[POWERPC] spufs: add infrastructure for finding elf objects

This adds an 'object-id' file that the spe library can
use to store a pointer to its ELF object. This was
originally meant for use by oprofile, but is now
also used by the GNU debugger, if available.

In order for oprofile to find the location in an spu-elf
binary where an event counter triggered, we need a way
to identify the binary in the first place.

Unfortunately, that binary itself can be embedded in a
powerpc ELF binary. Since we can assume it is mapped into
the effective address space of the running process,
have that one write the pointer value into a new spufs
file.

When a context switch occurs, pass the user value to
the profiler so that can look at the mapped file (with
some care).

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

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/spu.h b/include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
index 83b6dae48efc..e73ea00efd8b 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
@@ -201,6 +201,24 @@ static inline void unregister_spu_syscalls(struct spufs_calls *calls)
 
 
 /*
+ * Notifier blocks:
+ *
+ * oprofile can get notified when a context switch is performed
+ * on an spe. The notifer function that gets called is passed
+ * a pointer to the SPU structure as well as the object-id that
+ * identifies the binary running on that SPU now.
+ *
+ * For a context save, the object-id that is passed is zero,
+ * identifying that the kernel will run from that moment on.
+ *
+ * For a context restore, the object-id is the value written
+ * to object-id spufs file from user space and the notifer
+ * function can assume that spu->ctx is valid.
+ */
+int spu_switch_event_register(struct notifier_block * n);
+int spu_switch_event_unregister(struct notifier_block * n);
+
+/*
  * This defines the Local Store, Problem Area and Privlege Area of an SPU.
  */