Christophe Leroy's on July 6, 2019 4:16 pm: > > > Le 05/07/2019 à 23:26, Santosh Sivaraj a écrit : >> memcpy_mcsafe currently return -EFAULT on a machine check exception, change >> it to return the remaining bytes that needs to be copied, so that machine >> check safe copy_to_user can maintain the same behavior as copy_to_user. > > AFAIU, this behaviour is the expected behaviour for memcpy_mcsafe(). Why > implement a different behaviour in patch 3 and then change it here. > Can't memcpy_mcsafe() return remaining bytes as expected from patch 3 ?
+1 This approach might be useful if you copy an existing implementaation exactly and then make some changes incrementally, but patch 3 is already modified. Thanks, Nick
