[GIT PULL] [lucid] mvl-dove: preserve VFP/NEON state around signal handlers
Eric Miao
eric.miao at canonical.com
Fri Feb 5 23:20:51 UTC 2010
Andy,
As Dave suggested, VFP/NEON state should be preserved around signal
handlers (as described in bug 507503). Dove is less vulnerable to this bug
as it doesn't have a NEON, but it's a better to have for the VFP as well.
Please consider pull.
The following changes since commit 8fae2e5f64dba2acba1038902c2bf0bdf950e96b:
Andy Whitcroft (1):
UBUNTU: Ubuntu-2.6.32-200.7
are available in the git repository at:
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ycmiao/ubuntu-lucid.git lp507503
Imre Deak (2):
ARM: VFP: add support to sync the VFP state of the current thread
ARM: VFP: preserve the HW context when calling signal handlers
arch/arm/include/asm/ucontext.h | 19 +++-----
arch/arm/include/asm/user.h | 3 +
arch/arm/kernel/signal.c | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 46 +++++++++++++------
4 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
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