On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:05:15AM -0500, Victor Zandy wrote:
>
> He found that PF_USEDFPU was always set before the machine was broken.
> After he found that it was set about 70% of the time.
If I'm not mistaken this actully can cause GLOBAL FPU corruption.
Here's why:
Assyme for a moment that we lose either the PF_USEDFPU flag of one
process. This not only means that the current process won't have its
state saved, it also means that the next process won't have the TS bit
set. This in turn means that this new process won't get PF_USEDFPU set
and suddenly we have a second process with a corrupted FPU state.
Victor: Could you try to reproduce the system wide corruption if you
add an explicit call to stts(); at the very end of __switch_to?
This should prevent the FPU corruption from spreading.
NOTE: This is just to prove my theory, it is not and isn't meant
to be a fix for the actual problem.
regards Christian Ehrhardt
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