Re: [RFT PATCH v1 1/7] arm64: fix possible invalid FPSIMDinitialization state

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 09:04:41AM +0100, Jiang Liu wrote:
> From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If context switching happens during executing fpsimd_flush_thread(),
> stale value in FPSIMD registers will be saved into current thread's
> fpsimd_state by fpsimd_thread_switch(). That may cause invalid
> initialization state for the new process, so disable preemption
> when executing fpsimd_flush_thread().

Good catch.

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Catalin
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