Commit 2cd3b5f9 authored by Aravind Gopalakrishnan's avatar Aravind Gopalakrishnan Committed by Ingo Molnar

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: default avatarAravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav 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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 8dd1e17a
......@@ -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 */
......
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