>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:22:59 -0800, "Seth, Rohit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>>>>> said:
>
>   Rohit> We are also thinking of reseting the mfh bit on every syscall
>   Rohit> entry as an optimization.
>
>   Rohit> Comments?

David Mosberger wrote on Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:51 PM
> Sounds OK with me.  We should delete this comment from process.c then,
> ....
> and change:
>
> #define THREAD_FLAGS_TO_CLEAR (IA64_THREAD_FPH_VALID | IA64_THREAD_DBG_VALID \
>                                | IA64_THREAD_PM_VALID)
>
> to:
>
> #define THREAD_FLAGS_TO_CLEAR (IA64_THREAD_DBG_VALID | IA64_THREAD_PM_VALID)

We would rather not to change THREAD_FLAGS_TO_CLEAR definition.  mfh bit in 
child
pt_regs is cleared right above where the comment is.  I think it is better as is
so that child thread fph partition stays invalidated.

- Ken


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