Re: Preemption in do_cpu

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

>>>>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:20:21 -0700, Jun Sun <jsun@junsun.net> said:
jsun> fpu_emulator maintains global variables and in general is
jsun> dangerous to be preempted in the middle of processing.

jsun> The quick fix for this problem is probably to move preemption
jsun> disabling/ enabling inside fpu_emulator_cop1Handler().

Also, get_user/put_user should not be used with preempt disabled.

Here is Quick and dirty workaround (including some other preemption fixes):

http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20041025.003619.92586674.anemo%40mba.ocn.ne.jp

jsun> Better fix is probably to modify fpu emulator so that it is
jsun> preemption safe overall.

Sure.  It will make fpu emulator SMP safe also.

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Atsushi Nemoto