Re: [tip: ras/core] x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 12:59:40 EST


On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:54 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 11:53:15AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Oh nice! I just sent a patch [1] to fix this up as well,
>
> Yeah, for some reason it took you a while to see it - wondering if your
> mail servers are slow again.
>
> > but mine goes
> > after minimizing when it is exported, I think perhaps both are needed.
> >
> > http://lore.kernel.org/r/160209507277.2768223.9933672492157583642.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Looks like it.
>
> Why not rip out COPY_MC_TEST altogether though? Or you wanna do that
> after the merge window?
>
> It would be good to not have that export in 5.10 final if it is not
> really needed.

I'll draft a patch to rip it out. If you have a chance to grab it
before the merge window, great, if not I can funnel it through
nvdimm.git since the bulk of it will be touching
tools/testing/nvdimm/.