[v5 5/6] powerpc/mce: Handle UE event for memcpy_mcsafe
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 19:52:59 AEST 2019
Santosh Sivaraj's on July 9, 2019 10:15 pm:
> If we take a UE on one of the instructions with a fixup entry, set nip
> to continue execution at the fixup entry. Stop processing the event
> further or print it.
So... what happens if we take a machine check while we happen to be
executing some other kernel operation with a fixup entry?
Or the other way around, what happens if memcpy_mcsafe takes a page
fault for some reason (e.g., kernel bug it tries to access unmapped
memory).
Thanks,
Nick
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