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

[Wolfgang Walter]

On Saturday 09 August 2008, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:11:21PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> >
> > With out the recent dynamic fpu allocation changes, while we don't see 
oops,
> > there is a possible race still present in older kernels(for example,
> > while kernel is using kernel_fpu_begin() in some optimized clear/copy
> > page and an interrupt/softirq happens which uses these padlock
> > instructions generating DNA fault).
> 
> No this wasn't a problem because kernel_fpu_begin clears TS and
> therefore we don't get faults on SSE instructions.
> 
> However, with your patch it will become a problem due to the
> fact that it wasn't designed to be nested.
> 

You mean the dynamic fpu allocation patch or the proposed patch for padlock 
code? 

Thanks,
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