x86/mm, x86/mce: Add memcpy_mcsafe()
Make use of the EXTABLE_FAULT exception table entries to write a kernel copy routine that doesn't crash the system if it encounters a machine check. Prime use case for this is to copy from large arrays of non-volatile memory used as storage. We have to use an unrolled copy loop for now because current hardware implementations treat a machine check in "rep mov" as fatal. When that is fixed we can simplify. Return type is a "bool". True means that we copied OK, false means that it didn't. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a44e1055efc2d2a9473307b22c91caa437aa3f8b.1456439214.git.tony.luck@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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