FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu

[Rostislav Krasny]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:19:29 -0700
Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> > Other possible solution is making the fpu_clean_state() optional by
> > something like following:
> > 
> > #ifdef BUG_FXSAVE
> > #define fpu_clean_state() __fpu_clean_state()
> > #else
> > #define fpu_clean_state() ;
> > #endif
> > 
> > ... and including "options BUG_FXSAVE" to GENERIC.
> 
> Yes, this is probably the right solution.  My priority was to fix the
> bug; optimizing performance comes second.

Ok. Is this solution going to be done some day? I could try to make a
patch but I'm not familiar with the build infrastructure internals.

P.S. what is a better option name: "options BUG_FXSAVE" or "options AMD_FXSAVE"?