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authorGeorge G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>2009-04-01 20:27:18 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-04-01 22:17:50 +0100
commitf2255be8126e86142901c61dd482c1c2a5ffdda7 (patch)
treea59ff8fecbbf30a7a1e33f97b59e1ed3cd38c018 /Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt
parentfe68e68f6a379d317a87ae24de050a65b11ea1fb (diff)
[ARM] 5440/1: Fix VFP state corruption due to preemption during VFP exceptions
We've observed that ARM VFP state can be corrupted during VFP exception handling when PREEMPT is enabled. The exact conditions are difficult to reproduce but appear to occur during VFP exception handling when a task causes a VFP exception which is handled via VFP_bounce and is then preempted by yet another task which in turn causes yet another VFP exception. Since the VFP_bounce code is not preempt safe, VFP state then becomes corrupt. In order to prevent preemption from occuring while handling a VFP exception, this patch disables preemption while handling VFP exceptions. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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