[PATCH] spufs: cooperative scheduler support

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: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/spu_csa.h b/include/asm-powerpc/spu_csa.h
index 989a0688144e..2a8af416638f 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/spu_csa.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/spu_csa.h
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ struct spu_state {
         unsigned long suspend_time;
         u64 slb_esid_RW[8];
         u64 slb_vsid_RW[8];
+        spinlock_t register_lock;
 };
 
 extern void spu_init_csa(struct spu_state *csa);