From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:55:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150818075520.GB32338@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUFpqb8=dYq0q4JomaH1i51OrY48B6PKZQbaN2mOxMW+w@mail.gmail.com>
* Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > So when I re-introduced static allocations math-emu started working again, to
> > a limited degree: on a modern distro, trying to boot /bin/bash I got a prompt,
> > but various programs would segfault. I did not investigate it any deeper, I
> > suppose the FPU emulation does not go far enough for modern user-space, or
> > maybe it has more bugs.
>
> Were you testing with just no387 or did you run a VM with SSE2 and such turned
> off?
>
> There's a *lot* of userspace that incorrectly checks for instructions without
> checking for the state support. I've filed bugs against libgcc for this and
> they're still not fixed IIRC.
I tested relatively ancient user-space, 2007 era Fedora Core 6 - but I didn't
check whether it's truly SSE-less (it probably isn't).
Thanks,
Ingo
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2015-08-14 7:15 [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar
2015-08-14 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-14 18:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-14 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-14 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-14 19:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-14 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-14 19:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-17 8:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-17 10:59 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-08-17 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-18 7:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-17 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-17 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-17 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-17 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-19 5:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-19 6:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-19 6:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-19 10:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-19 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-20 6:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-19 21:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-21 10:17 ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-08-17 23:47 ` Bryan O'Donoghue
2015-08-17 21:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-17 23:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-18 0:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-18 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-18 0:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-18 5:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-18 5:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-18 7:55 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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