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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Victor Zandy <zandy@cs.wisc.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pcroth@cs.wisc.edu,
	epaulson@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2
Date: 20 Apr 2001 12:23:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n19bs7dn.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010420145755.11087A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
In-Reply-To: "Richard B. Johnson"'s message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:07:28 -0400 (EDT)"

"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

> If it "fixes" it, there is no problem with the FPU, but with the
> 'C' runtime library which doesn't initialize the FPU to a known
> state before it uses it.

It's the kernel which initializes the FPU.  This was always the case
and necessary to implement the fast lazy FPU saving/restoring.
Processes which never use the FPU never initialize it.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-20 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-19 16:05 BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2 Victor Zandy
2001-04-19 20:18 ` Michal Jaegermann
2001-04-20 18:50 ` Victor Zandy
2001-04-20 19:07   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-20 19:20     ` Victor Zandy
2001-04-20 19:44       ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-20 19:23     ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2001-04-20 19:37       ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-20 20:20         ` Victor Zandy
2001-04-20 21:44         ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-22  1:46           ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-22  2:18             ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22  2:30               ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-22 18:39           ` David Konerding
2001-04-22 18:59             ` Alan Cox
2001-04-22 20:59 ` kees
2001-04-23 16:11 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2001-04-24 16:10   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-24 16:25     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-24 16:56     ` Christian Ehrhardt
2001-04-24 20:15       ` Michal Jaegermann
2001-04-24 19:49     ` BUG: USB/Reboot Collectively Unconscious
2001-04-24 21:41       ` Alan Cox
2001-04-25 12:37         ` Collectively Unconscious
2001-04-30 22:46           ` Alan Cox
2001-04-27 12:18         ` Collectively Unconscious
2001-04-23 18:44 ` BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2 Erik Paulson
2001-04-24  5:33 alad
2001-04-24  7:56 alad
2001-04-24  8:56 alad
2001-04-24 13:05 Victor Zandy
2001-04-24 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-24 16:47 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2001-04-24 18:09   ` Victor Zandy
2001-04-24 18:21 Victor Zandy
2001-04-24 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-24 19:17   ` Victor Zandy
2001-04-24 19:51     ` Alan Cox

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