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| author | Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> | 2009-07-09 00:31:38 +0200 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-07-09 18:39:46 -0700 |
| commit | bab9bc6583fe6c1660d6ed36dd14bbb4edfaf393 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b2125ecc71e3d4d24265c20100b404349b9403e /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | c31d96338a6041520ba5f1b6a4a5012ef00686b3 (diff) | |
x86: mce: Update X86_MCE description in x86/Kconfig
- Clarify that this config controls thermal throttling
reporting too
- Clarify the types of errors reported by machine checks
- Drop references to ancient CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 5962b872a7a..134a8c0d80d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -774,20 +774,12 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS increased on these systems. config X86_MCE - bool "Machine Check Exception" + bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" ---help--- - Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the - kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). + Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the + kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, - ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. - Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the - flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems - have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is - disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" - as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a - problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" - to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like - the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. + ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. config X86_OLD_MCE depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE |