[Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC] spufs: DMA Restart after SIGSEGV

André Detsch adetsch at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Dec 19 04:45:34 EST 2007


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 10 December 2007, Andre Detsch wrote:
>> Although the restart_dma function is called before the application's
>> signal handler, the operation is not actually performed at this time,
>> since the spu context is already stopped. The operation only takes
>> place when spu_run is restarted (which happens automatically).
> 
> Just to be sure, do you know if this also is true on the PS3 where we
> cannot use the master control bit to stop the SPU?

I can't test it here yet :(

Hopefully, I'll have a PS3 soon. In the mean time, if someone can test 
it, I would be grateful.

--
Andre Detsch



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