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

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Date:	Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:57:26 -0800
From:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	"elliott@....com" <elliott@....com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHV5 3/3] x86, ras: Add __mcsafe_copy() function to recover
 from machine checks

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>> We could make one of them 31-bits (since even an "allyesconfig" kernel
>>> is still much smaller than a gigabyte) to free a bit for a flag. But there
>>> are those external tools to pre-sort exception tables that would all
>>> need to be fixed too.
>
> Wait, why?  The external tools sort by source address, and we'd
> squeeze the flag into the target address, no?

I was thinking that we'd need to recompute the fixup when we move
the entry to its new sorted location. So that:

 ex_fixup_addr(const struct exception_table_entry *x)
 {
          return (unsigned long)&x->fixup + x->fixup;
 }

will get the right value.  Maybe this would still work out
if the fixup is a 31-bit value plus a flag, but the external
tool thinks it is a 32-bit value?  I'd have to ponder that.

-Tony
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