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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Elliott@pd.tnic, Robert <elliott@hpe.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>, X86-ML <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHV3 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover from machine checks
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:37:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151224133713.GC4128@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8MBbJX+3SW7CxqWT1ghzzbdV9pgVxXNejg4XC1=sDFY3Xgpw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:46:20PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> > I know, memcpy returns the ptr to @dest like a parrot
> 
> Maybe I need to change the name to remove the
> "memcpy" substring to avoid this confusion. How
> about "mcsafe_copy()"? Perhaps with a "__" prefix
> to point out it is a building block that will get various
> wrappers around it??
> 
> Dan wants a copy_from_nvdimm() that either completes
> the copy, or indicates where a machine check occurred.
> 
> I'm going to want a copy_from_user() that has two fault
> options (user gave a bad address -> -EFAULT, or the
> source address had an uncorrected error -> SIGBUS).

Sounds like standard kernel design to me. :)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-24 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-16 16:39 [PATCHV3 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses poison Tony Luck
2015-12-16  1:29 ` [PATCHV3 1/3] x86, ras: Add new infrastructure for machine check fixup tables Tony Luck
2015-12-16 17:55   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-16 22:51     ` Luck, Tony
2015-12-17 16:22       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-21 18:18   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-21 19:16     ` Dan Williams
2015-12-21 20:15       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-22 11:13   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-16  1:29 ` [PATCHV3 2/3] x86, ras: Extend machine check recovery code to annotated ring0 areas Tony Luck
2015-12-22 11:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-16  1:30 ` [PATCHV3 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover from machine checks Tony Luck
2015-12-22 11:13   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-22 19:38     ` Tony Luck
2015-12-23 12:58       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-23 19:31         ` Dan Williams
2015-12-23 20:46           ` Tony Luck
2015-12-24 13:37             ` Borislav Petkov [this message]

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