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Message-ID: <46D5C552.1060307@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:13:22 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To: Clark Cooper <clark.cooper@...il.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Caught SIGFPE exceptions aren't reset
On 08/25/2007 01:31 PM, Clark Cooper wrote:
>> Your handler can do this by masking
>> exceptions, changing the operands of the failed FP instruction,
>> or by changing the PC so that the failed instruction is skipped
>> (your handler may want to emulate the instruction in this case).
>
> Given the current SIGFPE handling in the kernel, a userland handler
> CAN'T mask the exceptions or clear the exception flags. This is
> demonstrated in my example program where I call both feclearexception
> and fedisableexception in the handler. The reason these don't work is
> that any change you make to these FPU registers is overwritten with
> the saved FPU context on return from the signal handler. Changing the
> PC won't help since the exception flag is still set and unmasked on
> signal return.
Just change the saved FPU context before returning. (It's on the stack
when your handler is running.)
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