Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262109AbUCaTLD (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:11:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262365AbUCaTLD (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:11:03 -0500 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:22414 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262109AbUCaTLB (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:11:01 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16491.6076.504437.267920@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:10:52 -0800 To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: Alex Williamson , davidm@hpl.hp.com, Denis Vlasenko , ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de, linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.4.21 on Itanium2: floating-point assist fault at ip 400000000062ada1, isr 0000020000000008 In-Reply-To: References: <406AE0D5.10359.1930261@localhost> <200403311900.17293.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <16491.2184.253165.545651@napali.hpl.hp.com> <1080757433.2326.32.camel@patsy.fc.hp.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 15 >>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:53:13 -0500 (EST), "Richard B. Johnson" said: Richard> The power-on or hardware-reset default for the ix86 FPU Richard> is to attempt to handle div 0 errors transparently. I must be missing something. So far I haven't seen anything that would suggest the FPSWA faults were due to infinities. I'd guess that it's much more likely that they're due to denormals. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/