pm: start filling in memory reclocking stubsBen Skeggs
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: another few magic regs, and slightly better 0x004018 handlingBen Skeggs
Not entirely convinced 0x004018 transitions are correct yet, but, it's an improvement. The 750MHz value comes from fiddling with the binary driver + coolbits on two different DDR3 NVA8 chipsets (T510 NVS3100M, and NVS300), not a clue where this number comes from. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: initial attempt at handling 111100/111104Ben Skeggs
Probably not quite right, but this is enough now to make NVS300 reclock between all 3 of its perflvls correctly. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: make pll->pll mode workBen Skeggs
This probably wants a cleanup, but I'm holding off until I know for sure how the rest of the things that need doing fit together. Tested on NVS300 by hacking up perflvl 1 to require PLL mode, and switching between perflvl 3 and 1. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: attempt to bash a few 0x100200 bits correctlyBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: begin to restructure memory clock changes + another magicBen Skeggs
The binary driver appears to do various bits and pieces of the memory clock frequency change at different times, depending on the particular transition that's occuring. I've attempted to replicate this here for div->pll, pll->div and div->div transitions. With some additional (patches upcoming) magic regs being bashed, this allows me to correctly transition between all 3 perflvls on NVS300. pll->pll transitions will *not* work correctly at the moment, pending me tricking the binary driver into doing one and seeing how to correctly handle it. This patch also handles (hopefully) 0x1110e0, which appears to need changing depending on whether in PLL or divider mode.. Maybe. We'll see. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: more random unknown PFB regsBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: initial attempt at more magic PFB regsBen Skeggs
The reg calculation may get moved elsewhere at some point, but lets figure out what exactly we need to do first. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: hook up to ram reclocking helperBen Skeggs
This gets us a start on memory timings. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24drm/nva3/pm: introduce more paranoiaBen Skeggs
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
2012-05-24tcp: take care of overlaps in tcp_try_coalesce()Eric Dumazet
Sergio Correia reported following warning : WARNING: at net/ipv4/tcp.c:1301 tcp_cleanup_rbuf+0x4f/0x110() WARN(skb && !before(tp->copied_seq, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq), "cleanup rbuf bug: copied %X seq %X rcvnxt %X\n", tp->copied_seq, TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq, tp->rcv_nxt); It appears TCP coalescing, and more specifically commit b081f85c297 (net: implement tcp coalescing in tcp_queue_rcv()) should take care of possible segment overlaps in receive queue. This was properly done in the case of out_or_order_queue by the caller. For example, segment at tail of queue have sequence 1000-2000, and we add a segment with sequence 1500-2500. This can happen in case of retransmits. In this case, just don't do the coalescing. Reported-by: Sergio Correia <lists@uece.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Sergio Correia <lists@uece.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-24ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info and ip_route_output_slowYanmin Zhang
We hit a kernel OOPS. <3>[23898.789643] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /data/buildbot/workdir/ics/hardware/intel/linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1103 <3>[23898.862215] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 10526, name: Thread-6683 <4>[23898.967805] HSU serial 0000:00:05.1: 0000:00:05.2:HSU serial prevented me to suspend... <4>[23899.258526] Pid: 10526, comm: Thread-6683 Tainted: G W 3.0.8-137685-ge7742f9 #1 <4>[23899.357404] HSU serial 0000:00:05.1: 0000:00:05.2:HSU serial prevented me to suspend... <4>[23899.904225] Call Trace: <4>[23899.989209] [<c1227f50>] ? pgtable_bad+0x130/0x130 <4>[23900.000416] [<c1238c2a>] __might_sleep+0x10a/0x110 <4>[23900.007357] [<c1228021>] do_page_fault+0xd1/0x3c0 <4>[23900.013764] [<c18e9ba9>] ? restore_all+0xf/0xf <4>[23900.024024] [<c17c007b>] ? napi_complete+0x8b/0x690 <4>[23900.029297] [<c1227f50>] ? pgtable_bad+0x130/0x130 <4>[23900.123739] [<c1227f50>] ? pgtable_bad+0x130/0x130 <4>[23900.128955] [<c18ea0c3>] error_code+0x5f/0x64 <4>[23900.133466] [<c1227f50>] ? pgtable_bad+0x130/0x130 <4>[23900.138450] [<c17f6298>] ? __ip_route_output_key+0x698/0x7c0 <4>[23900.144312] [<c17f5f8d>] ? __ip_route_output_key+0x38d/0x7c0 <4>[23900.150730] [<c17f63df>] ip_route_output_flow+0x1f/0x60 <4>[23900.156261] [<c181de58>] ip4_datagram_connect+0x188/0x2b0 <4>[23900.161960] [<c18e981f>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1f/0x30 <4>[23900.167834] [<c18298d6>] inet_dgram_connect+0x36/0x80 <4>[23900.173224] [<c14f9e88>] ? _copy_from_user+0x48/0x140 <4>[23900.178817] [<c17ab9da>] sys_connect+0x9a/0xd0 <4>[23900.183538] [<c132e93c>] ? alloc_file+0xdc/0x240 <4>[23900.189111] [<c123925d>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x3d/0x50 Function free_fib_info resets nexthop_nh->nh_dev to NULL before releasing fi. Other cpu might be accessing fi. Fixing it by delaying the releasing. With the patch, we ran MTBF testing on Android mobile for 12 hours and didn't trigger the issue. Thank Eric for very detailed review/checking the issue. Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kun Jiang <kunx.jiang@intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-24mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hashTim Bird
UDP stack needs a minimum hash size value for proper operation and also uses alloc_large_system_hash() for proper NUMA distribution of its hash tables and automatic sizing depending on available system memory. On some low memory situations, udp_table_init() must ignore the alloc_large_system_hash() result and reallocs a bigger memory area. As we cannot easily free old hash table, we leak it and kmemleak can issue a warning. This patch adds a low limit parameter to alloc_large_system_hash() to solve this problem. We then specify UDP_HTABLE_SIZE_MIN for UDP/UDPLite hash table allocation. Reported-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com> Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-23sparc: Optimize strncpy_from_user() zero byte search.David S. Miller
Compute a mask that will only have 0x80 in the bytes which had a zero in them. The formula is: ~(((x & 0x7f7f7f7f) + 0x7f7f7f7f) | x | 0x7f7f7f7f) In the inner word iteration, we have to compute the "x | 0x7f7f7f7f" part, so we can reuse that in the above calculation. Once we have this mask, we perform divide and conquer to find the highest 0x80 location. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull first series of signal handling cleanups from Al Viro: "This is just the first part of the queue (about a half of it); assorted fixes all over the place in signal handling. This one ends with all sigsuspend() implementations switched to generic one (->saved_sigmask-based). With this, a bunch of assorted old buglets are fixed and most of the missing bits of NOTIFY_RESUME hookup are in place. Two more fixes sit in arm and um trees respectively, and there's a couple of broken ones that need obvious fixes - parisc and avr32 check TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME only on one of two codepaths; fixes for that will happen in the next series" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (55 commits) unicore32: if there's no handler we need to restore sigmask, syscall or no syscall xtensa: add handling of TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME microblaze: drop 'oldset' argument of do_notify_resume() microblaze: handle TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME score: add handling of NOTIFY_RESUME to do_notify_resume() m68k: add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and handle it. sparc: kill ancient comment in sparc_sigaction() h8300: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values frv: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values cris: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values powerpc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values sh: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values sparc: missing checks of __get_user()/__put_user() return values avr32: struct old_sigaction is never used m32r: struct old_sigaction is never used xtensa: xtensa_sigaction doesn't exist alpha: tidy signal delivery up score: don't open-code force_sigsegv() cris: don't open-code force_sigsegv() blackfin: don't open-code force_sigsegv() ...
2012-05-23mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkagesMel Gorman
Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following bug error with slab debugging enabled ============================================================================= BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445 kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0 mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 sys_mbind+0x142/0x620 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260 __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 remove_vma+0x68/0x90 exit_mmap+0x118/0x140 mmput+0x73/0x110 exit_mm+0x108/0x130 do_exit+0x162/0xb90 do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0 sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x (null) flags=0x20000000004080 INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0 This implied a reference counting bug and the problem happened during mbind(). mbind() applies a new memory policy to a range and uses mbind_range() to merge existing VMAs or split them as necessary. In the event of splits, mpol_dup() will allocate a new struct mempolicy and maintain existing reference counts whose rules are documented in Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt . The problem occurs with shared memory policies. The vm_op->set_policy increments the reference count if necessary and split_vma() and vma_merge() have already handled the existing reference counts. However, policy_vma() screws it up by replacing an existing vma->vm_policy with one that potentially has the wrong reference count leading to a premature free. This patch removes the damage caused by policy_vma(). With this patch applied Dave's trinity tool runs an mbind test for 5 minutes without error. /proc/slabinfo reported that there are no numa_policy or shared_policy_node objects allocated after the test completed and the shared memory region was deleted. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman: "This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete implementation. Highlights: - Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe. - Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe. - All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared uids remains the same. - With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or better than it is today. - For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or operationally with the user namespace enabled. - The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1 billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to 164ns per stat operation). - (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value. Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause entertaining failures in userspace. - If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails. I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and handle the case where setuid fails. - If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we can't map. - Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities. My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1." Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits) userns: Silence silly gcc warning. cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids. userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate. userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces. userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace. userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs ...
2012-05-23Merge tag 'module-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus Pull module patches from Rusty Russell, who really sells them: "Three trivial patches of no real utility. Modules are boring." But to make things slightly more exciting, he adds: "Fortunately David Howells is looking to change this, with his module signing patchset. But that's for next merge window... Cheers, Rusty." * tag 'module-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: Guard check in module loader against integer overflow modpost: use proper kernel style for autogenerated files modpost: Stop grab_file() from leaking filedescriptors if fstat() fails
2012-05-23Merge branch 'delete-mca' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker: "It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but realistically, nobody is using them anymore. They were mostly limited to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than 64MB of RAM. Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware. So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA. There is no point carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it; wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git grep'ping over it, and so on." Let's see if anybody screams. It generally has compiled, and James Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines. So in *theory* there may be users out there. But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't argue for keeping MCA support either. So we could bring it back. But somebody had better speak up and talk about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern kernels for us to do that. And David already took the patch to delete all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61ad3: "drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA"). * 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support. arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA