RE: [Linux-ia64] High fpu register corruption

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2003 10:14:20 -0700, "Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> said:

  Asit> David, The save part in the context switch also needs to be
  Asit> fixed and we will take a look at this.

Are you sure?  It looks fine to me.  What's the scenario you're
worried about?  Note that if an application clears psr.mfh it says: I
no longer care about the state, next time I touch it, give me whatever
contents you have (either all zeroes or an earlier snapshot of fph;
never the contents of fph from another thread, of course).

Note that the fph registers are all scratch registers.  Are you
worried about someone implementing a non-standard calling convention?
Even then I think an application that clears psr.mfh is saying that
the fph contents is no longer relevant, so I think we'd still be OK.

	--david