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Jack Steiner 28bffaf094 GRU Driver: kernel services provide by driver
This file contains functions for handling services provided to other
kernel modules that use the GRU.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:48 -07:00
Jack Steiner 142586409c GRU Driver: page faults & exceptions
This file contains the functions that manage GRU page faults and
exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:48 -07:00
Jack Steiner 78cf1de49b GRU Driver: driver initialization, file & vma ops
This file contains the functions for initializing the driver, handling
file & vma operations and for processing IOCTL requests from the user.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00
Jack Steiner b2fb06fcb6 GRU Driver: kernel services header files
This patch contains the header file used to export GRU services to other
kernel drivers such as XPMEM or XPNET.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00
Jack Steiner 13d19498b0 GRU Driver: driver internal header files
This patch contains header files internal to the GRU driver.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00
Jack Steiner 4c921d4d8a GRU Driver: GRU instructions & macros
This patchs contains macros & inline functions used to issue instructions
to the GRU.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00
Jack Steiner 34d8a380d7 GRU Driver: hardware data structures
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.

This patch:

Contains the definitions of the hardware GRU data structures that are used
by the driver to manage the GRU.

[akpm@linux-foundation;org: export hpage_shift]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00