Re: Kernel oops with 2.6.26, padlock and ipsec: probably problem with fpu state changes

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Aug 09 2008 - 10:33:24 EST


On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:29:18PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> OK I take that back, Intel (and AMD) processors are equally affected
> by this. For a start, the newly added Intel crc32c driver suffers
> from exactly the same problem since the instruction used is also
> SSE.

Actually I was mistaken, Intel has done the right thing by not
generating a fault on crc32c with TS set.

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