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No, it sounds like it needs the kernel not to corrupt the value. There is nothing wrong with leaving the value in the register.
by asveikau 7y ago
No, it sounds like it needs the kernel not to corrupt the value. There is nothing wrong with leaving the value in the register.
- wahern 7y agoI believe the aforementioned pointer caching is in the kernel--it's the pointer to the FP register state which is cached across preemption points in the kernel.
- asveikau 7y agoOk I see, that's a good point. Was not spelled out this well in the bug tracker comment. (If it is now it wasn't when I read it.)