From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g025YY801751 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:34:34 -0800 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g025YUg01748 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:34:31 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g024YKw09899; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 02:34:20 -0200 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 02:34:20 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Carsten Langgaard Cc: Jun Sun , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: an old FPU context corruption problem when signal happens Message-ID: <20020102023420.A8786@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <3C21390A.FA23978D@mvista.com> <3C219A3B.6DA93A75@mips.com> <20011225044125.A16759@dea.linux-mips.net> <3C2AFD8C.6BAA7F1@mips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C2AFD8C.6BAA7F1@mips.com>; from carstenl@mips.com on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:53:00AM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:53:00AM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > You are welcome to find a better way of handling a non-fpu instruction in the > delay slot of the fpu-branch instruction. > But until someone find a better solution (that works, in all situation), I > think we need this patch. I could live with your solution if we'd be living in uniprocessor-land only. Well, that time is over now ... Ralf