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From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Oct 2020 09:59:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: [tip: ras/core] x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to
 copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:54 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> 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@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
>
> 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/.