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Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 09:54:19 -0500
From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86/mce: Define 'SUCCOR' cpuid bit
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On 5/1/2015 5:25 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:49:22AM -0500, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>> SUCCOR stands for S/W UnCorrectable error COntainment and Recovery.
>> It indicates support for data poisoning in HW and deferred error
>> interrupts.
>>
>>
>>   
>>   struct mce_vendor_flags {
>>   	__u64		overflow_recov	: 1, /* cpuid_ebx(80000007) */
>> -			__reserved_0	: 63;
>> +			succor		: 1,
> Please add that CPUID bit definition from the commit message here too so
> that we know what it means.

Will do.

Shall I beef up comment regarding 'overflow_recov' too?
Something like 'overflow recovery cpuid bit indicates that overflow 
conditions are not fatal'
would provide a better indication of the usage of the bit IMHO.

>>   	case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
>>   		mce_amd_feature_init(c);
>>   		mce_flags.overflow_recov = cpuid_ebx(0x80000007) & 0x1;
>> +		mce_flags.succor = (cpuid_ebx(0x80000007) & 0x2) ? 1 : 0;
> 		mce_flags.succor = !!(cpuid_ebx(0x80000007) & BIT(1));
>
> is a common way of assigning truth values from bits in the kernel.
>
> You can change the above one to use BIT(0) too, while at it, and
> vertically align the assignments.
>
>


Ok, Will do.

Thanks,
-Aravind.
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