1. 24 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] spufs: make spu page faults not block scheduling · 57dace23
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      Until now, we have always entered the spu page fault handler
      with a mutex for the spu context held. This has multiple
      bad side-effects:
      - it becomes impossible to suspend the context during
        page faults
      - if an spu program attempts to access its own mmio
        areas through DMA, we get an immediate livelock when
        the nopage function tries to acquire the same mutex
      
      This patch makes the page fault logic operate on a
      struct spu_context instead of a struct spu, and moves it
      from spu_base.c to a new file fault.c inside of spufs.
      
      We now also need to copy the dar and dsisr contents
      of the last fault into the saved context to have it
      accessible in case we schedule out the context before
      activating the page fault handler.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
      57dace23
  2. 04 12月, 2006 3 次提交
  3. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  4. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] spufs: implement mfc access for PPE-side DMA · a33a7d73
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      This patch adds a new file called 'mfc' to each spufs directory.
      The file accepts DMA commands that are a subset of what would
      be legal DMA commands for problem state register access. Upon
      reading the file, a bitmask is returned with the completed
      tag groups set.
      
      The file is meant to be used from an abstraction in libspe
      that is added by a different patch.
      
      From the kernel perspective, this means a process can now
      offload a memory copy from or into an SPE local store
      without having to run code on the SPE itself.
      
      The transfer will only be performed while the SPE is owned
      by one thread that is waiting in the spu_run system call
      and the data will be transferred into that thread's
      address space, independent of which thread started the
      transfer.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a33a7d73
  5. 09 1月, 2006 3 次提交
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      [PATCH] spufs: fix mailbox polling · 3a843d7c
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      Handling mailbox interrupts was broken in multiple respects,
      the combination of which was hiding the bugs most of the time.
      
      - The ibox interrupt mask was open initially even though there
        are no waiters on a newly created SPU.
      
      - Acknowledging the mailbox interrupt did not work because
        it is level triggered and the mailbox data is never retrieved
        from inside the interrupt handler.
      
      - The interrupt handler delivered interrupts with a disabled
        mask if another interrupt is triggered for the same class
        but a different mask.
      
      - The poll function did not enable the interrupt if it had not
        been enabled, so we might run into the poll timeout if none of
        the other bugs saved us and no signal was delivered.
      
      We probably still have a similar problem with blocking
      read/write on mailbox files, but that will result in extra
      wakeup in the worst case, not in incorrect behaviour.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      3a843d7c
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      [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability. · 5110459f
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      This patch makes it easier to preempt an SPU context by
      having the scheduler hold ctx->state_sema for much shorter
      periods of time.
      
      As part of this restructuring, the control logic for the "run"
      operation is moved from arch/ppc64/kernel/spu_base.c to
      fs/spufs/file.c.  Of course the base retains "bottom half"
      handlers for class{0,1} irqs.  The new run loop will re-acquire
      an SPU if preempted.
      
      From: Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      5110459f
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      [PATCH] spufs: cooperative scheduler support · 8b3d6663
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      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: NArnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      8b3d6663