[Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 0/2] powerpc/spufs: allow access to scheduled-out NOSCHED contexts

Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
Sat Aug 2 13:31:48 EST 2008


Asayama-san,

> Even with these changes, regular SPE programs with NOSCHED don't work
> correctly because spu_create ignores the parameter 'npc' for all
> NOSCHED contexts and execution always starts at 0x0. Is it expected
> behavior? Or should be fixed?

That's most likely a carry-over from isolated mode, and should be fixed. 
I'm planning to revise the patch set, and I'll include such a change in 
the next series.

... and write a NOSCHED test case that doesn't have the entry point at 
0x0, too :)

Thanks for pointing that out.

Cheers,


Jeremy





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