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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] coredump: flush the fpu exit state for proper multi-threaded core dump
On 05/08, Suresh Siddha wrote:
>
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -656,6 +656,11 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk)
> struct core_thread self;
> up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>
> + /*
> + * Flush the live extended register state to memory.
> + */
> + prepare_to_copy(tsk);

This doesn't look very nice imho, but I guess you understand this...

Perhaps we need an arch-dependent helper which saves the FPU regs
if needed.

I can be easily wrong, but I did the quick grep and I am not sure
we can rely on prepare_to_copy(). For example, it is a nop in
arch/sh/include/asm/processor_64.h. But at the same time it has
save_fpu().

OTOH, I am not sure it is safe to use prepare_to_copy() in exit_mm(),
at least in theory. God knows what it can do...

But again, I do not think I can comment this change. Perhaps this
is the right step anyway.

Oleg.



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