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| author |   Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> | 2005-06-08 15:50:20 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-08 16:21:14 -0700 |
| commit | 05062d96a23ec0959ee5ea969f40813170c73c0e (patch) | |
| tree | 9aa09b58ff455cc43b81cae10d3c4dac9fe9f462 /include | |
| parent | [PATCH] ppc64 kprobes: remove spurious MSR_SE masking (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-05062d96a23ec0959ee5ea969f40813170c73c0e.tar.xz linux-dev-05062d96a23ec0959ee5ea969f40813170c73c0e.zip | |
[PATCH] ia64: fix floating-point preemption problem
There've been reports of problems with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y and the high
floating point partition. This is caused by the possibility of preemption
and rescheduling on a different processor while saving or restioirng the
high partition.
The only places where the FPU state is touched are in ptrace, in
switch_to(), and where handling a floating-point exception. In switch_to()
preemption is off. So it's only in trap.c and ptrace.c that we need to
prevent preemption.
Here is a patch that adds commentary to make the conditions clear, and adds
appropriate preempt_{en,dis}able() calls to make it so. In trap.c I use
preempt_enable_no_resched(), as we're about to return to user space where
the preemption flag will be checked anyway.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-ia64/processor.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/processor.h b/include/asm-ia64/processor.h index 9e1ba8b7fb68..91bbd1f22461 100644 --- a/include/asm-ia64/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-ia64/processor.h @@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ extern void ia64_setreg_unknown_kr (void); * task_struct at this point. */ -/* Return TRUE if task T owns the fph partition of the CPU we're running on. */ +/* + * Return TRUE if task T owns the fph partition of the CPU we're running on. + * Must be called from code that has preemption disabled. + */ #define ia64_is_local_fpu_owner(t) \ ({ \ struct task_struct *__ia64_islfo_task = (t); \ @@ -411,7 +414,10 @@ extern void ia64_setreg_unknown_kr (void); && __ia64_islfo_task == (struct task_struct *) ia64_get_kr(IA64_KR_FPU_OWNER)); \ }) -/* Mark task T as owning the fph partition of the CPU we're running on. */ +/* + * Mark task T as owning the fph partition of the CPU we're running on. + * Must be called from code that has preemption disabled. + */ #define ia64_set_local_fpu_owner(t) do { \ struct task_struct *__ia64_slfo_task = (t); \ __ia64_slfo_task->thread.last_fph_cpu = smp_processor_id(); \ |