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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	elliott@hpe.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] x86: Add classes to exception tables
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 09:48:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFx7_sP_R+n6c3Ew=KVcwJwwgXhB57pSG9Kh24oiAqd+vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160106173515.GA25980@agluck-desk.sc.intel.com>

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Linus, Peter, Ingo, Thomas: Can we head this direction? The code is cleaner
> and more flexible. Or should we stick with Andy's clever way to squeeze a
> couple of "class" bits into the fixup field of the exception table?

I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody.

So I think Borislav's patch has the advantage of being pretty
straightforward and allowing arbitrary fixups, in case we end up
having localized special cases..

               Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05  0:05 [PATCH v7 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses poison Tony Luck
2015-12-30 17:59 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] x86: Add classes to exception tables Tony Luck
2016-01-06 12:33   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-06 17:35     ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-06 17:48       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2016-01-06 17:54     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-06 17:59       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-06 18:07         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-06 19:42           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-07 12:11             ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-07 18:22               ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-08  1:45               ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-08 10:37                 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08 16:29                   ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-08 17:20                     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-08 22:29                     ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-08  5:30               ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-08 10:41                 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-06 12:36   ` Borislav Petkov
2015-12-31 19:40 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] x86, mce: Check for faults tagged in EXTABLE_CLASS_FAULT exception table entries Tony Luck
2015-12-31 19:43 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Tony Luck
2016-01-06  4:42   ` Dan Williams
2016-01-06  7:06     ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-06  7:11       ` Dan Williams
2016-01-06 16:37         ` Dan Williams
2016-01-06 16:57           ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-06 17:05             ` Dan Williams

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