linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86

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Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:32:23 -0500
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef
 CONFIG_X86_32

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:20:37 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org> wrote:

> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ void math_error(void __user *ip)
> >  
> >  	err = swd & ~cwd & 0x3f;
> >  
> > -#if CONFIG_X86_32
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> >  	if (!err)
> >  		return;
> >  #endif
> 
> Applied to tip:x86/fpu, thanks.
> 
> Andi: you might have a perspective on this: in math_error() we bail out
> if there is no error on i386, but not on x86-64.  I am rather assuming
> that is because it simply can't happen on x86-64 (no IRQ 13 bullshit) so
> it wasn't necessary?
> 

Some 32-bit x86 clones generate math error interrupts when there is no
actual error.
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