From ddf5f75a16b3e7460ffee881795aa168dffcd0cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:30:33 +0200 Subject: [POWERPC] disable floating point exceptions for init Floating point exceptions should not be enabled by default, as this setting impacts the performance on some CPUs, in particular the Cell BE. Since the bits are inherited from parent processes, the place to change the default is the thread struct used for init. glibc sets this up correctly per thread in its fesetenv function, so user space should not be impacted by this setting. None of the other common libc implementations (uClibc, dietlibc, newlib, klibc) has support for fp exceptions, so they are unlikely to be hit by this either. There is a small risk that somebody wrote their own application that manually sets the fpscr bits instead of calling fesetenv, without changing the MSR bits as well. Those programs will break with this change. It probably makes sense to change glibc in the future to be more clever about FE bits, so that when running on a CPU where this is expensive, it disables exceptions ASAP, while it keeps them enabled on CPUs where running with exceptions on is cheaper than changing the state often. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- include/asm-powerpc/processor.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/asm-powerpc') diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/processor.h b/include/asm-powerpc/processor.h index d2c2c95f913b..22e54a2a6604 100644 --- a/include/asm-powerpc/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-powerpc/processor.h @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ struct thread_struct { .fs = KERNEL_DS, \ .fpr = {0}, \ .fpscr = { .val = 0, }, \ - .fpexc_mode = MSR_FE0|MSR_FE1, \ + .fpexc_mode = 0, \ } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3