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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm5
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:39:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r7tbtlrk.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1YRdQ-3pu-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Sun, 23 May 2004 04:50:06 +0200")

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Currently I know of a safe version that will work on x86 on processors
> with sse support.   And I how to generate 64bit I/O cycles with using
> mmx or x87 registers,  but don't know if I can write code that touches
> the FPU registers that is interrupt safe.

As long as you save/restore cr0 and the FPU registers and do clts
interrupts are not a problem.  In fact interrupts are even easier that
process context, where you need preempt_disable().

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2004-05-23 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <1YPF4-2hJ-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1YPOI-2nq-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1YRdQ-3pu-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-23 11:39       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-05-23 21:32         ` 2.6.6-mm5 Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-24  0:02         ` 2.6.6-mm5 Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-22 18:02 2.6.6-mm5 Adam Radford
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-22 10:27 2.6.6-mm5 Oleg Nesterov
2004-05-22  8:36 2.6.6-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-05-22  9:09 ` 2.6.6-mm5 Jeff Garzik
2004-05-22  9:22   ` 2.6.6-mm5 hch
2004-05-22  9:26     ` 2.6.6-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-05-22 11:51   ` 2.6.6-mm5 R. J. Wysocki
2004-05-22  9:26 ` 2.6.6-mm5 hch
2004-05-22  9:32   ` 2.6.6-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-05-22  9:41     ` 2.6.6-mm5 hch
2004-05-22 19:03       ` 2.6.6-mm5 Brian King
2004-05-22  9:38 ` 2.6.6-mm5 hch
2004-05-22  9:44   ` 2.6.6-mm5 Jens Axboe
2004-05-22  9:46 ` 2.6.6-mm5 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-05-23 15:51   ` 2.6.6-mm5 James Morris
2004-05-22 11:59 ` 2.6.6-mm5 Matthias Andree
2004-05-23  1:01 ` 2.6.6-mm5 Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-23  1:08   ` 2.6.6-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-05-23  1:15     ` 2.6.6-mm5 Roland Dreier
2004-05-24 16:17       ` 2.6.6-mm5 Matt Mackall
2004-05-24 17:03         ` 2.6.6-mm5 Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-24 17:43           ` 2.6.6-mm5 Roland Dreier
2004-05-25  7:25             ` 2.6.6-mm5 Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-23  2:45     ` 2.6.6-mm5 Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-25 13:53 ` 2.6.6-mm5 Pavel Machek
2004-05-26 12:41 ` 2.6.6-mm5 Anders Gustafsson
2004-05-26 12:49   ` 2.6.6-mm5 Jens Axboe
2004-05-26 12:59     ` 2.6.6-mm5 Anders Gustafsson
2004-05-26 13:03       ` 2.6.6-mm5 Jens Axboe

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