From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Robert <elliott@hpe.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy()
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:33:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrVRgaWS86wq4B6oZbEY5_ODb3Nh5OeE9vvdGdds6j_pYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4hAenpeqPsj7Rd0Un_SgDpm+CjqH3EK72ho-=zZFvG7wA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> ERMS?
>>>
>>> It's the fast string extension, aka Enhanced REP MOV STOS. On CPUs
>>> with that feature (and not disabled via MSR), plain ol' rep movs is
>>> the fastest way to copy bytes. I think this includes all Intel CPUs
>>> from SNB onwards.
>>
>> Ah ... very fast at copying .. but currently not machine check recoverable.
>
> Hmm, I assume for the pmem driver I'll want to check at runtime if the
> cpu has machine check recovery and fall back to the faster copy if
> it's not available?
Shouldn't that logic live in the mcsafe_copy routine itself rather
than being delegated to callers?
--Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-09 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-09 0:04 [PATCH v8 0/3] Machine check recovery when kernel accesses poison Tony Luck
2015-12-31 19:40 ` [PATCH v8 2/3] x86, mce: Check for faults tagged in EXTABLE_CLASS_FAULT exception table entries Tony Luck
2016-01-08 20:49 ` [PATCH v8 1/3] x86: Expand exception table to allow new handling options Tony Luck
2016-01-09 1:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-09 3:39 ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-09 4:31 ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-09 6:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-11 23:09 ` Brian Gerst
2016-01-11 23:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-11 23:48 ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-09 17:45 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-09 18:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-09 19:51 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-09 22:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-10 1:15 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-11 0:25 ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-08 21:18 ` [PATCH v8 3/3] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() Tony Luck
2016-01-09 1:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-09 17:48 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-09 17:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-09 19:39 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-09 22:15 ` Dan Williams
2016-01-09 22:33 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2016-01-10 0:23 ` Dan Williams
2016-01-10 1:40 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-10 11:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-11 10:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-13 23:22 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-14 4:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-30 0:35 ` Tony Luck
2016-01-30 10:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-01 23:10 ` Tony Luck
2016-02-01 23:16 ` Dan Williams
2016-01-12 0:26 ` Luck, Tony
2016-01-12 0:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-12 0:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
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