Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] Fix ppc fpu support

[Heikki Lindholm <holindho@domain.hid>]

Jan Kiszka kirjoitti:
> Heikki Lindholm wrote:
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>>Jan Kiszka kirjoitti:
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>>>Heikki Lindholm wrote:
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>>>>Xenomai might preempt linux when linux has cleared a tasks MSR_FP, but
>>>>not yet set last_task_used_math to NULL. As a result the tasks MSR_FP
>>>>will get set, although it should be cleared. If the task happens to hit
>>>>one of the codepaths that save FPU state if MSR_FP is set, the wrong FPU
>>>>state might be saved to the task. The attached patch should fix this. I
>>>>couldn't try it on most recent Xenomai trunk, because latency wouldn't
>>>>build anymore. However, I see no reason it shouldn't work. All thee
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>>>Is it still broken with latest revision 376? Philippe had merged the fix
>>>for my mess, and it worked at least for 2.6 on my box again.
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>>I'd say this has been unchanged since the beginning (0.9?).
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> Then, what latency are we talking about? My last modifications went to
> src/testsuite/latency. Did you mean ksrc/skins/native/demos/latency.c?

Sorry, I misinterpreted in a hurry. I was (still) talking about the fpu 
;) It might be that the latency test didn't compile, because I didn't 
even enable the rtdm measuring device in kernel config or something(?). 
I'll try again.

-- Heikki Lindholm