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* [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, baseArnd Bergmann2006-01-091-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] syscall entry/exit revampDavid Woodhouse2006-01-091-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This cleanup patch speeds up the null syscall path on ppc64 by about 3%, and brings the ppc32 and ppc64 code slightly closer together. The ppc64 code was checking current_thread_info()->flags twice in the syscall exit path; once for TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A before disabling interrupts, and then again for TIF_SIGPENDING|TIF_NEED_RESCHED etc after disabling interrupts. Now we do the same as ppc32 -- check the flags only once in the fast path, and re-enable interrupts if necessary in the ptrace case. The patch abolishes the 'syscall_noerror' member of struct thread_info and replaces it with a TIF_NOERROR bit in the flags, which is handled in the slow path. This shortens the syscall entry code, which no longer needs to clear syscall_noerror. The patch adds a TIF_SAVE_NVGPRS flag which causes the syscall exit slow path to save the non-volatile GPRs into a signal frame. This removes the need for the assembly wrappers around sys_sigsuspend(), sys_rt_sigsuspend(), et al which existed solely to save those registers in advance. It also means I don't have to add new wrappers for ppoll() and pselect(), which is what I was supposed to be doing when I got distracted into this... Finally, it unifies the ppc64 and ppc32 methods of handling syscall exit directly into a signal handler (as required by sigsuspend et al) by introducing a TIF_RESTOREALL flag which causes _all_ the registers to be reloaded from the pt_regs by taking the ret_from_exception path, instead of the normal syscall exit path which stomps on the callee-saved GPRs. It appears to pass an LTP test run on ppc64, and passes basic testing on ppc32 too. Brief tests of ptrace functionality with strace and gdb also appear OK. I wouldn't send it to Linus for 2.6.15 just yet though :) Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Merge rsync://oak/kernels/iseries/work/Paul Mackerras2005-10-181-59/+57
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| * powerpc: change sys32_ to compat_sys_Stephen Rothwell2005-10-181-59/+57
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows us to get rid of one type of entry in systbl.S. In passing we remove the duplicate compat_sys_getdents and compat_sys_utimes for which there are generic versions. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
* | powerpc: Fix various compile errors with ARCH=ppc, ppc64 and powerpcPaul Mackerras2005-10-181-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | This makes ppc use the syscalls.c from arch/powerpc/kernel, exports copy_and_flush from head_32.S for use by prom_init.c (ARCH=powerpc), and consolidates the sys_fadvise64_64 implementations for 32-bit. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* powerpc: Merge syscalls.c and sys_ppc32.c.Paul Mackerras2005-10-171-3/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* powerpc: Introduce entry_{32,64}.S, misc_{32,64}.S, systbl.SPaul Mackerras2005-10-101-0/+323
The system call table has been consolidated into systbl.S. We have separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions of entry.S and misc.S since the code is mostly sufficiently different to be not worth merging. There are some common bits that will be extracted in future. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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