Re: [REGRESSION] 998ef75ddb and aio-dio-invalidate-failure w/ data=journal

[Ingo Molnar]

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On October 5, 2015 1:22:44 PM PDT, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We could probably do them outside the loop, rather than tightly around the 
> > actual move instructions. Peter (hpa), is there some sane interface to try to 
> > do that?
> 
> There are... in particular the get_user_try/catch mechanism, used among other 
> things by the signal handing, as well as the copy functions (I don't have the 
> original code in front of me so I don't have the context which would be 
> appropriate.)

Yes, but note that those interfaces are x86 only at the moment, so they'd have to 
be factored out and generalized before we can use it in generic code.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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