Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jan 2016 09:48:02 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] x86, mce: Add __mcsafe_copy() | From | Tony Luck <> |
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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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