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Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover from machine checks

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* Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

> Using __copy_user_nocache() as inspiration create a memory copy
> routine for use by kernel code with annotations to allow for
> recovery from machine checks.
> 
> Notes:
> 1) Unlike the original we make no attempt to copy all the bytes
>    up to the faulting address. The original achieves that by
>    re-executing the failing part as a byte-by-byte copy,
>    which will take another page fault. We don't want to have
>    a second machine check!
> 2) Likewise the return value for the original indicates exactly
>    how many bytes were not copied. Instead we provide the physical
>    address of the fault (thanks to help from do_machine_check()

> +extern phys_addr_t mcsafe_memcpy(void *dst, const void __user *src,
> +				unsigned size);

So what's the longer term purpose, where will mcsafe_memcpy() be used?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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[RFC PATCH 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses poison Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-09 19:50 +0100
  [PATCH 2/3] x86, ras: Extend machine check recovery code to annotated  ring0 areas Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-09 19:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, ras: Extend machine check recovery code to  annotated ring0 areas Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-11-10 12:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, ras: Extend machine check recovery code to  annotated ring0 areas "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-10 23:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, ras: Extend machine check recovery code to  annotated ring0 areas Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-11-11 12:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, ras: Extend machine check recovery code to  annotated ring0 areas Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2015-11-12 05:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, ras: Extend machine check recovery code to  annotated ring0 areas "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-12 21:00 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover from  machine checks Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-09 19:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover  from machine checks Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-11-12 09:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover  from machine checks "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-12 21:10 +0100
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    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses  poison "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-10 23:00 +0100
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        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses  poison "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-11 22:50 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses  poison Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-11-11 23:30 +0100
            RE: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses  poison "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-11 23:40 +0100

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