Commit-ID:  2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2cd3b5f9033f0b051842a279dac5a54271cbd3c8
Author:     Aravind Gopalakrishnan <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:02:20 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: linux-edac <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 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 */
 

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