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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 <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457021458-2522-5-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Aravind Gopalakrishnan 9 years ago
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      arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h

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arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 #define MCI_STATUS_AR	 (1ULL<<55)  /* Action required */
 #define MCI_STATUS_AR	 (1ULL<<55)  /* Action required */
 
 
 /* AMD-specific bits */
 /* 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_POISON	(1ULL<<43)  /* access poisonous data */
 #define MCI_STATUS_TCC		(1ULL<<55)  /* Task context corrupt */
 #define MCI_STATUS_TCC		(1ULL<<55)  /* Task context corrupt */