Re: [RFC] x86, fpu: unify signal handling code paths for x86 andx86_64 kernels

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jun 14 2012 - 16:49:00 EST


On 06/12/2012 05:03 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> I can split the patch if needed. And I need to do little bit more
> validation (already tested on 64-bit IVB and 32-bit NHM) before
> removing the 'RFC' tag.
>
> I tried starting with the old version of Hans patch. But there were lot
> more changes in this area since then and also his patch had few
> user-visible compatibility issues.
>
> Appended is the version that I came up with. Please review.
>

This patch doesn't apply to v3.5-rc2.

-hpa

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