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[POWERPC] spufs: Add isolated-mode SPE recycling support

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When in isolated mode, SPEs have access to an area of persistent
storage, which is per-SPE. In order for isolated-mode apps to
communicate arbitrary data through this storage, we need to ensure that
isolated physical SPEs can be reused for subsequent applications.

Add a file ("recycle") in a spethread dir to enable isolated-mode
recycling. By writing to this file, the kernel will reload the
isolated-mode loader kernel, allowing a new app to be run on the same
physical SPE.

This requires the spu_acquire_exclusive function to enforce exclusive
access to the SPE while the loader is initialised.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Jeremy Kerr 2006-10-24 18:31:19 +02:00 • committed by Paul Mackerras
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