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@ 2008-06-09 21:10 steiner
  2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 01/11] GRU Driver - hardware data structures steiner
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From: steiner @ 2008-06-09 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, linux-kernel; +Cc: mingo, tglx, holt, andrea


This series of patches adds a driver for the SGI UV GRU. The driver is still
in development but it currently compiles for both x86_64 & IA64. All simple
regression tests pass on IA64. Although features remain to be added, I'd like to
start the process of getting the driver into the kernel. Additional kernel
drivers will depend on services provide by the GRU driver.

The GRU is a hardware resource located in the system chipset. The GRU
contains memory that is mmaped into the user address space. This memory is
used to communicate with the GRU to perform functions such as load/store,
scatter/gather, bcopy, AMOs, etc.  The GRU is directly accessed by user
instructions using user virtual addresses. GRU instructions (ex., bcopy) use
user virtual addresses for operands.

The GRU contains a large TLB that is functionally very similar to processor TLBs.
Because the external contains a TLB with user virtual address, it requires
callouts from the core VM system when certain types of changes are made to
the process page tables. There are several MMUOPS patches currently being
discussed but none has been accepted into the kernel. The GRU driver 
is built using version V18 from Andrea Arcangeli.

--- jack

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2008-06-09 21:10 [patch 00/11] GRU Driver steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 01/11] GRU Driver - hardware data structures steiner
2008-06-09 22:52   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10  4:07     ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 18:57     ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 02/11] GRU Driver - GRU instructions & macros steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 03/11] GRU Driver - driver internal header files steiner
2008-06-09 21:38   ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-10 14:57     ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 04/11] GRU Driver - kernel services " steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 05/11] GRU Driver - driver initialization, file & vma ops steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 06/11] GRU Driver - page faults & exceptions steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 07/11] GRU Driver - kernel services provide by driver steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 08/11] GRU Driver - resource management steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces steiner
2008-06-09 21:32   ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-09 22:11     ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-10 14:20       ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 10/11] GRU Driver - TLB flushing, MMUOPS callouts steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 11/11] GRU Driver - makefile & Kconfig file changes steiner
2008-06-09 21:35   ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-10 14:41     ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-12 13:27 ` [patch 00/11] GRU Driver Ingo Molnar
2008-06-12 14:05   ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-12 18:03     ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-12 20:52       ` Jack Steiner

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