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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/vfp')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c index 0797cb528b46..bbf3da012afd 100644 --- a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c +++ b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static struct notifier_block vfp_notifier_block = { * Raise a SIGFPE for the current process. * sicode describes the signal being raised. */ -void vfp_raise_sigfpe(unsigned int sicode, struct pt_regs *regs) +static void vfp_raise_sigfpe(unsigned int sicode, struct pt_regs *regs) { siginfo_t info; @@ -489,8 +489,11 @@ void vfp_flush_hwstate(struct thread_info *thread) /* * VFP hardware can lose all context when a CPU goes offline. - * Safely clear our held state when a CPU has been killed, and - * re-enable access to VFP when the CPU comes back online. + * As we will be running in SMP mode with CPU hotplug, we will save the + * hardware state at every thread switch. We clear our held state when + * a CPU has been killed, indicating that the VFP hardware doesn't contain + * a threads VFP state. When a CPU starts up, we re-enable access to the + * VFP hardware. * * Both CPU_DYING and CPU_STARTING are called on the CPU which * is being offlined/onlined. |