x86/mm, x86/mce: Add memcpy_mcsafe()

Make use of the EXTABLE_FAULT exception table entries to write
a kernel copy routine that doesn't crash the system if it
encounters a machine check. Prime use case for this is to copy
from large arrays of non-volatile memory used as storage.

We have to use an unrolled copy loop for now because current
hardware implementations treat a machine check in "rep mov"
as fatal. When that is fixed we can simplify.

Return type is a "bool". True means that we copied OK, false means
that it didn't.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a44e1055efc2d2a9473307b22c91caa437aa3f8b.1456439214.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
index ff8b9a17dc4b..ca6ba3607705 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h
@@ -78,6 +78,19 @@ int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct);
 #define memset(s, c, n) __memset(s, c, n)
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * memcpy_mcsafe - copy memory with indication if a machine check happened
+ *
+ * @dst:	destination address
+ * @src:	source address
+ * @cnt:	number of bytes to copy
+ *
+ * Low level memory copy function that catches machine checks
+ *
+ * Return true for success, false for fail
+ */
+bool memcpy_mcsafe(void *dst, const void *src, size_t cnt);
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_STRING_64_H */