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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 16/33] Add support for Xen to entry.S.



On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> +#ifndef CONFIG_XEN
>       movl %cr0, %eax
>       testl $0x4, %eax                # EM (math emulation bit)
> -     jne device_not_available_emulate
> -     preempt_stop
> -     call math_state_restore
> -     jmp ret_from_exception
> -device_not_available_emulate:
> +     je device_available_emulate
>       pushl $0                        # temporary storage for ORIG_EIP
>       CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET 4
>       call math_emulate
>       addl $4, %esp
>       CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -4
> +     jmp ret_from_exception
> +device_available_emulate:
> +#endif


Hi,

can you explain what this chunk is for? It appears to be for the non-xen
case due to the ifndef, yet it seems to visibly change the code for
that... that deserves an explanation for sure ...

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven


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