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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-24 16:44:30 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-24 16:44:30 +0000
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@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@ memory or message queues.
Users that have write permissions
on the file system can use
.BR spu_create (2)
-to establish SPU contexts under the spufs root directory.
+to establish SPU contexts under the
+.B spufs
+root directory.
Every SPU context is represented by a directory containing
a predefined set of files.
@@ -53,12 +55,13 @@ Set the user owning the mount point; the default is 0 (root).
Set the group owning the mount point; the default is 0 (root).
.TP
.B mode=<mode>
-Set the mode of the top-level directory in spufs,
+Set the mode of the top-level directory in
+.BR spufs ,
as an octal mode string.
The default is 0775.
.SS Files
The files in
-.I spufs
+.B spufs
mostly follow the standard behavior for regular system calls like
.BR read (2)
or
@@ -713,7 +716,8 @@ mappings are allowed.
.I /psmap
Provides access to the whole problem-state mapping of the SPU.
Applications can use this area to interface to the SPU, rather than
-writing to individual register files in spufs.
+writing to individual register files in
+.BR spufs .
The following operations are supported:
.RS