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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:41:04 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: Crash in -next due to 'MIPS: Move FP usage checks into
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Hi Paul,

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 01:02:14PM -0700, Paul Burton wrote:
> 
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> I'm currently mailing out v2 of the series which should fix your
> problem. It was an issue where the kernel would check the FP context for
> whether a SIGFPE should be generated even in cases where FP had not been
> used by userland, and thus had not been initialised. My userland is
> hard float & thus makes use of the FPU early whilst I believe yours is
> soft float, which explains the difference in behaviour.
> 
> I think the endian difference probably boils down to what garbage the
> initial FP context contained.
> 
Thanks a lot for the fix!

Guenter