From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752871AbcCGNDD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2016 08:03:03 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:60602 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752435AbcCGNCf (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2016 08:02:35 -0500 From: Borislav Petkov To: Ingo Molnar Cc: X86 ML , linux-edac , LKML Subject: [PATCH 4/5] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:02:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1457355741-32651-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.3.5 In-Reply-To: <1457355741-32651-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> References: <1457355741-32651-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan 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 Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-edac Cc: Tony Luck Cc: x86-ml Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457021458-2522-5-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov --- 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 72f86882d62a..cfff34172be0 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 */ -- 2.3.5