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Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy()

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy()
Date 2016-02-18 11:40 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:19:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > I think the whole notion of mcsafe here is 'wrong'. This copy variant simply 
> > reports the kind of trap that happened (#PF or #MC) and could arguably be 
> > extended to include more types if the hardware were to generate more.
> 
> What would a better name be? memcpy_ret() or so?

Yeah, uhmm.. naming. More options from the lack of inspiration department:

  memcpy_trap()
  memcpy_ex()

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[PATCH v11 0/4] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses poison Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-02-17 19:30 +0100
  [PATCH v11 4/4] x86: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for  machine check recovery Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-02-17 19:30 +0100
    [tip:x86/asm] x86/cpufeature:   Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery tip-bot for Tony Luck <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-02-18 11:30 +0100
  [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-02-17 19:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-18 09:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-18 11:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-02-18 11:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-18 11:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-18 11:40 +0100
            RE: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-02-18 16:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-19 09:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-19 09:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-19 11:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-18 11:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-02-18 11:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-18 19:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-02-18 11:40 +0100
      [PATCH v12] x86, mce: Add memcpy_trap() "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-02-18 22:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v12] x86, mce: Add memcpy_trap() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-19 10:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v13] x86, mce: Add memcpy_trap() "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-02-19 19:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-18 19:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-02-18 20:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-18 21:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-02-18 22:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-18 20:00 +0100

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