[GIT PULL] [lucid] mvl-dove: preserve VFP/NEON state around signal handlers

[Eric Miao]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Dave P. Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com> wrote:
>> From: eric.y.miao at gmail.com [mailto:eric.y.miao at gmail.com] On
>> Behalf Of Eric Miao
>> Sent: 05 February 2010 23:21
>> To: kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Cc: Dave P Martin
>> Subject: [GIT PULL] [lucid] mvl-dove: preserve VFP/NEON state
>> around signal handlers
>
> [...]
>
>> 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.
>
> Just to clarify for people's understanding, this issue is not really
> specific to NEON at all -- Xorg corrupts a register in the range d0-d7 using
> some VFP code in its signal handler.  These registers are shared between VFP
> and NEON (when present), and are part of the common VFP architecture in Dove
> and imx51 (and other ARMv7 implementations).
>

Hi Dave,

Thanks for clarifying on this. There seems to be some further update
of these two patches on linux-arm-kernel ML. I'll sort out the incremental
changes if this has been made into lucid.