x86/mce/AMD: Document some functionality

In an attempt to aid in understanding of what the threshold_block
structure holds, provide comments to describe the members here. Also,
trim comments around threshold_restart_bank() and update copyright info.

No functional change is introduced.

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
[ Shorten comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457021458-2522-6-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h
index 3c56ef1ae068e8c52b829bab6719d47fba0ef8bd..5e828da2e18f6e9b4ee05e0abab7997b2fe9c6d3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h
@@ -27,15 +27,23 @@ struct amd_l3_cache {
 };
 
 struct threshold_block {
-       unsigned int            block;
-       unsigned int            bank;
-       unsigned int            cpu;
-       u32                     address;
-       u16                     interrupt_enable;
-       bool                    interrupt_capable;
-       u16                     threshold_limit;
-       struct kobject          kobj;
-       struct list_head        miscj;
+       unsigned int     block;                 /* Number within bank */
+       unsigned int     bank;                  /* MCA bank the block belongs to */
+       unsigned int     cpu;                   /* CPU which controls MCA bank */
+       u32              address;               /* MSR address for the block */
+       u16              interrupt_enable;      /* Enable/Disable APIC interrupt */
+       bool             interrupt_capable;     /* Bank can generate an interrupt. */
+
+       u16              threshold_limit;       /*
+                                                * Value upon which threshold
+                                                * interrupt is generated.
+                                                */
+
+       struct kobject   kobj;                  /* sysfs object */
+       struct list_head miscj;                 /*
+                                                * List of threshold blocks
+                                                * within a bank.
+                                                */
 };
 
 struct threshold_bank {

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
index a53eb1ba587e8aeccb611d872a13c6cb29217cbd..9d656fd436efd6c90ad148a3cfbbd673248000f5 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *  (c) 2005-2015 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+ *  (c) 2005-2016 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  *  Your use of this code is subject to the terms and conditions of the
  *  GNU general public license version 2. See "COPYING" or
  *  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
@@ -201,10 +201,7 @@ static int lvt_off_valid(struct threshold_block *b, int apic, u32 lo, u32 hi)
        return 1;
 };
 
-/*
- * Called via smp_call_function_single(), must be called with correct
- * cpu affinity.
- */
+/* Reprogram MCx_MISC MSR behind this threshold bank. */
 static void threshold_restart_bank(void *_tr)
 {
        struct thresh_restart *tr = _tr;