From: tip-bot for Aravind Gopalakrishnan <tipbot@zytor.com>
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Subject: [tip:ras/core] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 05:14:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457021458-2522-5-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Commit-ID: 2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8
Author: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:02:20 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 11:48:15 +0100
x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error
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 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index 72f8688..cfff341 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -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 */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-08 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-03 16:10 [PATCH V3 0/5] Updates to EDAC and AMD MCE driver Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-03 16:10 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] x86/mce: Move MCx_CONFIG MSR definition Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-03 16:10 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] EDAC, MCE, AMD: Enable error decoding of Scalable MCA errors Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-08 13:13 ` [tip:ras/core] x86/mce/AMD, EDAC: " tip-bot for Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-03 16:10 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] x86/mce/AMD: Fix logic to obtain block address Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-08 13:13 ` [tip:ras/core] " tip-bot for Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-03 16:10 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-08 13:14 ` tip-bot for Aravind Gopalakrishnan [this message]
2016-03-03 16:10 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] x86/mce/AMD: Add comments for easier understanding Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-08 13:14 ` [tip:ras/core] x86/mce/AMD: Document some functionality tip-bot for Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2016-03-03 18:45 ` [PATCH V3 0/5] Updates to EDAC and AMD MCE driver Borislav Petkov
2016-03-04 3:30 ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
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