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Re: "Hijacking" a PCU.



On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:27:11PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> That's probably due to memcpy()/memset().  Maybe the FPU in use bits 
> should be cleared at the end of memcpy() and memset() so the kernel 
> doesn't have to save the state.

I don't think we realy check those correctly on all paths - the X ffb
driver used to do something like that after VIS operations and we did
not deal properly - time to check again fix it.

Would be interesting to redo statistics after that.

Martin


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