[RFC PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: VFP: Save / restore VFP state on the signal handler path

Imre Deak imre.deak at nokia.com
Thu Feb 4 16:37:12 EST 2010


This fixes a VFP corruption problem in a process's main thread, when
both the main thread and a signal handler triggered for the process
uses floating point ops.

Changes since v1:
- save / restore VFP exception registers as well, to support user
  space exception handling/VFP emulation.
- extend the existing ptrace VFP struct with the exception regs,
  so that the VFP frame is equivalent for the ptrace and signal
  handler case.

--Imre



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