[PATCH 00/13] spufs fixes and cleanups

[Arnd Bergmann]

Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 21:19 schrieb Geoff Levand:
> I didn't see the fix I sent you (also below) to stop
> DMA at spu context save in your latest patches.  You
> mentioned that Mark may cover that fix in his
> preemptive scheduler work.  Did he put it in a
> routine called earlier?  Please let me know.

The preemptive scheduler is merged into mainline now and evidently did
not fix this bug. I think I confused it with some other problem that is now
fixed, thanks for reminding me.

Paul, please apply this.

> spufs: stop dma at context save.
>
> There is no code to suspend dma queue on context save.
> SPE Book4 shows that context save's step8 is required to suspend dma
> and save MFC_CNTL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi at jp.sony.com>
> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff.levand at am.sony.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb at de.ibm.com>