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Commit 60622d68 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Return bytes remaining



Machine check safe memory copies are currently deployed in the pmem
driver whenever reading from persistent memory media, so that -EIO is
returned rather than triggering a kernel panic. While this protects most
pmem accesses, it is not complete in the filesystem-dax case. When
filesystem-dax is enabled reads may bypass the block layer and the
driver via dax_iomap_actor() and its usage of copy_to_iter().

In preparation for creating a copy_to_iter() variant that can handle
machine checks, teach memcpy_mcsafe() to return the number of bytes
remaining rather than -EFAULT when an exception occurs.

Co-developed-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238119.31796.14318473522414462886.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent bd131544
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