Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86, mce, severity: extend the the mce_severity mechanism to handle UCNA/DEFERRED error

From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan
Date: Mon Nov 10 2014 - 18:03:59 EST


On 11/10/2014 4:17 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:06:00PM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
+ MCESEV(
+ DEFERRED, "Deferred error",
+ NOSER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_UC|MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED|MCI_STATUS_POISON, MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED)
),
We don't need to have MCI_STATUS_POISON in the MASK() here as a deferred
error is indicated by a {UC=0, Deferred = 1}
(Older docs might be unclear on that..)
Well, I think that's ok because the MASK() macro actually makes the
check do:

look at bits MCI_STATUS_UC|MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED|MCI_STATUS_POISON and of
them three MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED has to be the only one set.

And that makes sense - we want deferred errors where we didn't attempt
to consume poisoned data (which is signalled by MCI_STATUS_POISON)....

Yeah, makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
-Aravind.

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