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    GRU Driver: hardware data structures · 34d8a380
    Jack Steiner authored
    This series of patches adds a driver for the SGI UV GRU.  The driver is
    still in development but it currently compiles for both x86_64 & IA64.
    All simple regression tests pass on IA64.  Although features remain to be
    added, I'd like to start the process of getting the driver into the
    kernel.  Additional kernel drivers will depend on services provide by the
    GRU driver.
    
    The GRU is a hardware resource located in the system chipset.  The GRU
    contains memory that is mmaped into the user address space.  This memory
    is used to communicate with the GRU to perform functions such as
    load/store, scatter/gather, bcopy, AMOs, etc.  The GRU is directly
    accessed by user instructions using user virtual addresses.  GRU
    instructions (ex., bcopy) use user virtual addresses for operands.
    
    The GRU contains a large TLB that is functionally very similar to
    processor TLBs.  Because the external contains a TLB with user virtual
    address, it requires callouts from the core VM system when certain types
    of changes are made to the process page tables.  There are several MMUOPS
    patches currently being discussed but none has been accepted into the
    kernel.  The GRU driver is built using version V18 from Andrea Arcangeli.
    
    This patch:
    
    Contains the definitions of the hardware GRU data structures that are used
    by the driver to manage the GRU.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation;org: export hpage_shift]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
    Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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