mce: acpi/apei: Add comments to clarify usage of the various bitfields in the MCA...
authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:28:59 +0000 (23:58 +0530)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:53:27 +0000 (13:53 -0700)
commit0644414e62561f0ba1bea7c5ba6a94cc50dac3e3
treedeb10365752b0959a3429bb1e19b6d785d354cbc
parent9e895ace5d82df8929b16f58e9f515f6d54ab82d
mce: acpi/apei: Add comments to clarify usage of the various bitfields in the MCA subsystem

There is some confusion about the 'mce_poll_banks' and 'mce_banks_owned'
per-cpu bitmaps.  Provide comments so that we all know exactly what these
are used for, and why.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c