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

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Message-ID: <CAA9_cmcGbnzKLufKwT-LE_=82L2PTJ8bjfQCkPUhMxDA31ixmg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2015 13:30:19 -0800
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	"Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	"linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, ras: Add mcsafe_memcpy() function to recover
 from machine checks

[ adding nvdimm folks ]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> * Luck, Tony <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:53:13AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> > > +extern phys_addr_t mcsafe_memcpy(void *dst, const void __user *src,
>> > > +                         unsigned size);
>> >
>> > So what's the longer term purpose, where will mcsafe_memcpy() be used?
>>
>> The initial plan is to use this for file systems backed by NVDIMMs. They will
>> have a large amount of memory, and we have a practical recovery path - return
>> -EIO just like legacy h/w.
>>
>> We can look for other places in the kernel where we read large amounts of memory
>> and have some idea how to recover if the memory turns out to be bad.
>
> I see, that's sensible!
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Ingo

Is that an "Acked-by"?  I'd like to pull this plus Vishal's
gendisk-badblocks patches into a unified libnvdimm-error-handling
branch.  We're looking to have v4.5 able to avoid or survive nvdimm
media errors through the pmem driver and DAX paths.
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