Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] arm64: fpsimd: Fix bad si_code for undiagnosed SIGFPE

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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 01:44:19PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
> > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:27:16 -0600
> >
> >> Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >> 
> >>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 03:13:08PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>> However, the purpose of this as an RFC was to get feedback on whether
> >>> adding FPE_UNKNOWN is considered acceptable at all from an API
> >>> perspective -- the precise number doesn't matter for that discussion.
> >>>
> >>> Do you have any view on this?
> >> 
> >> That seems as good a solution as any too me.  It is reality and it
> >> happens in the code and there are several places of the same form I
> >> would use it, just to get rid of the FPE_FIXME.
> >
> > Eric, feel free to do something similar on Sparc.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> This sounds like a good solution for this weird corner case, that
> appears on multiple architectures.

OK, I'll rebase my patches onto your tree (though trivial here) and
repost.

I'm still waiting for feeback on the Arm specifics, but FPE_UNKNOWN
could be picked up independently of that.

Cheers
---Dave



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