Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86, mce, severity: extend the the mce_severity mechanism to handle UCNA/DEFERRED error

[Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>]

On 11/10/2014 4:17 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:06:00PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>>> +	MCESEV(
>>> +		DEFERRED, "Deferred error",
>>> +		NOSER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_UC|MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED|MCI_STATUS_POISON, MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED)
>>>   		),
>> We don't need to have MCI_STATUS_POISON in the MASK() here as a deferred
>> error is indicated by a {UC=0, Deferred = 1}
>> (Older docs might be unclear on that..)
> Well, I think that's ok because the MASK() macro actually makes the
> check do:
>
> look at bits MCI_STATUS_UC|MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED|MCI_STATUS_POISON and of
> them three MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED has to be the only one set.
>
> And that makes sense - we want deferred errors where we didn't attempt
> to consume poisoned data (which is signalled by MCI_STATUS_POISON)....

Yeah, makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>

Thanks,
-Aravind.