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Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

From	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes
Date	2015-08-18 02:10 +0200
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User space does not need to treat for FPU instructions, except for performance reasons, because the kernel emulates the full x87 FPU.  So it is localized to the kernel.

On August 17, 2015 4:59:18 PM PDT, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>> So when I re-introduced static allocations math-emu started working
>again, to a
>> limited degree: on a modern distro, trying to boot /bin/bash I got a
>prompt, but
>> various programs would segfault. I did not investigate it any deeper,
>I suppose
>> the FPU emulation does not go far enough for modern user-space, or
>maybe it has
>> more bugs.
>>
>
>Were you testing with just no387 or did you run a VM with SSE2 and
>such turned off?
>
>There's a *lot* of userspace that incorrectly checks for instructions
>without checking for the state support.  I've filed bugs against
>libgcc for this and they're still not fixed IIRC.
>
>--Andy

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[GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-14 09:20 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-08-14 20:30 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-14 20:50 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-08-14 21:00 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-08-14 21:10 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-14 21:20 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-08-14 21:40 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-14 21:20 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-17 10:10 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> - 2015-08-17 13:00 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-08-17 19:00 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-18 10:00 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-08-17 18:50 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-17 19:00 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-08-17 19:20 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-18 00:20 +0200
              Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-19 08:00 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-19 08:20 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-19 09:00 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-19 12:10 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> - 2015-08-18 01:50 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-17 23:10 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-18 02:00 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-18 02:10 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-18 02:10 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-18 02:20 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-18 08:00 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-08-18 08:10 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-18 10:00 +0200

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