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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, German Tischler <tanis@gaspode.franken.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Mini <mini@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SSE 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10210051744170.28837-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <15775.21658.385069.581909@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Daniel Eischen writes:
>  > > > On further reflection, this DEFINITELY has to do with the work done on 
>  > > > npx(4)/signals/etc. in the past week.  I _must_ be getting a GPF because the 
>  > > > fpu state that it's attempting to restore is corrupt (i.e.: the control word 
>  > > > is incorrect), so something is not being initialized somewhere that it used 
>  > > > to be, or is being initialized incorrectly.
>  > > 
>  > > The last few commits to machdep.c bother me, rev 1.539 in particular.
>  > > 
>  > > If you are in a position to be able to quickly test it, it would be great
>  > > to know if backing out the last few changes fixes this, and which change in
>  > > particular.
>  > 
>  > There have been two commits since 1.539; what version of machdep.c
>  > is being used?
> 
> 1.539 works.  1.540 crashes.  The failure mode is:

Bruce and I had a miscommunication over the setting of a flag.
It turns out that we can't easily restore the FPU state from
the PCB if the one in the ucontext is bad, anyways.  Try the
following patch:

Index: i386/i386/machdep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /opt/d/CVS/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.541
diff -u -r1.541 machdep.c
--- i386/i386/machdep.c	5 Oct 2002 14:36:14 -0000	1.541
+++ i386/i386/machdep.c	5 Oct 2002 20:10:53 -0000
@@ -2222,12 +2222,17 @@
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * There is no valid FPU state in *mcp, so use the saved
-		 * state in the PCB if there is one.  XXX the test for
-		 * whether there is one seems to be quite broken.  We
-		 * forcibly drop the state in sendsig().
+		 * state in the PCB if there is one.  XXX We can't easily
+		 * check to see if the state in the PCB is valid or not;
+		 * there could have been nested signals, and for other
+		 * reasons.  For now, we'll just leave the FPU state
unchanged.
 		 */
-		if ((td->td_pcb->pcb_flags & PCB_NPXINITDONE) != 0)
+#if 0
+		if ((td->td_pcb->pcb_flags & PCB_NPXINITDONE) == 0)
 			npxsetregs(td, &td->td_pcb->pcb_save);
+#else
+		;  /* in case no compat is defined. */
+#endif
 #endif
 #if !defined(COMPAT_FREEBSD4) && !defined(COMPAT_43)
 		return (EINVAL);



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