Re: Kernel oops with 2.6.26, padlock and ipsec: probably problem with fpu state changes

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Aug 11 2008 - 20:52:50 EST


On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:48:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> >Sorry, the kernel TS state is what I meant. I'm definitely not
> >advocating the saving of the kernel FPU state. This is only for
> >things like the VIA (which also exists for other processors, see
> >the xor SSE stuff in include/asm-x86).
>
> No, there you are actually using the FPU state (which includes the SSE
> state.)

Right, well at least VIA could still use this and it wouldn't
hurt others that much.

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