Re: [PATCH 0/4] Enable deferred error interrupts

Ingo Molnar
2015-05-01T07:18:43Z

* Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com> wrote:

> Newer AMD processors can generate deferred errors and can be configured
> to generate APIC interrupts on such events.

What's the wider context of this? What is it good for?

I suspect it's MCE related, but only from the diffstat:

> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-

Please provide proper high level description for the changes.

Thanks,

Ingo