x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error
authorAravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Mon, 7 Mar 2016 13:02:20 +0000 (14:02 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:48:15 +0000 (11:48 +0100)
Deferred errors indicate errors that hardware could not fix. But it
still does not cause any interruption to program flow. So it does not
generate any #MC and UC bit in MCx_STATUS is not set.

Correct comment.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457021458-2522-5-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h

index 72f86882d62a621ee77865aaae10558218ee0c38..cfff34172be07972d3e4681ef8d6455fb57bed2a 100644 (file)
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 #define MCI_STATUS_AR   (1ULL<<55)  /* Action required */
 
 /* AMD-specific bits */
-#define MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED    (1ULL<<44)  /* declare an uncorrected error */
+#define MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED    (1ULL<<44)  /* uncorrected error, deferred exception */
 #define MCI_STATUS_POISON      (1ULL<<43)  /* access poisonous data */
 #define MCI_STATUS_TCC         (1ULL<<55)  /* Task context corrupt */
 
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