From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boris Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCHV5 3/3] x86, ras: Add __mcsafe_copy() function to recover from machine checks Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 14:17:37 +0100 Message-ID: <6c0b3214-f120-47ee-b7fe-677b4f27f039@email.android.com> References: <20151224214632.GF4128@pd.tnic> <20151225114937.GA862@pd.tnic> <5FBC1CF1-095B-466D-85D6-832FBFA98364@intel.com> <20151226103252.GA21988@pd.tnic> <20151227100919.GA19398@nazgul.tnic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Tony Luck , linux-nvdimm , X86 ML , "elliott@hpe.com" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Andrew Morton , "Williams, Dan J" , Ingo Molnar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-mm.kvack.org Andy Lutomirski 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? -- Sent from a small device: formatting sux and brevity is inevitable.