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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] wget and Zope crashes on post-2.0.6 -testing
On 8 Jun 2005, at 22:42, Kurt Garloff wrote:
I think that should work (with the obvious kernel_ prefix), but I've
appeneded what we've gone for.
Not having a CPU manual close to my desk: What do we achieve by setting
bit 3 (TS) in CR0? Why does it help to get the FPU back to a sane
state?
When set it causes a fault whenever the FPU is accessed. We use it to
lazily initialise the FPU for the currently running process. At
context-switch time we look at the process we are descheduling and, if
it hasn;t used the FPU in its time slice, we don;t save FPU state and
we don;t set the TS bit (because we assume it must be already set).
The last point is where we can fall down: if the TS bit in fact *isn;t*
set, then we are screwed for all time. The kernel will never realise a
process is using the FPU because we will never take the TS fault,
because the TS bit is clear. Thus state doesn;t get saved/restored
during context switch and the TS bit never gets set. So its a self
perpetuating state once you're in it.
-- Keir
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