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SubjectRe: How to use floating point in a module?
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Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Floating point is forbidden in kernel code since the floating point
> registers (and other floating point context) is not saved/restored
> during system calls, for efficiency. I'm speculating here, but it
> might be possible to manually save the floating point context while
> doing some floating point operations. The problem arises if this code
> is interrupted midway. Using a preemptive 2.6 kernel would easily
> break here.

What about adding some functions such as enable_fpreg_syscalls() and
disable_fpreg_syscalls() that could be called before and after any floating
point operations? They could set a flag somewhere that would cause the
float registers to be saved/restored. Forgive me if this is somehow stupid.
I'm very much a kernel newbie.

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