linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/mce: Add _ASM_EXTABLE

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Message-ID: <20201005163414.GG21151@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 5 Oct 2020 18:34:14 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/mce: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_CPY for copy user access

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 04:26:07PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> From: Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>
> 
> _ASM_EXTABLE_UA is a general exception entry to record the exception fixup
> for all exception spots between kernel and user space access.
> 
> To enable recovery from machine checks while coping data from user
> addresses we need to be able to distinguish the places that are

Who's "we"?

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    Boris.

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