[PATCH 0/3] Fix VFP thread handling

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sat Jul 9 12:32:07 EDT 2011


There are three holes in the current VFP thread handling:

1. Migration of a thread between CPUs, and then calling vfp_sync_state()
   on the old CPU.

2. When a thread is copied, we weren't ensuring that a reload happened.

3. When a thread is flushed, we weren't ensuring that a reload happened.

These are described in detail in the commit message for patch 3.

These are not targetted at this -rc because it's too risky to put them
in this close to -final.  Once they have been reviewed and tested, they
can be applied to stable trees.



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