[PATCH 0/2] Preserve the VFP state across the fork() call

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Feb 14 05:37:33 EST 2011


The VFP state should be copied to the child process during the fork()
system call. This is important because the d16-d31 registers are callee
saved and the compiler may use them for preserving data across function
calls.


Catalin Marinas (2):
      ARM: Introduce THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY for copy_thread() hooks
      ARM: Preserve the VFP state during fork


 arch/arm/include/asm/thread_notify.h |    1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/process.c            |    2 ++
 arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c             |   34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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Catalin




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