Re: [PATCHV5 3/3] x86, ras: Add __mcsafe_copy() function to recover from machine checks

Boris Petkov
2015-12-27T13:17:48Z

Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>You certainly can, but it doesn't scale well to multiple users of
>similar mechanisms. It also prevents you from using the same
>mechanism in anything that could be inlined, which is IMO kind of
>unfortunate.

Well, but the bit 31 game doesn't make it any better than the bit 63 fun IMO. Should the exception table entry maybe grow a u32 flags instead?

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