Re: [PATCH] Lazy FPU handling in ptrace

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:11:53 +0100


Andi wrote:

>(untested, but obviously correct ;-)
>-Andi
>
Famous last words.
The patch is not needed: __switch_to unlazies the fpu state of the
previous thread. ptrace PTRACE_SETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPXREGS only
operate on stopped threads, thus it's guaranteed that the fpu state is
stored in the task structure.

--
    Manfred

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