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* [POWERPC] spufs: Add infrastructure needed for gang schedulingArnd Bergmann2006-10-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the concept of a gang to spufs as a new type of object. So far, this has no impact whatsover on scheduling, but makes it possible to add that later. A new type of object in spufs is now a spu_gang. It is created with the spu_create system call with the flags argument set to SPU_CREATE_GANG (0x2). Inside of a spu_gang, it is then possible to create spu_context objects, which until now was only possible at the root of spufs. There is a new member in struct spu_context pointing to the spu_gang it belongs to, if any. The spu_gang maintains a list of spu_context structures that are its children. This information can then be used in the scheduler in the future. There is still a bug that needs to be resolved in this basic infrastructure regarding the order in which objects are removed. When the spu_gang file descriptor is closed before the spu_context descriptors, we leak the dentry and inode for the gang. Any ideas how to cleanly solve this are appreciated. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] spufs: implement error event delivery to user spaceArnd Bergmann2006-10-051-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This tries to fix spufs so we have an interface closer to what is specified in the man page for events returned in the third argument of spu_run. Fortunately, libspe has never been using the returned contents of that register, as they were the same as the return code of spu_run (duh!). Unlike the specification that we never implemented correctly, we now require a SPU_CREATE_EVENTS_ENABLED flag passed to spu_create, in order to get the new behavior. When this flag is not passed, spu_run will simply ignore the third argument now. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc: cell namespace cleanupArnd Bergmann2006-01-121-1/+3
| | | | | | | | These symbols are only used in the file that they are defined in, so they should not be in the global namespace. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix sparse warningsArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | One local variable is missing an __iomem modifier, in another place, we pass a completely unused argument with a missing __user modifier. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: check for proper file pointer in sys_spu_runArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Only checking for SPUFS_MAGIC is not reliable, because it might not be unique in theory. Worse than that, we accidentally allow spu_run to be performed on any file in spufs, not just those returned from spu_create as intended. Noticed by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: cooperative scheduler supportArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-8/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a scheduler for SPUs to make it possible to use more logical SPUs than physical ones are present in the system. Currently, there is no support for preempting a running SPU thread, they have to leave the SPU by either triggering an event on the SPU that causes it to return to the owning thread or by sending a signal to it. This patch also adds operations that enable accessing an SPU in either runnable or saved state. We use an RW semaphore to protect the state of the SPU from changing underneath us, while we are holding it readable. In order to change the state, it is acquired writeable and a context save or restore is executed before downgrading the semaphore to read-only. From: Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com>, Uli Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, baseArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-0/+106
This is the current version of the spu file system, used for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine. This release is almost identical to the version for the 2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part of the Cell BE Linux distribution from http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/. The first patch provides all the interfaces for running spu application, but does not have any support for debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these functionalities are added in the subsequent patches. See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use spufs. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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