Merge branch 'for-2.6.23' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/cell-2.6

* 'for-2.6.23' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/cell-2.6: (37 commits)
  [CELL] spufs: rework list management and associated locking
  [CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUs
  [CELL] oprofile: enable SPU switch notification to detect currently active SPU tasks
  [CELL] spu_base: locking cleanup
  [CELL] cell: indexing of SPUs based on firmware vicinity properties
  [CELL] spufs: integration of SPE affinity with the scheduller
  [CELL] cell: add placement computation for scheduling of affinity contexts
  [CELL] spufs: extension of spu_create to support affinity definition
  [CELL] cell: add hardcoded spu vicinity information for QS20
  [CELL] cell: add vicinity information on spus
  [CELL] cell: add per BE structure with info about its SPUs
  [CELL] spufs: use find_first_bit() instead of sched_find_first_bit()
  [CELL] spufs: remove unused file argument from spufs_run_spu()
  [CELL] spufs: change decrementer restore timing
  [CELL] spufs: dont halt decrementer at restore step 47
  [CELL] spufs: limit saving MFC_CNTL bits
  [CELL] spufs: fix read and write for decr_status file
  [CELL] spufs: fix decr_status meanings
  [CELL] spufs: remove needless context save/restore code
  [CELL] spufs: fix array size of channel index
  ...

55 files changed, 4303 insertions, 914 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/cell_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/cell_defconfig
index 74f83f4a4e5e..d9ac24e8de16 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/cell_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/cell_defconfig
@@ -1455,7 +1455,8 @@ CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y
 # Instrumentation Support
 #
 CONFIG_PROFILING=y
-CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
+CONFIG_OPROFILE=m
+CONFIG_OPROFILE_CELL=y
 # CONFIG_KPROBES is not set
 
 #
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
index d3f2080d2eee..37658ea417fa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
@@ -219,6 +219,72 @@ void crash_kexec_secondary(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	cpus_in_sr = CPU_MASK_NONE;
 }
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPU_BASE
+
+#include <asm/spu.h>
+#include <asm/spu_priv1.h>
+
+struct crash_spu_info {
+	struct spu *spu;
+	u32 saved_spu_runcntl_RW;
+	u32 saved_spu_status_R;
+	u32 saved_spu_npc_RW;
+	u64 saved_mfc_sr1_RW;
+	u64 saved_mfc_dar;
+	u64 saved_mfc_dsisr;
+};
+
+#define CRASH_NUM_SPUS	16	/* Enough for current hardware */
+static struct crash_spu_info crash_spu_info[CRASH_NUM_SPUS];
+
+static void crash_kexec_stop_spus(void)
+{
+	struct spu *spu;
+	int i;
+	u64 tmp;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < CRASH_NUM_SPUS; i++) {
+		if (!crash_spu_info[i].spu)
+			continue;
+
+		spu = crash_spu_info[i].spu;
+
+		crash_spu_info[i].saved_spu_runcntl_RW =
+			in_be32(&spu->problem->spu_runcntl_RW);
+		crash_spu_info[i].saved_spu_status_R =
+			in_be32(&spu->problem->spu_status_R);
+		crash_spu_info[i].saved_spu_npc_RW =
+			in_be32(&spu->problem->spu_npc_RW);
+
+		crash_spu_info[i].saved_mfc_dar    = spu_mfc_dar_get(spu);
+		crash_spu_info[i].saved_mfc_dsisr  = spu_mfc_dsisr_get(spu);
+		tmp = spu_mfc_sr1_get(spu);
+		crash_spu_info[i].saved_mfc_sr1_RW = tmp;
+
+		tmp &= ~MFC_STATE1_MASTER_RUN_CONTROL_MASK;
+		spu_mfc_sr1_set(spu, tmp);
+
+		__delay(200);
+	}
+}
+
+void crash_register_spus(struct list_head *list)
+{
+	struct spu *spu;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(spu, list, full_list) {
+		if (WARN_ON(spu->number >= CRASH_NUM_SPUS))
+			continue;
+
+		crash_spu_info[spu->number].spu = spu;
+	}
+}
+
+#else
+static inline void crash_kexec_stop_spus(void)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SPU_BASE */
 
 void default_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
@@ -254,6 +320,7 @@ void default_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	crash_save_cpu(regs, crashing_cpu);
 	crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(crashing_cpu);
 	cpu_set(crashing_cpu, cpus_in_crash);
+	crash_kexec_stop_spus();
 	if (ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down)
 		ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down(1, 0);
 }
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index e5df167f7824..727a6699f2f4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ extern struct timezone sys_tz;
 static long timezone_offset;
 
 unsigned long ppc_proc_freq;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_proc_freq);
 unsigned long ppc_tb_freq;
 
 static u64 tb_last_jiffy __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig
index eb2dece76a54..7089e79689b9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig
@@ -15,3 +15,10 @@ config OPROFILE
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config OPROFILE_CELL
+	bool "OProfile for Cell Broadband Engine"
+	depends on (SPU_FS = y && OPROFILE = m) || (SPU_FS = y && OPROFILE = y) || (SPU_FS = m && OPROFILE = m)
+	default y
+	help
+	  Profiling of Cell BE SPUs requires special support enabled
+	  by this option.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Makefile
index 4b5f9528218c..c5f64c3bd668 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ DRIVER_OBJS := $(addprefix ../../../drivers/oprofile/, \
 		timer_int.o )
 
 oprofile-y := $(DRIVER_OBJS) common.o backtrace.o
-oprofile-$(CONFIG_PPC_CELL_NATIVE) += op_model_cell.o
+oprofile-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE_CELL) += op_model_cell.o \
+		cell/spu_profiler.o cell/vma_map.o \
+		cell/spu_task_sync.o
 oprofile-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += op_model_rs64.o op_model_power4.o op_model_pa6t.o
 oprofile-$(CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE) += op_model_fsl_booke.o
 oprofile-$(CONFIG_6xx) += op_model_7450.o
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/pr_util.h b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/pr_util.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e5704f00c8b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/pr_util.h
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+ /*
+ * Cell Broadband Engine OProfile Support
+ *
+ * (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2006
+ *
+ * Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#ifndef PR_UTIL_H
+#define PR_UTIL_H
+
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
+#include <linux/oprofile.h>
+#include <asm/cell-pmu.h>
+#include <asm/spu.h>
+
+#include "../../platforms/cell/cbe_regs.h"
+
+/* Defines used for sync_start */
+#define SKIP_GENERIC_SYNC 0
+#define SYNC_START_ERROR -1
+#define DO_GENERIC_SYNC 1
+
+struct spu_overlay_info {	/* map of sections within an SPU overlay */
+	unsigned int vma;	/* SPU virtual memory address from elf */
+	unsigned int size;	/* size of section from elf */
+	unsigned int offset;	/* offset of section into elf file */
+	unsigned int buf;
+};
+
+struct vma_to_fileoffset_map {	/* map of sections within an SPU program */
+	struct vma_to_fileoffset_map *next;	/* list pointer */
+	unsigned int vma;	/* SPU virtual memory address from elf */
+	unsigned int size;	/* size of section from elf */
+	unsigned int offset;	/* offset of section into elf file */
+	unsigned int guard_ptr;
+	unsigned int guard_val;
+        /*
+	 * The guard pointer is an entry in the _ovly_buf_table,
+	 * computed using ovly.buf as the index into the table.  Since
+	 * ovly.buf values begin at '1' to reference the first (or 0th)
+	 * entry in the _ovly_buf_table, the computation subtracts 1
+	 * from ovly.buf.
+	 * The guard value is stored in the _ovly_buf_table entry and
+	 * is an index (starting at 1) back to the _ovly_table entry
+	 * that is pointing at this _ovly_buf_table entry.  So, for
+	 * example, for an overlay scenario with one overlay segment
+	 * and two overlay sections:
+	 *      - Section 1 points to the first entry of the
+	 *        _ovly_buf_table, which contains a guard value
+	 *        of '1', referencing the first (index=0) entry of
+	 *        _ovly_table.
+	 *      - Section 2 points to the second entry of the
+	 *        _ovly_buf_table, which contains a guard value
+	 *        of '2', referencing the second (index=1) entry of
+	 *        _ovly_table.
+	 */
+
+};
+
+/* The three functions below are for maintaining and accessing
+ * the vma-to-fileoffset map.
+ */
+struct vma_to_fileoffset_map *create_vma_map(const struct spu *spu,
+					     u64 objectid);
+unsigned int vma_map_lookup(struct vma_to_fileoffset_map *map,
+			    unsigned int vma, const struct spu *aSpu,
+			    int *grd_val);
+void vma_map_free(struct vma_to_fileoffset_map *map);
+
+/*
+ * Entry point for SPU profiling.
+ * cycles_reset is the SPU_CYCLES count value specified by the user.
+ */
+int start_spu_profiling(unsigned int cycles_reset);
+
+void stop_spu_profiling(void);
+
+
+/* add the necessary profiling hooks */
+int spu_sync_start(void);
+
+/* remove the hooks */
+int spu_sync_stop(void);
+
+/* Record SPU program counter samples to the oprofile event buffer. */
+void spu_sync_buffer(int spu_num, unsigned int *samples,
+		     int num_samples);
+
+void set_spu_profiling_frequency(unsigned int freq_khz, unsigned int cycles_reset);
+
+#endif	  /* PR_UTIL_H */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/spu_profiler.c b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/spu_profiler.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..380d7e217531
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/spu_profiler.c
@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
+/*
+ * Cell Broadband Engine OProfile Support
+ *
+ * (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2006
+ *
+ * Authors: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
+ *	    Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
+#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <asm/cell-pmu.h>
+#include "pr_util.h"
+
+#define TRACE_ARRAY_SIZE 1024
+#define SCALE_SHIFT 14
+
+static u32 *samples;
+
+static int spu_prof_running;
+static unsigned int profiling_interval;
+
+#define NUM_SPU_BITS_TRBUF 16
+#define SPUS_PER_TB_ENTRY   4
+#define SPUS_PER_NODE	     8
+
+#define SPU_PC_MASK	     0xFFFF
+
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sample_array_lock);
+unsigned long sample_array_lock_flags;
+
+void set_spu_profiling_frequency(unsigned int freq_khz, unsigned int cycles_reset)
+{
+	unsigned long ns_per_cyc;
+
+	if (!freq_khz)
+		freq_khz = ppc_proc_freq/1000;
+
+	/* To calculate a timeout in nanoseconds, the basic
+	 * formula is ns = cycles_reset * (NSEC_PER_SEC / cpu frequency).
+	 * To avoid floating point math, we use the scale math
+	 * technique as described in linux/jiffies.h.  We use
+	 * a scale factor of SCALE_SHIFT, which provides 4 decimal places
+	 * of precision.  This is close enough for the purpose at hand.
+	 *
+	 * The value of the timeout should be small enough that the hw
+	 * trace buffer will not get more then about 1/3 full for the
+	 * maximum user specified (the LFSR value) hw sampling frequency.
+	 * This is to ensure the trace buffer will never fill even if the
+	 * kernel thread scheduling varies under a heavy system load.
+	 */
+
+	ns_per_cyc = (USEC_PER_SEC << SCALE_SHIFT)/freq_khz;
+	profiling_interval = (ns_per_cyc * cycles_reset) >> SCALE_SHIFT;
+
+}
+
+/*
+ * Extract SPU PC from trace buffer entry
+ */
+static void spu_pc_extract(int cpu, int entry)
+{
+	/* the trace buffer is 128 bits */
+	u64 trace_buffer[2];
+	u64 spu_mask;
+	int spu;
+
+	spu_mask = SPU_PC_MASK;
+
+	/* Each SPU PC is 16 bits; hence, four spus in each of
+	 * the two 64-bit buffer entries that make up the
+	 * 128-bit trace_buffer entry.	Process two 64-bit values
+	 * simultaneously.
+	 * trace[0] SPU PC contents are: 0 1 2 3
+	 * trace[1] SPU PC contents are: 4 5 6 7
+	 */
+
+	cbe_read_trace_buffer(cpu, trace_buffer);
+
+	for (spu = SPUS_PER_TB_ENTRY-1; spu >= 0; spu--) {
+		/* spu PC trace entry is upper 16 bits of the
+		 * 18 bit SPU program counter
+		 */
+		samples[spu * TRACE_ARRAY_SIZE + entry]
+			= (spu_mask & trace_buffer[0]) << 2;
+		samples[(spu + SPUS_PER_TB_ENTRY) * TRACE_ARRAY_SIZE + entry]
+			= (spu_mask & trace_buffer[1]) << 2;
+
+		trace_buffer[0] = trace_buffer[0] >> NUM_SPU_BITS_TRBUF;
+		trace_buffer[1] = trace_buffer[1] >> NUM_SPU_BITS_TRBUF;
+	}
+}
+
+static int cell_spu_pc_collection(int cpu)
+{
+	u32 trace_addr;
+	int entry;
+
+	/* process the collected SPU PC for the node */
+
+	entry = 0;
+
+	trace_addr = cbe_read_pm(cpu, trace_address);
+	while (!(trace_addr & CBE_PM_TRACE_BUF_EMPTY)) {
+		/* there is data in the trace buffer to process */
+		spu_pc_extract(cpu, entry);
+
+		entry++;
+
+		if (entry >= TRACE_ARRAY_SIZE)
+			/* spu_samples is full */
+			break;
+
+		trace_addr = cbe_read_pm(cpu, trace_address);
+	}
+
+	return entry;
+}
+
+
+static enum hrtimer_restart profile_spus(struct hrtimer *timer)
+{
+	ktime_t kt;
+	int cpu, node, k, num_samples, spu_num;
+
+	if (!spu_prof_running)
+		goto stop;
+
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		if (cbe_get_hw_thread_id(cpu))
+			continue;
+
+		node = cbe_cpu_to_node(cpu);
+
+		/* There should only be one kernel thread at a time processing
+		 * the samples.	 In the very unlikely case that the processing
+		 * is taking a very long time and multiple kernel threads are
+		 * started to process the samples.  Make sure only one kernel
+		 * thread is working on the samples array at a time.  The
+		 * sample array must be loaded and then processed for a given
+		 * cpu.	 The sample array is not per cpu.
+		 */
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&sample_array_lock,
+				  sample_array_lock_flags);
+		num_samples = cell_spu_pc_collection(cpu);
+
+		if (num_samples == 0) {
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sample_array_lock,
+					       sample_array_lock_flags);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		for (k = 0; k < SPUS_PER_NODE; k++) {
+			spu_num = k + (node * SPUS_PER_NODE);
+			spu_sync_buffer(spu_num,
+					samples + (k * TRACE_ARRAY_SIZE),
+					num_samples);
+		}
+
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sample_array_lock,
+				       sample_array_lock_flags);
+
+	}
+	smp_wmb();	/* insure spu event buffer updates are written */
+			/* don't want events intermingled... */
+
+	kt = ktime_set(0, profiling_interval);
+	if (!spu_prof_running)
+		goto stop;
+	hrtimer_forward(timer, timer->base->get_time(), kt);
+	return HRTIMER_RESTART;
+
+ stop:
+	printk(KERN_INFO "SPU_PROF: spu-prof timer ending\n");
+	return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
+}
+
+static struct hrtimer timer;
+/*
+ * Entry point for SPU profiling.
+ * NOTE:  SPU profiling is done system-wide, not per-CPU.
+ *
+ * cycles_reset is the count value specified by the user when
+ * setting up OProfile to count SPU_CYCLES.
+ */
+int start_spu_profiling(unsigned int cycles_reset)
+{
+	ktime_t kt;
+
+	pr_debug("timer resolution: %lu\n", TICK_NSEC);
+	kt = ktime_set(0, profiling_interval);
+	hrtimer_init(&timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+	timer.expires = kt;
+	timer.function = profile_spus;
+
+	/* Allocate arrays for collecting SPU PC samples */
+	samples = kzalloc(SPUS_PER_NODE *
+			  TRACE_ARRAY_SIZE * sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	if (!samples)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	spu_prof_running = 1;
+	hrtimer_start(&timer, kt, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void stop_spu_profiling(void)
+{
+	spu_prof_running = 0;
+	hrtimer_cancel(&timer);
+	kfree(samples);
+	pr_debug("SPU_PROF: stop_spu_profiling issued\n");
+}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/spu_task_sync.c b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/spu_task_sync.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..133665754a75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/cell/spu_task_sync.c
@@ -0,0 +1,484 @@
+/*
+ * Cell Broadband Engine OProfile Support
+ *
+ * (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2006
+ *
+ * Author: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+/* The purpose of this file is to handle SPU event task switching
+ * and to record SPU context information into the OProfile
+ * event buffer.
+ *
+ * Additionally, the spu_sync_buffer function is provided as a helper
+ * for recoding actual SPU program counter samples to the event buffer.
+ */
+#include <linux/dcookies.h>
+#include <linux/kref.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/notifier.h>
+#include <linux/numa.h>
+#include <linux/oprofile.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include "pr_util.h"
+
+#define RELEASE_ALL 9999
+
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(buffer_lock);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cache_lock);
+static int num_spu_nodes;
+int spu_prof_num_nodes;
+int last_guard_val[MAX_NUMNODES * 8];
+
+/* Container for caching information about an active SPU task. */
+struct cached_info {
+	struct vma_to_fileoffset_map *map;
+	struct spu *the_spu;	/* needed to access pointer to local_store */
+	struct kref cache_ref;
+};
+
+static struct cached_info *spu_info[MAX_NUMNODES * 8];
+
+static void destroy_cached_info(struct kref *kref)
+{
+	struct cached_info *info;
+
+	info = container_of(kref, struct cached_info, cache_ref);
+	vma_map_free(info->map);
+	kfree(info);
+	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+}
+
+/* Return the cached_info for the passed SPU number.
+ * ATTENTION:  Callers are responsible for obtaining the
+ *	       cache_lock if needed prior to invoking this function.
+ */
+static struct cached_info *get_cached_info(struct spu *the_spu, int spu_num)
+{
+	struct kref *ref;
+	struct cached_info *ret_info;
+
+	if (spu_num >= num_spu_nodes) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "SPU_PROF: "
+		       "%s, line %d: Invalid index %d into spu info cache\n",
+		       __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, spu_num);
+		ret_info = NULL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	if (!spu_info[spu_num] && the_spu) {
+		ref = spu_get_profile_private_kref(the_spu->ctx);
+		if (ref) {
+			spu_info[spu_num] = container_of(ref, struct cached_info, cache_ref);
+			kref_get(&spu_info[spu_num]->cache_ref);
+		}
+	}
+
+	ret_info = spu_info[spu_num];
+ out:
+	return ret_info;
+}
+
+
+/* Looks for cached info for the passed spu.  If not found, the
+ * cached info is created for the passed spu.
+ * Returns 0 for success; otherwise, -1 for error.
+ */
+static int
+prepare_cached_spu_info(struct spu *spu, unsigned long objectId)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct vma_to_fileoffset_map *new_map;
+	int retval = 0;
+	struct cached_info *info;
+
+	/* We won't bother getting cache_lock here since
+	 * don't do anything with the cached_info that's returned.
+	 */
+	info = get_cached_info(spu, spu->number);
+
+	if (info) {
+		pr_debug("Found cached SPU info.\n");
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	/* Create cached_info and set spu_info[spu->number] to point to it.
+	 * spu->number is a system-wide value, not a per-node value.
+	 */
+	info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cached_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!info) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "SPU_PROF: "
+		       "%s, line %d: create vma_map failed\n",
+		       __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
+		retval = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_alloc;
+	}
+	new_map = create_vma_map(spu, objectId);
+	if (!new_map) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "SPU_PROF: "
+		       "%s, line %d: create vma_map failed\n",
+		       __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
+		retval = -ENOMEM;
+		goto err_alloc;
+	}
+
+	pr_debug("Created vma_map\n");
+	info->map = new_map;
+	info->the_spu = spu;
+	kref_init(&info->cache_ref);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&cache_lock, flags);
+	spu_info[spu->number] = info;
+	/* Increment count before passing off ref to SPUFS. */
+	kref_get(&info->cache_ref);
+
+	/* We increment the module refcount here since SPUFS is
+	 * responsible for the final destruction of the cached_info,
+	 * and it must be able to access the destroy_cached_info()
+	 * function defined in the OProfile module.  We decrement
+	 * the module refcount in destroy_cached_info.
+	 */
+	try_module_get(THIS_MODULE);
+	spu_set_profile_private_kref(spu->ctx, &info->cache_ref,
+				destroy_cached_info);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cache_lock, flags);
+	goto out;
+
+err_alloc:
+	kfree(info);
+out:
+	return retval;
+}
+
+/*
+ * NOTE:  The caller is responsible for locking the
+ *	  cache_lock prior to calling this function.
+ */
+static int release_cached_info(int spu_index)
+{
+	int index, end;
+
+	if (spu_index == RELEASE_ALL) {
+		end = num_spu_nodes;
+		index = 0;
+	} else {
+		if (spu_index >= num_spu_nodes) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "SPU_PROF: "
+				"%s, line %d: "
+				"Invalid index %d into spu info cache\n",
+				__FUNCTION__, __LINE__, spu_index);
+			goto out;
+		}
+		end = spu_index + 1;
+		index = spu_index;
+	}