Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:21:13 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: ABI change for device drivers using future AVX instruction set |
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> This is fixable.
Sure nearly everything is fixable, but why would you want to do that?
For me the best fix currently seems to be to just not do that when it hurts.
> We could change kernel_fpu_begin() not to disable > preemption, but instead set a task flag. When we get the "no device" > fault, if the flag is set, save the fpu state into the kernel fpu save > area
What kernel fpu save area do you mean?
-Andi
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