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authorAravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>2016-03-07 14:02:20 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-03-08 11:48:15 +0100
commit2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8 (patch)
treefac916917b5b1b4498f0a778f0b9dc480b07c663 /arch
parentx86/mce/AMD: Fix logic to obtain block address (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-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 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 */