[PATCH] i386: Ignore masked FPU exceptions
authorChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:55:41 +0000 (04:55 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:59:04 +0000 (09:59 -0700)
commit33333373c40633cec8791a284e84e4b116522c8f
tree4f2572d98f9ecf21eac072e9de748c2c69062432
parentddbf9ef385bfbef897210733abfb73cb9b94ecec
[PATCH] i386: Ignore masked FPU exceptions

Masked FPU exceptions should obviously not happen in the first place,
but if they do, ignoring them seems to be the right thing to do.

Although there is no documentation available for Cyrix MII, I did find
erratum F-7 for Winchip C6, "FPU instruction may result in spurious
exception under certain conditions" which seems to indicate that this
can happen.

That would also explain the behaviour Ondrej Zary reported on the MII.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c