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