Hi Arun,
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Arun KS <getarunks@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Mudongliang,
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:01 AM, 慕冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com> wrote:
I know there are rarely float-point operations! What's the exception?
In the linux kernel, how does it handle the float-point operations in the >userland?
Most of the userspace programs do not use FP instructions. So by default floating point engine is turned off during a context switch. When a process executes floating point instruction, an undefined exception is generated. Exception handler enables the floating point engine and jump back to the same instruction which caused the exception so that it will get re executed with FP engine on.
Is this somehow related to the platform in which linux runs? If the FP operations are valid, then will that still generate the exception or it does a context switch, turns on FP engine and re-executed?
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