Touching of the floating point state in a kernel debugger must be NMI-safe, specifically math_state_restore() must be able to deal with being called out of an NMI context. In order to do that reliably, the context switch code must take care to not leave a window open where the current task's TS_USEDFPU flag and CR0.TS could get out of sync. From: Jan Beulich (actual patch attached)