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>
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