[tip:ras/core] x86/mce: Reuse one of the u16 padding fields in ' struct mce'

From: tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Aug 13 2015 - 06:46:54 EST


Commit-ID: 20d51a426fe9a0d0a63cc3a7488f621c8bac37e1
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/20d51a426fe9a0d0a63cc3a7488f621c8bac37e1
Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:29:33 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:12:50 +0200

x86/mce: Reuse one of the u16 padding fields in 'struct mce'

... to save the error severity of the MCE and whether the
reported address of the error is usable.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439396985-12812-2-git-send-email-bp@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h
index a0eab85..76880ed 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ struct mce {
__u64 time; /* wall time_t when error was detected */
__u8 cpuvendor; /* cpu vendor as encoded in system.h */
__u8 inject_flags; /* software inject flags */
- __u16 pad;
+ __u8 severity;
+ __u8 usable_addr;
__u32 cpuid; /* CPUID 1 EAX */
__u8 cs; /* code segment */
__u8 bank; /* machine check bank */
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