Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86-32: Split cache flush handler from simd handler

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/19/2010 09:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Ah, guess it was even older than I first realized ... I should have
> searched for the string "cache flush denied" instead.
> 
> Sounds like we should do three things:
> 
> a) update the comment to actually reflect what is going on;
> b) compile it out for > 486;
> c) report the error as trap 13 rather than 19.
> 

Actually what we should do is recognize that this is nothing other than
a misdirected #GP, and as a result send the fault down the #GP handler
(do_general_protection)... there really isn't any need for a special
routine at all.

	-hpa
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