Commit 299cd274 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spufs.txt to ReST

This file is at groff output format. Manually convert it to
ReST format, trying to preserve a similar output after parsed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9ca05fad12390931bc7da0fa2502d1a450a4b87f.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent dc3f043f
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
spufs
spu_create
SPUFS(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SPUFS(2)
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
=====
spufs
=====
Name
====
NAME
spufs - the SPU file system
DESCRIPTION
Description
===========
The SPU file system is used on PowerPC machines that implement the Cell
Broadband Engine Architecture in order to access Synergistic Processor
Units (SPUs).
......@@ -21,7 +27,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
ally add or remove files.
MOUNT OPTIONS
Mount Options
=============
uid=<uid>
set the user owning the mount point, the default is 0 (root).
......@@ -29,7 +37,9 @@ MOUNT OPTIONS
set the group owning the mount point, the default is 0 (root).
FILES
Files
=====
The files in spufs mostly follow the standard behavior for regular sys-
tem calls like read(2) or write(2), but often support only a subset of
the operations supported on regular file systems. This list details the
......@@ -125,14 +135,12 @@ FILES
space is available for writing.
/mbox_stat
/ibox_stat
/wbox_stat
/mbox_stat, /ibox_stat, /wbox_stat
Read-only files that contain the length of the current queue, i.e. how
many words can be read from mbox or ibox or how many words can be
written to wbox without blocking. The files can be read only in 4-byte
units and return a big-endian binary integer number. The possible
operations on an open *box_stat file are:
operations on an open ``*box_stat`` file are:
read(2)
If a count smaller than four is requested, read returns -1 and
......@@ -143,12 +151,7 @@ FILES
in EAGAIN.
/npc
/decr
/decr_status
/spu_tag_mask
/event_mask
/srr0
/npc, /decr, /decr_status, /spu_tag_mask, /event_mask, /srr0
Internal registers of the SPU. The representation is an ASCII string
with the numeric value of the next instruction to be executed. These
can be used in read/write mode for debugging, but normal operation of
......@@ -157,17 +160,14 @@ FILES
The contents of these files are:
=================== ===================================
npc Next Program Counter
decr SPU Decrementer
decr_status Decrementer Status
spu_tag_mask MFC tag mask for SPU DMA
event_mask Event mask for SPU interrupts
srr0 Interrupt Return address register
=================== ===================================
The possible operations on an open npc, decr, decr_status,
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from the data buffer, updating the value of the fpcr register.
/signal1
/signal2
/signal1, /signal2
The two signal notification channels of an SPU. These are read-write
files that operate on a 32 bit word. Writing to one of these files
triggers an interrupt on the SPU. The value written to the signal
......@@ -233,8 +232,7 @@ FILES
file.
/signal1_type
/signal2_type
/signal1_type, /signal2_type
These two files change the behavior of the signal1 and signal2 notifi-
cation files. The contain a numerical ASCII string which is read as
either "1" or "0". In mode 0 (overwrite), the hardware replaces the
......@@ -259,18 +257,17 @@ FILES
the previous setting.
EXAMPLES
Examples
========
/etc/fstab entry
none /spu spufs gid=spu 0 0
AUTHORS
Authors
=======
Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>, Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com>,
Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
SEE ALSO
See Also
========
capabilities(7), close(2), spu_create(2), spu_run(2), spufs(7)
Linux 2005-09-28 SPUFS(2)
......@@ -15882,7 +15882,7 @@ M: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
L: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
S: Supported
W: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
F: Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
F: Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst
F: arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/
SQUASHFS FILE SYSTEM
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