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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:35:46 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:19:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I think the whole notion of mcsafe here is 'wrong'. This copy variant simply > > reports the kind of trap that happened (#PF or #MC) and could arguably be > > extended to include more types if the hardware were to generate more. > > What would a better name be? memcpy_ret() or so? Yeah, uhmm.. naming. More options from the lack of inspiration department: memcpy_trap() memcpy_ex()
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