alistair23-linux/arch/powerpc
Arnd Bergmann 6263203ed6 [POWERPC] spufs: Add infrastructure needed for gang scheduling
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>
2006-10-05 09:21:01 +10:00
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boot Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-10-04 08:16:37 -07:00
configs [POWERPC] Add MPC8360EMDS board support 2006-10-04 15:24:27 +10:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-10-04 08:16:37 -07:00
lib [POWERPC] Fix rheap alignment problem 2006-10-02 20:27:47 +10:00
math-emu [POWERPC] ppc math-emu needs -fno-builtin-fabs for math.c and fabs.c 2006-09-26 15:24:35 +10:00
mm Merge branch 'master' of git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2006-10-04 15:02:27 +10:00
oprofile fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
platforms [POWERPC] spufs: Add infrastructure needed for gang scheduling 2006-10-05 09:21:01 +10:00
sysdev Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/configh 2006-10-04 09:59:57 -07:00
xmon [POWERPC] Don't try to just continue if xmon has no input device 2006-10-04 14:52:40 +10:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-10-04 08:16:37 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [POWERPC] print backtrace when entering xmon 2006-09-13 18:39:53 +10:00
Makefile [POWERPC] Create a "wrapper" script and use it in arch/powerpc/boot 2006-09-28 14:30:02 +10:00