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author | Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com> | 2006-03-23 00:00:12 +0100 |
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committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2006-03-27 14:48:28 +1100 |
commit | 6df10a82f8de89c66eb91c371d62d76e87b2cbba (patch) | |
tree | e8615f4c00a44f4e4a609d59c51e958f0300526b /Documentation/driver-model/device.txt | |
parent | a33a7d7309d79656bc19a0e96fc4547a1633283e (diff) |
[PATCH] spufs: enable SPE problem state MMIO access.
This patch is layered on top of CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
and is patterned after direct mapping of LS.
This patch allows mmap() of the following regions:
"mfc", which represents the area from [0x3000 - 0x3fff];
"cntl", which represents the area from [0x4000 - 0x4fff];
"signal1" which begins at offset 0x14000; "signal2" which
begins at offset 0x1c000.
The signal1 & signal2 files may be mmap()'d by regular user
processes. The cntl and mfc file, on the other hand, may
only be accessed if the owning process has CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
because they have the potential to confuse the kernel
with regard to parallel access to the same files with
regular file operations: the kernel always holds a spinlock
when accessing registers in these areas to serialize them,
which can not be guaranteed with user mmaps,
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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