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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:59:17 +0000 From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <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() > > > 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() I like "memcpy_trap" - thanks Peter. I'll redo this part with all the other fixes suggested by Ingo. -Tony
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