Re: use memcpy_mcsafe() for copy_to_iter() (was: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Series short description)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 15:20:33 EST


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 8:52 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I think "happy" is a strong word when it comes to x86 machine check
> handling. My interpretation is that he and Andy acquiesced that this
> is about the best we can do with dax+mce as things stand today.

Yeah. I definitely wouldn't say "happy", but perhaps "resigned". There's
nothing horrible going on, except for just plain nasty interfaces and
apparently disgusting hw problems wrt "rep movs/stos".

Linus