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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-27 23:17:15 +0200 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-05-05 09:22:24 -0600 |
commit | 299cd2747c61009f32943217c79f3c89728eb2ac (patch) | |
tree | 773b9df0de89a3183a8ea4da82e6485447e8d56f /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | dc3f043ff0e44862a237d87f37ca04694d884049 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.txt) | 59 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst index 39553c6ebefd..939cf59a7d9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst @@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ SPU Filesystem .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + spufs spu_create diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst index caf36aaae804..8a42859bb100 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst @@ -1,12 +1,18 @@ -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, @@ -206,8 +206,7 @@ FILES 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) |