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x86/mce: Add support for deferred errors on AMD

Deferred errors indicate error conditions that were not corrected, but
those errors have not been consumed yet. They require no action from
S/W (or action is optional). These errors provide info about a latent
uncorrectable MCE that can occur when a poisoned data is consumed by the
processor.

Newer AMD processors can generate deferred errors and can be configured
to generate APIC interrupts on such events.

SUCCOR stands for S/W UnCorrectable error COntainment and Recovery.
It indicates support for data poisoning in HW and deferred error
interrupts.

Add new bitfield to mce_vendor_flags for this. We use this to verify
presence of deferred error interrupts before we enable them in mce_amd.c

While at it, clarify comments in mce_vendor_flags to provide an
indication of usages of the bitfields.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430913538-1415-4-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
[ beef up commit message, do CPUID(8000_0007) only once. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Aravind Gopalakrishnan 10 years ago
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2 changed files with 21 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 13 2
      arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
  2. 8 2
      arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c

+ 13 - 2
arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h

@@ -117,8 +117,19 @@ struct mca_config {
 };
 };
 
 
 struct mce_vendor_flags {
 struct mce_vendor_flags {
-	__u64		overflow_recov	: 1, /* cpuid_ebx(80000007) */
-			__reserved_0	: 63;
+			/*
+			 * overflow recovery cpuid bit indicates that overflow
+			 * conditions are not fatal
+			 */
+	__u64		overflow_recov	: 1,
+
+			/*
+			 * SUCCOR stands for S/W UnCorrectable error COntainment
+			 * and Recovery. It indicates support for data poisoning
+			 * in HW and deferred error interrupts.
+			 */
+			succor		: 1,
+			__reserved_0	: 62;
 };
 };
 extern struct mce_vendor_flags mce_flags;
 extern struct mce_vendor_flags mce_flags;
 
 

+ 8 - 2
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c

@@ -1637,10 +1637,16 @@ static void __mcheck_cpu_init_vendor(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		mce_intel_feature_init(c);
 		mce_intel_feature_init(c);
 		mce_adjust_timer = cmci_intel_adjust_timer;
 		mce_adjust_timer = cmci_intel_adjust_timer;
 		break;
 		break;
-	case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
+
+	case X86_VENDOR_AMD: {
+		u32 ebx = cpuid_ebx(0x80000007);
+
 		mce_amd_feature_init(c);
 		mce_amd_feature_init(c);
-		mce_flags.overflow_recov = cpuid_ebx(0x80000007) & 0x1;
+		mce_flags.overflow_recov = !!(ebx & BIT(0));
+		mce_flags.succor	 = !!(ebx & BIT(1));
 		break;
 		break;
+		}
+
 	default:
 	default:
 		break;
 		break;
 	}
 	}