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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:34:20 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy()
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 09:21:07AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > +#ifndef CONFIG_UML
> > 
> > Why is this UML quirk needed? No other memcpy functions have it. Theoretically UML 
> > could introduce the notion of #MC interruption.
> 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/56B7AEEE.5070504@nod.at

Does the build fail - or is it just an unused function? If the latter then I'd 
rather leave the #ifdef out.

Thanks,

	Ingo