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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-27 23:17:14 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-05-05 09:22:23 -0600
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docs: filesystems: convert spufs/spu_create.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/4d42e97d5560a79bd5dd443c592be04f9ae9a757.1588021877.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spu_create.rst (renamed from Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spu_create.txt)52
3 files changed, 44 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index c658ddee40fa..5fb2b2166204 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations.
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs
relay
romfs
+ spufs/index
squashfs
sysfs
sysv-fs
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..39553c6ebefd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==============
+SPU Filesystem
+==============
+
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ spu_create
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spu_create.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spu_create.rst
index 8ede5a35340f..83108c099696 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spu_create.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spu_create.rst
@@ -1,18 +1,26 @@
-SPU_CREATE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SPU_CREATE(2)
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+==========
+spu_create
+==========
-
-NAME
+Name
+====
spu_create - create a new spu context
-SYNOPSIS
- #include <sys/types.h>
- #include <sys/spu.h>
+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);
-DESCRIPTION
+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
@@ -43,13 +51,15 @@ DESCRIPTION
possible mode values.
-RETURN VALUE
+Return Value
+============
spu_create returns a new file descriptor. It may return -1 to indicate
an error condition and set errno to one of the error codes listed
below.
-ERRORS
+Errors
+======
EACCES
The current user does not have write access on the spufs mount
point.
@@ -87,33 +97,35 @@ ERRORS
-NOTES
+Notes
+=====
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 rec-
ommended libraries.
-FILES
+Files
+=====
pathname must point to a location beneath the mount point of spufs. By
convention, it gets mounted in /spu.
-CONFORMING TO
+Conforming to
+=============
This call is Linux specific and only implemented by the ppc64 architec-
ture. Programs using this system call are not portable.
-BUGS
+Bugs
+====
The code does not yet fully implement all features lined out here.
-AUTHOR
+Author
+======
Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
-SEE ALSO
+See Also
+========
capabilities(7), close(2), spu_run(2), spufs(7)
-
-
-
-Linux 2005-09-28 SPU_CREATE(2)