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Message-ID: <20151121191725.GC15172@pd.tnic>
Date:	Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:17:25 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Add the missing memory error check on AMD

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:29:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Add the missing memory error check on AMD

We simply need to look at the extended error code when detecting whether
the error is of type memory.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index fb8b1db7b150..e00e85ab7387 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -522,10 +522,10 @@ static bool memory_error(struct mce *m)
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data;
 
 	if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD) {
-		/*
-		 * coming soon
-		 */
-		return false;
+		/* ErrCodeExt[20:16] */
+		u8 xec = (m->status >> 16) & 0x1f;
+
+		return (xec == 0x0 || xec == 0x8);
 	} else if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL) {
 		/*
 		 * Intel SDM Volume 3B - 15.9.2 Compound Error Codes
-- 
2.3.5

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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