[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 5/8] spufs: don't call spu_run_init from spu_reacquire_runnable

Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
Mon Aug 20 17:25:00 EST 2007


From: Andre Detsch <adetsch at br.ibm.com>

This patch fixes a major bug which was happening when a SPU thread
advances its execution right after being restored to a SPU. A potentially
outdated NPC value was being (re)written to the SPU.

So, spu_run_init, in this case, was either not doing anything relevant,
or breaking the execution of the SPU thread.

This fixes a common problem of losing a mailbox write when it was done
to a saved context.

Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch at br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c |    6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c
index 37928d1..1ce5e22 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/run.c
@@ -193,11 +193,7 @@ static int spu_reacquire_runnable(struct spu_context *ctx, u32 *npc,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	ret = spu_run_init(ctx, npc);
-	if (ret) {
-		spu_release(ctx);
-		return ret;
-	}
+	spuctx_switch_state(ctx, SPU_UTIL_USER);
 	return 0;
 }
 



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