On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:32:08AM -0800, NSRT Mail account. wrote:
> Ben:
>
> The topic of FPU usage in OSS is discussed at length throughout the
> comments here:
> http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html
>
> Based on what Hannu the main developer of OSS says, what OSS is
> doing currently is safe, despite how it may look otherwise. OSS is
> designed to internally save the current state of the FPU and restore
> it itself within a single use, and works properly with current
> versions of Linux.
Saving the registers (whether in a standard place or a private buffer)
is not sufficient. See:
commit 5b1cbac37798805c1fee18c8cebe5c0a13975b17
Author: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon Feb 13 13:56:14 2012 -0800
i387: make irq_fpu_usable() tests more robust
and the many following changes that went into Linux 3.3.
Ben.
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