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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:00:03 +0100
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
To: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Disable preemption during prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE,
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Paul Burton wrote:

> Whilst a PR_SET_FP_MODE prctl is performed there are decisions made
> based upon whether the task is executing on the current CPU. This may
> change if we're preempted, so disable preemption to avoid such changes
> for the lifetime of the mode switch.

Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>

 Thanks!

  Maciej