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Linus Torvalds a62e68488d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-10 08:28:32 -08:00
Andrew Morton c3a9aea7aa [PATCH] spufs: fix for recent "shrink dentry_struct" patch
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>
2006-01-10 08:01:23 -08:00
Paul Mackerras 13b8a27229 powerpc: Introduce a new config symbol to control 16550 early debug code
The previous change by Kumar Gala in this area led to legacy_serial.c
and udbg_16550.c being built as modules when CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=m.
Fix this by introducing a new symbol, CONFIG_PPC_UDBG_16550, to
control whether these files get built, and arrange for it to be selected
for those platforms that need it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-10 16:19:05 +11:00
linas 0f17574a65 [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: dlpar-add crash on null pointer deref
This fixes a crash on null-pointer deref during dlpar slot addition.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 1c87c0f84943fbbc91826967ff4fea1b059a526f commit)
2006-01-10 15:32:54 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 18eb3b398d powerpc: Fix up some compile errors in the PCI error recovery code
<asm/systemcfg.h> is gone now, and the PCI error recovery constants
in include/linux/pci.h changed their names in the process of getting
accepted.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 5a2516156c591fc3d2059fbd93f97e15eb6010d6 commit)
2006-01-10 15:32:31 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 257ffc64a6 [PATCH] powerpc: get rid of per_cpu EEH counters
242-eeh-no-percpu-counters.patch

Remove per-cpu counters from the EEH code.  These statistics counters
are incremented at a very low frequency, and the performance gains of
per-cpu variables are negligable.  By contrast, the counters weren't
safe against cpu off/online operations, and its not worth the effort
to make them so (other than to turn them into plain globals).

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from be3b5d1be053ccb41e91fa5a6f43ef5db301357d commit)
2006-01-10 15:30:48 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 7684b40cb5 [PATCH] powerpc: Save device BARs much earlier in the boot sequence
241-eeh-save-bars-earlier.patch

Save the PCI device bars *before* any PCI probing is done.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 76c902b919098860f3d4e125f847abcc4cb1782a commit)
2006-01-10 15:30:39 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 3914ac7b0e [PATCH] powerpc: handle multifunction PCI devices properly
239-eeh-multifunction-consolidate.patch

New-style firmware will often place multiple different functions
under a non-EEH-aware parent.  However, these devices might share
a common PE "partition endpoint" and config address, ad thus any
EEH events will affect all of the devices in common.  This patch
makes the effort to find all of these common devices and handle
them together.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 216810296bb97d39da8e176822e9de78d2f00187 commit)
2006-01-10 15:30:23 +11:00
Linas Vepstas b6495c0c8f [PATCH] powerpc: Don't continue with PCI Error recovery if slot reset failed.
238-eeh-stop-if-reset_failed.patch

If the firmware is unable to reset the PCI slot for some reason, then
don't attempt any further recovery steps after that point.  Instead,
mark the device as permanently failed.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from e06b942521eb2cdaf232726f45a820d5837acb12 commit)
2006-01-10 15:30:14 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 21e464dd7c [PATCH] powerpc: set up the RTAS token just like the rest of them.
237-eeh-bridge-token.patch

Minor: the rtas-bridge token should be set up the same way that all
the other rtas tokens are set up.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 78379b6c5fc17b6666c40b05988e6708e98479c0 commit)
2006-01-10 15:30:05 +11:00
Linas Vepstas fcb7543e3d [PATCH] powerpc: Use PE configuration address consistently
236-eeh-config-addr.patch

The PE configuration address wasn't being cnsistently used in all locations
where a config address is called for.  This patch adds it to the places it
should have appeared in.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from c2bc904a28095aca0b04a37854b63b78622a032e commit)
2006-01-10 15:29:55 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 821b537fd7 [PATCH] powerpc: bugfix: fill in uninitialized field
235-eeh-set-pcidev-bugfix.patch

The pci device field of the pci_dn struct should be initialized to a
valid value.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from beb45c93d494a11c36e5b24f638e610db8428b54 commit)
2006-01-10 15:29:43 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 9fb40eb883 [PATCH] powerpc: Remove duplicate code
234-eeh-find-pe.patch

The find_device_pe() routine is duplicated in two files. Remove one of
the two copies, declare the other extern.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 48408e708282d4d0269136ff27ea5acbd9410b5a commit)
2006-01-10 15:29:33 +11:00
Linas Vepstas f751f84164 [PATCH] powerpc: remove bogus printk
233-eeh-buid-fix.patch

Remove un-desired warning print from EEH code.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 241239e6aff69788a177d97c5d06fe9995c74cca commit)
2006-01-10 15:29:25 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 25e591f6dd [PATCH] powerpc: Add "partitionable endpoint" support
26-eeh-partition-endpoint.patch

New versions of firmware introduce a new method by which the
"partitionable endpoint" (the point at which the pci bus is cut)
should be located.  This code adds the support for this (mandatory)
new feature.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 9fcfb5d35b5294659f9299aa9cae6fd16325c07e commit)
2006-01-10 15:29:14 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 5d5a0936b3 [PATCH] powerpc: Split out PCI address cache to its own file
25-pci-address-cache.patch

The core EEH file is rather large. This patch splits out a self-contained
chunk of it into its own file.  This is the chunk that performes the
caching and lookup of pci devices based on the i/o addresses of thier
resoures.  This code is almos architecture-independent and could be
used by any system that wanted to find a pci device based only on
the i/o address used by the device.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from b0b291d59906d4a9a89ed9e34d9fd684c7188924 commit)
2006-01-10 15:29:04 +11:00
Linas Vepstas 77bd741561 [PATCH] powerpc: PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines
Various PCI bus errors can be signaled by newer PCI controllers.  The
core error recovery routines are architecture dependent.  This patch adds
a recovery infrastructure for the  PPC64 pSeries systems.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from e8ca11b460c4c9c7fa6b529be221529ebd770e38 commit)
2006-01-10 15:28:32 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 80c0531514 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/mutex-2.6 2006-01-09 17:31:38 -08:00
Jes Sorensen 1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
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>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 943ffb587c spelling: s/retreive/retrieve/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-10 00:10:13 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 9a699aefa8 [PATCH] 4/5 powerpc: Add cpufreq support for all desktop G5
This patch adds cpufreq support for all desktop "tower" G5 models. The
only G5 models still lacking cpufreq support at this point are the
Xserve and possibly the new iMac iSight (not tested). I'll have those
added soon. That patch uses the new platform functions interpreter to
implement frequency and voltage switching on most models.

Note that in order to find the low frequency value, I had to hack
something that might now work properly on all models, so if the
frequency value reported when running low speed looks bogus to you,
please report it to me. (Appart from a bogus reported value, things
should work fine).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:19 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 5b9ca52691 [PATCH] 3/5 powerpc: Add platform functions interpreter
This is the platform function interpreter itself along with the backends
for UniN/U3/U4, mac-io, GPIOs and i2c. It adds the ability to execute
those do-platform-* scripts in the device-tree (at least for most
devices for which a backend is provided). This should replace the clock
spreading hacks properly. It might also have an impact on all sort of
machines since some of the scripts marked "at init" will now be executed
on boot (or some other on sleep/wakeup), those will possibly do things
that the kernel didn't do at all, like setting some values into some i2c
devices (changing thermal sensor calibration or conversion rate) etc...
Thus regression testing is MUCH welcome. Also loook for errors in dmesg.
That's also why I've left rather verbose debugging enabled in this
version of the patch.

(I do expect some Windtunnel G4s to show some errors as they have an i2c
clock chip on the PMU bus that uses some primitives that the i2c backend
doesn't implement yet. I really need users that have one of those
machine to come back to me so we can get that done right, though the
errors themselves should be harmless, I suspect the machine might not
run at full speed).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:18 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a28d3af2a2 [PATCH] 2/5 powerpc: Rework PowerMac i2c part 2
This is the continuation of the previous patch. This one removes the old
PowerMac i2c drivers (i2c-keywest and i2c-pmac-smu) and replaces them
both with a single stub driver that uses the new PowerMac low i2c layer.

Now that i2c-keywest is gone, the low-i2c code is extended to support
interrupt driver transfers. All i2c busses now appear as platform
devices. Compatibility with existing drivers should be maintained as the
i2c bus names have been kept identical, except for the SMU bus but in
that later case, all users has been fixed.

With that patch added, matching a device node to an i2c_adapter becomes
trivial.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:17 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 730745a5c4 [PATCH] 1/5 powerpc: Rework PowerMac i2c part 1
This is the first part of a rework of the PowerMac i2c code. It
completely reworks the "low_i2c" layer. It is now more flexible,
supports KeyWest, SMU and PMU i2c busses, and provides functions to
match device nodes to i2c busses and adapters.

This patch also extends & fix some bugs in the SMU driver related to i2c
support and removes the clock spreading hacks from the pmac feature code
rather than adapting them to the new API since they'll be replaced by
the platform function code completely in patch 3/5

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:16 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 2fb9d20636 [PATCH] spufs: set irq affinity for running threads
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:57 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 6ff730c33b [PATCH] spufs: fix sparse warnings
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:52 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann f0831acc4b [PATCH] spufs: abstract priv1 register access.
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:49 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann ce8ab85412 [PATCH] spufs: move spu_run call to its own file
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:45 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 8837d9216f [PATCH] spufs: clean up use of bitops
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:43 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 3f51dd91c8 [PATCH] spufs: fix spufs_fill_dir error path
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:42 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 346f4d3ce9 [PATCH] spufs: dont leak directories in failed spu_create
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:41 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 0106246594 [PATCH] spufs fix spu_acquire_runnable error path
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:40 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 5ef8224aaa [PATCH] spufs: serialize sys_spu_run per spu
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:39 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann e80358ad86 [PATCH] spufs: check for proper file pointer in sys_spu_run
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:38 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann c8ca0633e5 [PATCH] spufs: dont hold root->isem in spu_forget
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:37 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 762cf6dac2 [PATCH] spufs: fix locking in spu_acquire_runnable
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:35 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann c902be71dc [PATCH] cell: enable pause(0) in cpu_idle
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>
2006-01-09 15:44:32 +11:00
Haren Myneni 9da5cad61c [PATCH] powerpc: Fix search for the main interrupt controller
At present, we are not looking at all interrupt controller nodes in the
device tree even though the proper node was not found. This is causing
the system panic. The attached patch will scan all nodes until it finds
the proper interrupt controller type.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:35:01 +11:00
Kumar Gala be6b843918 [PATCH] powerpc: added a udbg_progress
Added a common udbg_progress for use by ppc_md.progress()

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:33:50 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 1beb6a7d6c [PATCH] powerpc: Experimental support for new G5 Macs (#2)
This adds some very basic support for the new machines, including the
Quad G5 (tested), and other new dual core based machines and iMac G5
iSight (untested). This is still experimental !  There is no thermal
control yet, there is no proper handing of MSIs, etc.. but it
boots, I have all 4 cores up on my machine. Compared to the previous
version of this patch, this one adds DART IOMMU support for the U4
chipset and thus should work fine on setups with more than 2Gb of RAM.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:03:17 +11:00
linas 31087d7d49 [PATCH] powerpc: export PCI fixup routine
There is code in the RPAPHP directory that is identical to this routine;
I'll be removing that code in an upcoming patch, but this patch is needed
to expose the function to make it callable.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:54:02 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt cc5d0189b9 [PATCH] powerpc: Remove device_node addrs/n_addr
The pre-parsed addrs/n_addrs fields in struct device_node are finally
gone. Remove the dodgy heuristics that did that parsing at boot and
remove the fields themselves since we now have a good replacement with
the new OF parsing code. This patch also fixes a bunch of drivers to use
the new code instead, so that at least pmac32, pseries, iseries and g5
defconfigs build.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:53:55 +11:00
David Woodhouse d52771fce4 [PATCH] powerpc/cell: disable legacy i/o area
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>
2006-01-09 14:53:27 +11:00
Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com 49d65b3ac5 [PATCH] powerpc/cell: add iommu support for larger memory
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>
2006-01-09 14:53:24 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 38307341af [PATCH] spufs: clear dsisr on CLASS1[Mf] exception
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>
2006-01-09 14:53:21 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 462c853eb5 [PATCH] spufs: fix hexdump format
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>
2006-01-09 14:53:18 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 7945a4a27d [PATCH] spufs: trivial compile fix
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>
2006-01-09 14:53:14 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 59d6d39f30 [PATCH] spufs: fix module refcount race
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>
2006-01-09 14:53:11 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 3a843d7cd3 [PATCH] spufs: fix mailbox polling
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>
2006-01-09 14:53:01 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 2a911f0bb7 [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability [part 2].
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>
2006-01-09 14:52:58 +11:00