Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error

2016-02-24 Thread Boris Petkov
Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > >That's precisely it- >I thought I wasn't descriptive enough. But yeah, I guess I can include >a >reference to BKDG as well if anyone wants a detailed description. No need for that. There are these things called search engines, you know... ;) -- Sent from a

Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error

2016-02-24 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 2/24/2016 5:37 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 05:02:40PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: On 2/23/16 6:11 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 03:45:10PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: /* AMD-specific bits */ -#define MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED(1UL

Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error

2016-02-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 05:02:40PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: > On 2/23/16 6:11 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 03:45:10PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: > >> /* AMD-specific bits */ > >>-#define MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED(1ULL<<44) /* declare an uncorrected

Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error

2016-02-23 Thread Aravind Gopalakrishnan
On 2/23/16 6:11 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 03:45:10PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: /* AMD-specific bits */ -#define MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED(1ULL<<44) /* declare an uncorrected error */ +#define MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED(1ULL<<44) /* declare a deferred error */

Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error

2016-02-23 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 03:45:10PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: > The Deferred field indicates if we have a 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