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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, HyeonSeung Jang <hs8848.jang@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/14] spufs: fix context switch during page fault
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:26:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004161458.745590000@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20061004152610.151599000@dyn-9-152-242-103.boeblingen.de.ibm.com

From: HyeonSeung Jang <hs8848.jang@samsung.com>

For better explanation, I break down the page fault handling into steps:

1) There is a page fault caused by DMA operation initiated by SPU and
DMA is suspended.

2) The interrupt handler 'spu_irq_class_1()/__spu_trap_data_map()' is
called and it just wakes up the sleeping spe-manager thread.

3) by PPE scheduler, the corresponding bottom half,
spu_irq_class_1_bottom() is called in process context and DMA is
restarted.

There can be a quite large time gap between 2) and 3) and I found
the following problem:

Between 2) and 3) If the context becomes unbound, 3) is not executed
because when the spe-manager thread is awaken, the context is already
saved. (This situation can happen, for example, when a high priority spe
thread newly started in that time gap)

But the actual problem is that the corresponding SPU context does not
work even if it is bound again to a SPU.

Besides I can see the following warning in mambo simulator when the
context becomes
unbound(in save_mfc_cmd()), i.e. when unbind() is called for the
context after step 2) before 3) :

'WARNING: 61392752237: SPE2: MFC_CMD_QUEUE channel count of 15 is
inconsistent with number of available DMA queue entries of 16'

After I go through available documents, I found that the problem is
because the suspended DMA is not restarted when it is bound again.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>

Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/switch.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/switch.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/switch.c
@@ -1779,6 +1779,15 @@ static inline void restore_mfc_cntl(stru
 	 */
 	out_be64(&priv2->mfc_control_RW, csa->priv2.mfc_control_RW);
 	eieio();
+	/*
+	 * FIXME: this is to restart a DMA that we were processing
+	 *        before the save. better remember the fault information
+	 *        in the csa instead.
+	 */
+	if ((csa->priv2.mfc_control_RW & MFC_CNTL_SUSPEND_DMA_QUEUE_MASK)) {
+		out_be64(&priv2->mfc_control_RW, MFC_CNTL_RESTART_DMA_COMMAND);
+		eieio();
+	}
 }
 
 static inline void enable_user_access(struct spu_state *csa, struct spu *spu)

--

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-04 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-04 15:26 [PATCH 00/14] spufs/cell updates for 2.6.19 Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 01/14] spufs: cell spu problem state mapping updates Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 02/14] spufs: scheduler support for NUMA Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 04/14] spufs: implement error event delivery to user space Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 05/14] spufs: Add infrastructure needed for gang scheduling Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 06/14] spufs: use correct pg_prot for mapping spu LS Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 07/14] spufs: make mailbox functions handle multiple elements Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 08/14] spufs: remove support for ancient firmware Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 09/14] spufs: add support for read/write on cntl Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 10/14] spufs: support new OF device tree format Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 11/14] spufs: add infrastructure for finding elf objects Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 12/14] powerpc: update cell_defconfig Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 13/14] spiderpic: enable new style devtree support Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-04 15:26 ` [PATCH 14/14] cell: fix bugs found by sparse Arnd Bergmann

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