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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 3/3] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy()
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    On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
    > On Jan 8, 2016 4:19 PM, "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
    >>
    >> Make use of the EXTABLE_FAULT exception table entries. This routine
    >> returns a structure to indicate the result of the copy:
    >
    > Perhaps this is silly, but could we make this feature depend on ERMS
    > and thus make the code a lot simpler?

    ERMS?

    > Also, what's the sfence for? You don't seem to be using any
    > non-temporal operations.

    Ah - left over from the original function that this
    was cloned from (which did use non-temporal
    operations). Will delete.

    -Tony

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