From: Paolo Galtieri Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:34:38 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] ppc: fix floating point register corruption X-Git-Tag: v2.6.15-rc4~4^2~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f232a125bf86b0dae09f8ea4a0553535cf6b658;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] ppc: fix floating point register corruption I recently discovered a bug on PPC which causes the floating point registers to get corrupted when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. The problem occurred while running a multi threaded Java application that does floating point. The problem could be reproduced in anywhere from 2 to 6 hours. With the patch I have included below it ran for over a week without failure. Signed-off-by: Paolo Galtieri Cc: Kumar Gala Cc: Matt Porter Cc: Tom Rini Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed