Name
spu_create — create a new spu context
Synopsis
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/spu.h>
int
spu_create( |
const char *pathname, |
| int flags, | |
mode_t mode); |
int
spu_create( |
const char *pathname, |
| int flags, | |
| mode_t mode, | |
int neighbor_fd); |
![[Note]](../stylesheet/note.png) |
Note |
|---|---|
| There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES. |
DESCRIPTION
The spu_create() system call
is used on PowerPC machines that implement the Cell Broadband
Engine Architecture in order to access Synergistic Processor
Units (SPUs). It creates a new logical context for an SPU in
pathname and returns
a file descriptor associated with it. pathname must refer to a
nonexistent directory in the mount point of the SPU
filesystem (spufs). If
spu_create() is successful, a
directory is created at pathname and it is populated
with the files described in spufs(7).
When a context is created, the returned file descriptor
can only be passed to spu_run(2), used as the
dirfd argument to
the *at family of
system calls (e.g., openat(2)), or closed;
other operations are not defined. A logical SPU context is
destroyed (along with all files created within the context's
pathname directory)
once the last reference to the context has gone; this usually
occurs when the file descriptor returned by spu_create() is closed.
The flags argument
can be zero or any bitwise OR-ed combination of the following
constants:
SPU_CREATE_EVENTS_ENABLED-
Rather than using signals for reporting DMA errors, use the
eventargument to spu_run(2). SPU_CREATE_GANG-
Create an SPU gang instead of a context. (A gang is a group of SPU contexts that are functionally related to each other and which share common scheduling parameters—priority and policy. In the future, gang scheduling may be implemented causing the group to be switched in and out as a single unit.)
A new directory will be created at the location specified by the
pathnameargument. This gang may be used to hold other SPU contexts, by providing a pathname that is within the gang directory to further calls tospu_create(). SPU_CREATE_NOSCHED-
Create a context that is not affected by the SPU scheduler. Once the context is run, it will not be scheduled out until it is destroyed by the creating process.
Because the context cannot be removed from the SPU, some functionality is disabled for
SPU_CREATE_NOSCHEDcontexts. Only a subset of the files will be available in this context directory inspufs. Additionally,SPU_CREATE_NOSCHEDcontexts cannot dump a core file when crashing.Creating
SPU_CREATE_NOSCHEDcontexts requires theCAP_SYS_NICEcapability. SPU_CREATE_ISOLATE-
Create an isolated SPU context. Isolated contexts are protected from some PPE (PowerPC Processing Element) operations, such as access to the SPU local store and the NPC register.
Creating
SPU_CREATE_ISOLATEcontexts also requires theSPU_CREATE_NOSCHEDflag. SPU_CREATE_AFFINITY_SPU-
Create a context with affinity to another SPU context. This affinity information is used within the SPU scheduling algorithm. Using this flag requires that a file descriptor referring to the other SPU context be passed in the
neighbor_fdargument. SPU_CREATE_AFFINITY_MEM-
Create a context with affinity to system memory. This affinity information is used within the SPU scheduling algorithm.
The mode argument
(minus any bits set in the process's umask(2)) specifies the
permissions used for creating the new directory in
spufs. See stat(2) for a full list of
the possible mode
values.
RETURN VALUE
On success, spu_create()
returns a new file descriptor. On error, −1 is
returned, and errno is set to
one of the error codes listed below.
ERRORS
- EACCES
-
The current user does not have write access to the spufs(7) mount point.
- EEXIST
-
An SPU context already exists at the given path name.
- EFAULT
-
pathnameis not a valid string pointer in the calling process's address space. - EINVAL
-
pathnameis not a directory in the spufs(7) mount point, or invalid flags have been provided. - ELOOP
-
Too many symbolic links were found while resolving
pathname. - EMFILE
-
The process has reached its maximum open files limit.
- ENAMETOOLONG
-
pathnameis too long. - ENFILE
-
The system has reached the global open files limit.
- ENODEV
-
An isolated context was requested, but the hardware does not support SPU isolation.
- ENOENT
-
Part of
pathnamecould not be resolved. - ENOMEM
-
The kernel could not allocate all resources required.
- ENOSPC
-
There are not enough SPU resources available to create a new context or the user-specific limit for the number of SPU contexts has been reached.
- ENOSYS
-
The functionality is not provided by the current system, because either the hardware does not provide SPUs or the spufs module is not loaded.
- ENOTDIR
-
A part of
pathnameis not a directory. - EPERM
-
The
SPU_CREATE_NOSCHEDflag has been given, but the user does not have theCAP_SYS_NICEcapability.
FILES
pathname must
point to a location beneath the mount point of spufs. By convention, it gets mounted in
/spu.
CONFORMING TO
This call is Linux-specific and implemented only on the PowerPC architecture. Programs using this system call are not portable.
NOTES
Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call;
call it using syscall(2). Note however,
that spu_create() is meant to
be used from libraries that implement a more abstract
interface to SPUs, not to be used from regular applications.
See http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/
for the recommended libraries.
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.54 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man−pages/.
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