Float crash. Fix in exit_thread()

[Kjeld Borch Egevang <kjelde@mips.com>]

I'm running on a system with no FPU. Now, I've got a program do_float 
which seems to work fine. But if I enter:

/bin/echo hello; ./do_float

it terminates with a bus error or FP error. The bug is in exit_thread(). 
Can anyone explain to me, what good the "cfc1 $0,$31" does?


Here is the patch:

RCS file: /cvs/linux/arch/mips/kernel/process.c,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -u -r1.36 process.c
--- process.c   2002/05/29 18:36:28     1.36
+++ process.c   2002/06/06 14:51:32
@@ -54,9 +54,11 @@
 void exit_thread(void)
 {
        /* Forget lazy fpu state */
-       if (last_task_used_math == current && mips_cpu.options & MIPS_CPU_FPU) {
-               __enable_fpu();
-               __asm__ __volatile__("cfc1\t$0,$31");
+       if (last_task_used_math == current) {
+               if (mips_cpu.options & MIPS_CPU_FPU) {
+                       __enable_fpu();
+                       __asm__ __volatile__("cfc1\t$0,$31");
+               }
                last_task_used_math = NULL;
        }
 }
@@ -64,9 +66,11 @@
 void flush_thread(void)
 {
        /* Forget lazy fpu state */
-       if (last_task_used_math == current && mips_cpu.options & MIPS_CPU_FPU) {
-               __enable_fpu();
-               __asm__ __volatile__("cfc1\t$0,$31");
+       if (last_task_used_math == current) {
+               if (mips_cpu.options & MIPS_CPU_FPU) {
+                       __enable_fpu();
+                       __asm__ __volatile__("cfc1\t$0,$31");
+               }
                last_task_used_math = NULL;
        }
 }



/Kjeld


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