Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 09:43:09PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> The PS3 notification interrupt and kthread use a hacked up completion to
>> communicate. Since we're wanting to change the completion implementation and
>> this is abuse anyway, replace it with a simpl
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior writes:
> On 2020-03-19 03:04:59 [-0700], Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> But I wonder how alive the whole PS3 support is to start with..
>
> OtherOS can only be used on "old" PS3 which do not have have their
> firmware upgraded past version 3.21, released April 1, 2010 [0].
Hi,
On 3/19/20 3:26 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-03-19 03:04:59 [-0700], Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> But I wonder how alive the whole PS3 support is to start with..
>
> OtherOS can only be used on "old" PS3 which do not have have their
> firmware upgraded past version 3.21, rele
On 2020-03-19 03:04:59 [-0700], Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> But I wonder how alive the whole PS3 support is to start with..
OtherOS can only be used on "old" PS3 which do not have have their
firmware upgraded past version 3.21, released April 1, 2010 [0].
It was not possible to install OtherOS on P
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 09:43:09PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The PS3 notification interrupt and kthread use a hacked up completion to
> communicate. Since we're wanting to change the completion implementation and
> this is abuse anyway, replace it with a simple rcuwait since there is only
>
On 2020-03-18 21:43:09 [+0100], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
> @@ -725,12 +728,12 @@ static int ps3_notification_read_write(s
> unsigned long flags;
> int res;
>
> - init_completion(&dev->d
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not increase loadavg, kthreads
cannot receive signals by default and this one doesn't look different. Use
TASK_IDLE instead.
Hmm it seems in general this needs to be done kernel-wide. This kthread abuse of
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:00:24AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-03-18 21:43:09 [+0100], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
> > @@ -725,12 +728,12 @@ static int ps3_notification_read_write(
The PS3 notification interrupt and kthread use a hacked up completion to
communicate. Since we're wanting to change the completion implementation and
this is abuse anyway, replace it with a simple rcuwait since there is only ever
the one waiter.
AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not in
