On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:21:50PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> Using __copy_user_nocache() as inspiration create a memory copy
> routine for use by kernel code with annotations to allow for
> recovery from machine checks.
>
> Notes:
> 1) Unlike the original we make no attempt to copy all the bytes
> up to the faulting address. The original achieves that by
> re-executing the failing part as a byte-by-byte copy,
> which will take another page fault. We don't want to have
> a second machine check!
> 2) Likewise the return value for the original indicates exactly
> how many bytes were not copied. Instead we provide the physical
> address of the fault (thanks to help from do_machine_check()
> 3) Provide helpful macros to decode the return value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 5 +++
> arch/x86/kernel/x8664_ksyms_64.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S | 91
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 98 insertions(+)
...
> + * mcsafe_memcpy - Uncached memory copy with machine check exception handling
> + * Note that we only catch machine checks when reading the source addresses.
> + * Writes to target are posted and don't generate machine checks.
> + * This will force destination/source out of cache for more performance.
... and the non-temporal version is the optimal one even though we're
defaulting to copy_user_enhanced_fast_string for memcpy on modern Intel
CPUs...?
Btw, it should be also inside an ifdef if we're going to ifdef
CONFIG_MCE_KERNEL_RECOVERY everywhere else.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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