Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]
Groups > linux.kernel > #1337435
| From | "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | RE: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() |
| Date | 2016-02-18 16:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <r3ydI-77V-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <r3f1p-1O1-45@gated-at.bofh.it> <r3s8j-2Pa-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <r3txo-3CY-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <r3u0r-44o-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <r3ua5-49t-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
> > > 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() I like "memcpy_trap" - thanks Peter. I'll redo this part with all the other fixes suggested by Ingo. -Tony
Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread
[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
csiph-web