Commit 8780e8e0 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86, mce: improve documentation

Document that check_interval set to 0 means no polling.
Noticed by Hidetoshi Seto

Also add a reference from boot options to the sysfs tunables
Acked-by: default avatarHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent b170204d
......@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here.
Machine check
Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables.
mce=off disable machine check
mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
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......@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ check_interval
the polling interval. When the poller stops finding MCEs, it
triggers an exponential backoff (poll less often) on the polling
interval. The check_interval variable is both the initial and
maximum polling interval.
maximum polling interval. 0 means no polling for corrected machine
check errors (but some corrected errors might be still reported
in other ways)
tolerant
Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a non
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