On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:13:32AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 15:40 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > > Ideas? > > emulate the one instruction?
In kernel? Generically? Don't think its that easy for userspace -- you have the full gamut of instructions to emulate (fp, vector, etc); further, the instruction could itself cause a page fault and the like.
