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[PATCH] ia64: fix floating-point preemption problem

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There've been reports of problems with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y and the high
floating point partition.  This is caused by the possibility of preemption
and rescheduling on a different processor while saving or restioirng the
high partition.

The only places where the FPU state is touched are in ptrace, in
switch_to(), and where handling a floating-point exception.  In switch_to()
preemption is off.  So it's only in trap.c and ptrace.c that we need to
prevent preemption.

Here is a patch that adds commentary to make the conditions clear, and adds
appropriate preempt_{en,dis}able() calls to make it so.  In trap.c I use
preempt_enable_no_resched(), as we're about to return to user space where
the preemption flag will be checked anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Peter Chubb
2005-06-08 15:50:20 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f829fd23c8
commit 05062d96a2
3 changed files with 24 additions and 3 deletions
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include/asm-ia64/processor.h
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@@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ extern void ia64_setreg_unknown_kr (void);
* task_struct at this point.
*/
/* Return TRUE if task T owns the fph partition of the CPU we're running on. */
/*
* Return TRUE if task T owns the fph partition of the CPU we're running on.
* Must be called from code that has preemption disabled.
*/
#define ia64_is_local_fpu_owner(t) \
({ \
struct task_struct *__ia64_islfo_task = (t); \
@@ -411,7 +414,10 @@ extern void ia64_setreg_unknown_kr (void);
&& __ia64_islfo_task == (struct task_struct *) ia64_get_kr(IA64_KR_FPU_OWNER)); \
})
/* Mark task T as owning the fph partition of the CPU we're running on. */
/*
* Mark task T as owning the fph partition of the CPU we're running on.
* Must be called from code that has preemption disabled.
*/
#define ia64_set_local_fpu_owner(t) do { \
struct task_struct *__ia64_slfo_task = (t); \
__ia64_slfo_task->thread.last_fph_cpu = smp_processor_id(); \