From: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd•com>
To: linux-next@vger•kernel.org
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd•com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg•samsung.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse•de>
Subject: [PATCH] EDAC: Document HW_EVENT_ERR_DEFERRED type
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:24:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1480623893-76399-1-git-send-email-Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161201195753.rrxgwvltptq4gegp@yaz-fedora.dyhomenet>
Add a description of the HW_EVENT_ERR_DEFERRED type that wasn't included
with commit d12a969ebbfc ("EDAC, amd64: Add Deferred Error type").
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg•samsung.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse•de>
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd•com>
---
include/linux/edac.h | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/edac.h b/include/linux/edac.h
index cb56dcb..43cd51d 100644
--- a/include/linux/edac.h
+++ b/include/linux/edac.h
@@ -128,6 +128,12 @@ enum dev_type {
* fatal (maybe it is on an unused memory area,
* or the memory controller could recover from
* it for example, by re-trying the operation).
+ * @HW_EVENT_ERR_DEFERRED: Deferred Error - Indicates an uncorrectable
+ * error whose handling is not urgent. This could
+ * be due to hardware data poisoning where the
+ * system can continue operation until the poisoned
+ * data is consumed. Preemptive measures may also
+ * be taken, e.g. offlining pages, etc.
* @HW_EVENT_ERR_FATAL: Fatal Error - Uncorrected error that could not
* be recovered.
*/
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-01 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-28 3:37 linux-next: manual merge of the edac-amd tree with the edac tree Stephen Rothwell
2016-11-28 8:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-11-30 10:50 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-12-01 10:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-12-01 12:06 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-12-01 16:02 ` Yazen Ghannam
2016-12-01 18:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-12-01 19:57 ` Yazen Ghannam
2016-12-01 20:24 ` Yazen Ghannam [this message]
2016-12-01 20:27 ` [PATCH] EDAC: Document HW_EVENT_ERR_DEFERRED type Borislav Petkov
2016-12-01 21:36 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-12-01 21:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-12-01 22:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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