Re: FPU emulator unsafe for SMP?

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:14:52AM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> 
> > I submitted a series of patches a year or so ago, the
> > last of which really should have been a comprehensive
> > fix to the FPU context switch and signal problems.
> > The last time I looked, that patch had never made it into
> > the OSS repository, but neither had anyone reported
> > any holes in it.
> 
> I was actually beliving that the bundle of patches I received from
> Carsten maybe 3 months ago did fix all the issues?
>

False alarm - I did some tests and kgdb trace, and confirmed that the 
the current FPU code indeed solved all the fpu/signal problems that 
I know of.  Good to know we can actually make things work!

Jun