RE: X86 fpu registers in a signal handler's ucontext

[Mikael Pettersson]

Warlich, Christof writes:
 > Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
 > > The FP registers are restored lazily, but the state for this is kept in
 > > the kernel.
 > 
 > I'm not sure if I understand "lazily" in this context: Do you mean that FP
 > registers _are_ restored within the kernel, but _not_ from a (possibly modified)
 > ucontext of a userspace signal handler? If so, do you know a reason why the GP
 > registers are so nicely restored from userspace, but not the FP registers?
 >  
 > > One easy way may be to catch the FPU exception too and clear from there?
 > 
 > Hmm - I _do_ catch SIGFPE in my userspace signal handler, but I obviously
 > can't clear the FP exceptions from there. This, together with your answer
 > so far, makes me conclude that there may be no way to achieve my goal from
 > userspace, right :-(?

Write to the fpstate ->mxcsr and ->swd fields in the sigaction handler's uc_mcontext.
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