On 01/15/2014 05:36 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> msr_read() would essentially map to rdmsr_safe(). Each method has a >> return value that can be checked for failure. > > I'm not sure we want to use the _safe() variants by default as it would > generate the exception tables even in cases where they're clearly not > needed. > It would be particularly silly if what you end up with is in effect to wrap msr_read/write() in a BUG_ON(), which is the effect of the current (trapping) form. There is something to be said for hard errors. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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