[patch 01/18] Cell: Add spu shutdown method

André Detsch adetsch at br.ibm.com
Thu Jun 7 00:41:45 EST 2007


Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 19:59 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Add a shutdown method to spu_sysdev_class to allow proper spu resource
>> cleanup on system shutdown.  This is needed to support kexec on the PS3
>> platform.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> André, does this interact with your kexec work at all?

No. My cell kexec patch is actually crash-specific, activated under 
default_machine_crash_shutdown. Geoff's ps3 kexec patches do not seem to 
affect this code path.

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Andre Detsch



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