On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 10:34:08PM +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Hi Greg, hi Dan, > > Am Samstag, 31. Oktober 2020, 12:36:06 CET schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > From: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> > > > > commit ec6347bb43395cb92126788a1a5b25302543f815 upstream. > > > > In reaction to a proposal to introduce a memcpy_mcsafe_fast() > > implementation Linus points out that memcpy_mcsafe() is poorly named > > relative to communicating the scope of the interface. Specifically what > > addresses are valid to pass as source, destination, and what faults / > > exceptions are handled. > > > > > > Introduce an x86 copy_mc_fragile() name as the rename for the > > low-level x86 implementation formerly named memcpy_mcsafe(). It is used > > as the slow / careful backend that is supplanted by a fast > > copy_mc_generic() in a follow-on patch. > > > > One side-effect of this reorganization is that separating copy_mc_64.S > > to its own file means that perf no longer needs to track dependencies > > for its memcpy_64.S benchmarks. > > > > --- > > arch/powerpc/lib/copy_mc_64.S | 242 > > +++++++++++++++++ > > arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_mcsafe_64.S | 242 > > ----------------- > > > tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/copy_mc_64.S | 242 > > +++++++++++++++++ > > This change leaves a dangling symlink in > tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops behind. At least, this is, what I > could track down, when building 5.9.3 within an environment, that bails out > on this: > > [ 2908s] calling /usr/lib/rpm/brp-suse.d/brp-25-symlink > [ 2908s] ERROR: link target doesn't exist (neither in build root nor in > installed system): > [ 2908s] > /usr/src/linux-5.9.3-lp152.3-vanilla/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/memcpy_mcsafe_64.S > -> /usr/src/linux-5.9.3-lp152.3-vanilla/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_mcsafe_64.S > [ 2908s] Add the package providing the target to BuildRequires and Requires > [ 2909s] INFO: relinking > /usr/src/linux-5.9.3-lp152.3-vanilla/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/primitives/asm/asm-compat.h > -> ../../../../../../arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h (was > ../.././../../../../arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h) > > Linus` tree seems to not suffer from this, though.
Ah, that kind of makes sense, I saw odd things with these patches that I couldn't figure out. So, is there a symlink that I need to add/fix to resolve this? thanks, greg k-h
