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authorAravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>2016-03-07 13:02:20 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-03-08 10:48:15 (GMT)
commit2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8 (patch)
treefac916917b5b1b4498f0a778f0b9dc480b07c663
parent8dd1e17a55b0bb1206c71c7a4344c5e3037cdf65 (diff)
downloadlinux-2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8.tar.xz
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>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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 */