[PATCH 01/13] x86/mce: Reuse one of the u16 padding fields in struct mce

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Aug 12 2015 - 12:29:50 EST


From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

... to save the error severity of the MCE and whether the reported
address of the error is usable.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h
index a0eab85ce7b8..76880ede9a35 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ struct mce {
__u64 time; /* wall time_t when error was detected */
__u8 cpuvendor; /* cpu vendor as encoded in system.h */
__u8 inject_flags; /* software inject flags */
- __u16 pad;
+ __u8 severity;
+ __u8 usable_addr;
__u32 cpuid; /* CPUID 1 EAX */
__u8 cs; /* code segment */
__u8 bank; /* machine check bank */
--
2.5.0.rc2.28.g6003e7f

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