Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] UML fixes for 4.4-rc5 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Wed, 9 Dec 2015 09:44:32 +0100 |
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Linus,
Am 09.12.2015 um 02:35 schrieb Linus Torvalds: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote: >> >> This pull request contains various bug fixes, most of them are >> fall out from the merge window. >> >> Richard Weinberger (2): >> um: Fix fpstate handling > > Ugh. This is very ugly. It's apparently the result of commit > 530e5c827182 ("x86/headers: Make sigcontext pointers bit independent") > and apparently nobody noticed the uml fallout. > > I've pulled, but I wanted the x86 people involved to be aware of this > ugly corner. I wonder if there might be some way for uml to continue > to use that fpstate entry as a pointer, at least when the wordsize > matches (which it will)?
I agree. One way to get rid of the ugliness would be rewriting UML's FP code. The code is very old and doing it like x86 does would be a good thing anyway. But that's nothing I'll do at this stage of development. That's material for the next merge window.
Thanks, //richard
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