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* [PATCH] spufs: fix context-switch decrementer codeJordi Caubet2006-04-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We found that when the 'decrementer' is saved, the PPE saves the current time 'csa->suspend_time'. When restoring the 'decrementer', (Step 34) decrementer seems to be adjusted with the number of cycles th= at a spu thread has not been running. In that code it is missing a substract ('-') because 'delta_time' is assigned a not substracted(see bellow). Acked-by: Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc/cell: compile fixesDave Jones2006-04-012-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Missing include for __NR_syscalls, and missing sys_splice() that causes build-time failure due to compile-time bounds check on spu_syscall_table. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpcKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-292-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and possibly buggy. We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the future. This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras2006-03-291-1/+1
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| * [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbersBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-03-281-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this, board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine. We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of _machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at _machine. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] spufs: fix __init/__exit annotationsArnd Bergmann2006-03-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | spufs_init and spufs_exit should be marked correctly so they can be removed when not needed. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] spufs: Fix endless protection fault on LS writes by SPE.Arnd Bergmann2006-03-271-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If an SPE attempts a DMA put to a local store after already doing a get, the kernel must update the HW PTE to allow the write access. This case was not being handled correctly. From: Mike Kistler <mkistler@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Kistler <mkistler@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] powerpc: use guarded ioremap for cell on-chip mappingsArnd Bergmann2006-03-274-16/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm not sure where the information came from, but I assumed that doing cache-inhibited mappings for mmio regions was sufficient. It seems we also need the guarded bit set, like everyone else, which is the default for ioremap. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] powerpc: fix spider-pic affinity settingArnd Bergmann2006-03-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As noticed by Milton Miller, setting the initial affinity in spider-pic can go wrong if the target node field was not orinally empty. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] spufs: initialize context correctlyDirk Herrendoerfer2006-03-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the mfc member of a new context was not initialized to zero, which potentially leads to wild memory accesses. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] spufs: enable SPE problem state MMIO access.Mark Nutter2006-03-276-12/+255
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is layered on top of CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and is patterned after direct mapping of LS. This patch allows mmap() of the following regions: "mfc", which represents the area from [0x3000 - 0x3fff]; "cntl", which represents the area from [0x4000 - 0x4fff]; "signal1" which begins at offset 0x14000; "signal2" which begins at offset 0x1c000. The signal1 & signal2 files may be mmap()'d by regular user processes. The cntl and mfc file, on the other hand, may only be accessed if the owning process has CAP_SYS_RAWIO, because they have the potential to confuse the kernel with regard to parallel access to the same files with regular file operations: the kernel always holds a spinlock when accessing registers in these areas to serialize them, which can not be guaranteed with user mmaps, Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] spufs: implement mfc access for PPE-side DMAArnd Bergmann2006-03-278-5/+430
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] spufs: allow SPU code to do syscallsArnd Bergmann2006-03-273-2/+444
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An SPU does not have a way to implement system calls itself, but it can create intercepts to the kernel. This patch uses the method defined by the JSRE interface for C99 host library calls from an SPU to implement Linux system calls. It uses the reserved SPU stop code 0x2104 for this, using the structure layout and syscall numbers for ppc64-linux. I'm still undecided wether it is better to have a list of allowed syscalls or a list of forbidden syscalls, since we can't allow an SPU to call all syscalls that are defined for ppc64-linux. This patch implements the easier choice of them, with a blacklist that only prevents an SPU from calling anything that interacts with its own execution, e.g fork, execve, clone, vfork, exit, spu_run and spu_create and everything that deals with signals. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] powerpc: work around a cell interrupt HW bugArnd Bergmann2006-03-271-1/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Apparently we have found a bug in the CPU that causes external interrupts to sometimes get disabled indefinitely. This adds a workaround for the problem. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] powerpc: cell interrupt controller updatesJens Osterkamp2006-03-273-55/+169
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current interrupt controller setup on Cell is done in a rather ad-hoc way with device tree properties that are not standardized at all. In an attempt to do something that follows the OF standard (or at least the IBM extensions to it) more closely, we have now come up with this patch. It still provides a fallback to the old behaviour when we find older firmware, that hack can not be removed until the existing customer installations have upgraded. Cc: hpenner@de.ibm.com Cc: stk@de.ibm.com Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] powerpc: fix cell iommu setupArnd Bergmann2006-03-271-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | A small bug crept in the iommu driver when we made it more generic. This patch is needed for boards that have a dma window that does not start at bus address zero. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] sem2mutex: misc static one-file mutexesIngo Molnar2006-03-261-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove set_page_count() outside mm/Nick Piggin2006-03-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | set_page_count usage outside mm/ is limited to setting the refcount to 1. Remove set_page_count from outside mm/, and replace those users with init_page_count() and set_page_refcounted(). This allows more debug checking, and tighter control on how code is allowed to play around with page->_count. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc: Fix spufs initialization sequence.Geoff Levand2006-02-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This is a small fix to get the spufs init sequence right. init_spu_base() in spu_base.c should be called (via module_init(init_spu_base)) before spufs_init() (via module_init(spufs_init)) in spufs/inode.c gets called. Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds2006-01-123-3/+5
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix up delete/modify conflict of arch/ppc/kernel/process.c by hand (it's gone, gone, gone). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] powerpc: cell namespace cleanupArnd Bergmann2006-01-123-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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] powerpc: task_thread_info()Al Viro2006-01-121-1/+1
|/ | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: Suspend/restore MFC DMA operations at SPU context switch.Geoff Levand2006-01-111-5/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The SPE Book IV indicates that MFC DMA operations must be suspended and restored on SPU context switch (in Step 8). This patch adds that operation, which is missing from the current spufs implementation. Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix for recent "shrink dentry_struct" patchAndrew Morton2006-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen2006-01-091-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] spufs: set irq affinity for running threadsArnd Bergmann2006-01-094-16/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | For far, all SPU triggered interrupts always end up on the first SMT thread, which is a bad solution. This patch implements setting the affinity to the CPU that was running last when entering execution on an SPU. This should result in a significant reduction in IPI calls and better cache locality for SPE thread specific data. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix sparse warningsArnd Bergmann2006-01-094-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | 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: abstract priv1 register access.Arnd Bergmann2006-01-095-129/+208
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a hypervisor based setup, direct access to the first priviledged register space can typically not be allowed to the kernel and has to be implemented through hypervisor calls. As suggested by Masato Noguchi, let's abstract the register access trough a number of function calls. Since there is currently no public specification of actual hypervisor calls to implement this, I only provide a place that makes it easier to hook into. Cc: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: move spu_run call to its own fileArnd Bergmann2006-01-094-153/+160
| | | | | | | | | | | | The logic for sys_spu_run keeps growing and it does not really belong into file.c any more since we moved away from using regular file operations to our own syscall. No functional change in here. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: clean up use of bitopsArnd Bergmann2006-01-094-13/+12
| | | | | | | | | | checking bits manually might not be synchonized with the use of set_bit/clear_bit. Make sure we always use the correct bitops by removing the unnecessary identifiers. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix spufs_fill_dir error pathArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-35/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | If creating one entry failed in spufs_fill_dir, we never cleaned up the freshly created entries. Fix this by calling the cleanup function on error. Noticed by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: dont leak directories in failed spu_createArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-17/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | If get_unused_fd failed in sys_spu_create, we never cleaned up the created directory. Fix that by restructuring the error path. Noticed by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs fix spu_acquire_runnable error pathArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | When spu_activate fails in spu_acquire_runnable, the state must still be SPU_STATE_SAVED, we were incorrectly setting it to SPU_STATE_RUNNABLE. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: serialize sys_spu_run per spuArnd Bergmann2006-01-093-5/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | During an earlier cleanup, we lost the serialization of multiple spu_run calls performed on the same spu_context. In order to get this back, introduce a mutex in the spu_context that is held inside of spu_run. Noticed by Al Viro. 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 Bergmann2006-01-093-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: dont hold root->isem in spu_forgetArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | spu_forget will do mmput on the DMA address space, which can lead to lots of other stuff getting triggered. We better not hold a semaphore here that we might need in the process. Noticed by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix locking in spu_acquire_runnableArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | We need to check for validity of owner under down_write, down_read is not enough. Noticed by Al Viro. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] cell: enable pause(0) in cpu_idleArnd Bergmann2006-01-094-0/+295
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch enables support for pause(0) power management state for the Cell Broadband Processor, which is import for power efficient operation. The pervasive infrastructure will in the future enable us to introduce more functionality specific to the Cell's pervasive unit. From: Maximino Aguilar <maguilar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc/cell: disable legacy i/o areaDavid Woodhouse2006-01-091-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | We currently crash in the fedora installer because the keyboard driver tries to access I/O space that is not there on our hardware. This uses the same solution as powermac by just marking all legacy i/o as invalid. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc/cell: add iommu support for larger memoryJens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com2006-01-091-49/+176
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So far, the iommu code was hardwired to a linear mapping between 0x20000000 and 0x40000000, so it could only support 512MB of RAM. This patch still keeps the linear mapping, but looks for proper ibm,dma-window properties to set up larger windows, this makes the maximum supported RAM size 2GB. If there is anything unusual about the dma-window properties, we fall back to the old behavior. We also support switching off the iommu completely now with the regular iommu=off command line option. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: clear dsisr on CLASS1[Mf] exceptionArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Because of always clearing DSISR at spu class 1 interrupt handler, kernel may lose Class1[Mf] interrupt. Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix hexdump formatArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Output from hexdump with "%08x" depends on HOST platform's endian. When building linux by cross toolchain, that difference makes errors. Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: trivial compile fixArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | One of my last patches contained a broken line from splitting out some other changes, this restores a working version. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix module refcount raceArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | One of the two users of spufs_calls.owner still has a race when calling try_module_get while the module is removed. This makes it use the correct instance of owner. Noticed by Milton Miller. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: fix mailbox pollingArnd Bergmann2006-01-096-24/+95
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability [part 2].Arnd Bergmann2006-01-093-27/+63
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch reduces lock complexity of SPU scheduler, particularly for involuntary preemptive switches. As a result the new code does a better job of mapping the highest priority tasks to SPUs. Lock complexity is reduced by using the system default workqueue to perform involuntary saves. In this way we avoid nasty lock ordering problems that the previous code had. A "minimum timeslice" for SPU contexts is also introduced. The intent here is to avoid thrashing. While the new scheduler does a better job at prioritization it still does nothing for fairness. From: Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability.Arnd Bergmann2006-01-097-121/+202
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: Turn off debugging outputArnd Bergmann2006-01-092-2/+3
| | | | | | | | spufs is rather noisy when debugging is enabled, this turns off the messages for production use. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] spufs: Fix oops when spufs module is not loadedArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | try_module_get returns true when NULL arguments, so we first need to check if there is a module loaded before getting the reference count. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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