EDAC, mce_amd: Give more context to deferred error message
authorYazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:32:23 +0000 (16:32 -0600)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:03:29 +0000 (13:03 +0100)
Users may not be familiar with the concept of deferred errors. There is
no action for users to take on this type of error, so give more context
in the error message to make this more clear.

Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485297149-13733-2-git-send-email-Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
drivers/edac/mce_amd.c

index 34208f3..3acb3c0 100644 (file)
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ static const char *decode_error_status(struct mce *m)
        }
 
        if (m->status & MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED)
-               return "Deferred error.";
+               return "Deferred error, no action required.";
 
        return "Corrected error, no action required.";
 }