Message-ID: <3AF85641.60AEFE74@home.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 16:25:37 -0400 From: PM X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: file asm/bugs.h in kernel 2.4.4 References: <3AF57A45 DOT 1548B9D4 AT gmx DOT de> <3AF57B98 DOT 3C49CEA7 AT valinux DOT com> <3AF57E66 DOT 42E93EC2 AT gmx DOT de> <20010506203526 DOT B25150 AT cerebro DOT laendle> <20010507003518 DOT A144 AT greguric DOT stud DOT rz DOT uni-frankfurt DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com how do i unsubscribe to this list? Tomislav Greguric wrote: > Hi Marc! > > On Sun, 06 May 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > > It means that the fxsr struct is misaligned (becauzse of compiler bugs ;). > > Instead of crashing at runtime the kernel checks for this. > > Enabling Symmetric Multi Processing (CONFIG_SMP=y, which also > automatically sets CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y) in the kernel seems either > to fix the alignment or to circumvent the check for misalignment. > > /tg -- Paul M. True, True