Subject: RE: Oops on core dumping

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:22:50 +1100

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 03:05, Whitney, John wrote:
> Vincent,
>
> This looks like the same problem (application core dumps, caused in dump_fpu()) that I posted a patch for last week.  Look in the archives for my solution.  (basically, dump_fpu() is getting a NULL "regs" argument, and then referencing off of it.)

As you may have seen in my comment, this doesn't work on SMP as
last_task_used_math isn't used there.

I suppose we could unconditionally use "current" in this case
though...

Ben.

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