Subject: Re: Using Floating Point in kernel... is bad, okay?
To: Bill Stouder-Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/14/2007 22:36:34
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:11:12PM -0700, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
> 
> What probably happened was that the tool that used to query this info used
> the FPU in userland, and wasn't performing an FP computation across the
> call that requested information. Thus the FPU (probably) was live, and
> application didn't notice that the FPU registers changed values.

Could a DIAGNOSTIC kernel be set to fault on FP use in kernel ?

	David

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