On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 10:35:25AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I love this and we should have done it long ago, but I also worry that
> every time we've messed with the FP state, we've had interesting bugs.
Tell me about it. Our FPU code is one helluva contraption.
> Which is obviously why we didn't do this long ago.
>
> Has this gone through lots of testing, particularly with things like
> FP signal handling and old machines that don't necessarily have
> anything but the most basic FP state (ie Pentium class etc)?
Right, so I ran it on the bunch of boxes I have here, the oldest is a K8
which has:
[ 0.000000] x86/fpu: x87 FPU will use FXSAVE
and it looked ok. Ingo ran it on his fleet too, AFAIR.
Lemme see if I can dig out something older at work.
> I've pulled it, but I'd still like to feel safer about it after-the-fact ;)
Yeah.
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