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To: "Christian Ehrhardt" <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
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Subject: Re: BUG: Global FPU corruption in 2.2
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From: Victor Zandy <zandy@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 2001 13:09:04 -0500
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"Christian Ehrhardt" <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de> writes:
> Victor: Could you try to reproduce the system wide corruption if you
> add an explicit call to stts(); at the very end of __switch_to?
> This should prevent the FPU corruption from spreading.

After adding this call, I cannot reproduce the global corruption.
There is still occasional local corruption of individual pi processes
while pt is running.

Vic




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