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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [patch] ia64: fix potential NaT bit error for sys_pipe().
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:32:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501210332.j0L3Wmg24796@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16878.2168.388519.26567@napali.hpl.hp.com>

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:22:59 -0800, "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> said:
>
>   Rohit> We are also thinking of reseting the mfh bit on every syscall
>   Rohit> entry as an optimization.
>
>   Rohit> Comments?

David Mosberger wrote on Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:51 PM
> Sounds OK with me.  We should delete this comment from process.c then,
> ....
> and change:
>
> #define THREAD_FLAGS_TO_CLEAR (IA64_THREAD_FPH_VALID | IA64_THREAD_DBG_VALID \
>                                | IA64_THREAD_PM_VALID)
>
> to:
>
> #define THREAD_FLAGS_TO_CLEAR (IA64_THREAD_DBG_VALID | IA64_THREAD_PM_VALID)

We would rather not to change THREAD_FLAGS_TO_CLEAR definition.  mfh bit in child
pt_regs is cleared right above where the comment is.  I think it is better as is
so that child thread fph partition stays invalidated.

- Ken



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-21  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-19  7:12 [patch] ia64: fix potential NaT bit error for sys_pipe() David Mosberger
2005-01-20 17:52 ` David Mosberger
2005-01-20 19:00 ` Seth, Rohit
2005-01-20 23:22 ` Seth, Rohit
2005-01-20 23:51 ` David Mosberger
2005-01-21  3:32 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
2005-01-21 18:48 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-01-24  6:40 ` David Mosberger
2005-01-24 19:17 ` David Mosberger
2005-01-24 19:32 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-01-24 19:43 ` David Mosberger

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