s390 updates for the 5.12 merge window
- Convert to using the generic entry infrastructure.
- Add vdso time namespace support.
- Switch s390 and alpha to 64-bit ino_t. As discussed here
lkml.kernel.org/r/YCV7QiyoweJwvN+m@osiris
- Get rid of expensive stck (store clock) usages where possible. Utilize
cpu alternatives to patch stckf when supported.
- Make tod_clock usage less error prone by converting it to a union and
rework code which is using it.
- Machine check handler fixes and cleanups.
- Drop couple of minor inline asm optimizations to fix clang build.
- Default configs changes notably to make libvirt happy.
- Various changes to rework and improve qdio code.
- Other small various fixes and improvements all over the code.
s390/qdio: remove 'merge_pending' mechanism
For non-QEBSM devices, get_buf_states() merges PENDING and EMPTY buffers
into a single group of finished buffers. To allow the upper-layer driver
to differentiate between the two states, qdio_check_pending() looks at
each buffer's state again and sets the sbal_state flag to
QDIO_OUTBUF_STATE_FLAG_PENDING accordingly.
So effectively we're spending overhead on _every_ Output Queue
inspection, just to avoid some additional TX completion calls in case
a group of buffers has completed with mixed EMPTY / PENDING state.
Given that PENDING buffers should rarely occur, this is a bad trade-off.
In particular so as the additional checks in get_buf_states() affect
_all_ device types (even those that don't use the PENDING state).
Rip it all out, and just report the PENDING completions separately as
we already do for QEBSM devices.
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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