linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next v4 1/3] x86/mce: remove redundant fixup type EX_TYPE

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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 19:02:37 +0800
From: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@...wei.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	<wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	<x86@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Tony Luck
	<tony.luck@...el.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra
	<peterz@...radead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Naoya
 Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Guohanjun
	<guohanjun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v4 1/3] x86/mce: remove redundant fixup type
 EX_TYPE_COPY



在 2024/1/31 5:09, Borislav Petkov 写道:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 09:55:46PM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>> In commit 034ff37d3407 ("x86: rewrite '__copy_user_nocache' function"),
>> rewrited __copy_user_nocache() uses EX_TYPE_UACCESS instead of
>> EX_TYPE_COPY，this change does not broken the MC safe copy for
>> __copy_user_nocache(), but as a result, there's no place for EX_TYPE_COPY
>> to use. Therefore, we remove the definition of EX_TYPE_COPY.
> 
> Please use passive voice in your commit message: no "we" or "I", etc,
> and describe your changes in imperative mood.
> 
> Also, pls read section "2) Describe your changes" in
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more details.
> 
> Also, see section "Changelog" in
> Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst

OK, thanks, Improved in the next release.

> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/extable_fixup_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/extable_fixup_types.h
>> index fe6312045042..787916ec1e12 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/extable_fixup_types.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/extable_fixup_types.h
>> @@ -36,18 +36,17 @@
>>   #define	EX_TYPE_DEFAULT			 1
>>   #define	EX_TYPE_FAULT			 2
>>   #define	EX_TYPE_UACCESS			 3
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_COPY			 4
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_CLEAR_FS		 5
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_FPU_RESTORE		 6
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_BPF			 7
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_WRMSR			 8
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_RDMSR			 9
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_WRMSR_SAFE		10 /* reg := -EIO */
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_RDMSR_SAFE		11 /* reg := -EIO */
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_WRMSR_IN_MCE		12
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_RDMSR_IN_MCE		13
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_DEFAULT_MCE_SAFE	14
>> -#define	EX_TYPE_FAULT_MCE_SAFE		15
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_CLEAR_FS		 4
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_FPU_RESTORE		 5
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_BPF			 6
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_WRMSR			 7
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_RDMSR			 8
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_WRMSR_SAFE		 9 /* reg := -EIO */
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_RDMSR_SAFE		10 /* reg := -EIO */
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_WRMSR_IN_MCE		11
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_RDMSR_IN_MCE		12
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_DEFAULT_MCE_SAFE	13
>> +#define	EX_TYPE_FAULT_MCE_SAFE		14
> 
> You don't need to renumber them - all you need to do is to comment it
> out:
> 
> /* unused, was: #define EX_TYPE_COPY 		4 */

OK.

Thanks.
Tong.

>