Commit bab9bc65 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by H. Peter Anvin

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: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent c31d9633
...@@ -774,20 +774,12 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS ...@@ -774,20 +774,12 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
increased on these systems. increased on these systems.
config X86_MCE config X86_MCE
bool "Machine Check Exception" bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
---help--- ---help---
Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. ranging from warning messages 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.
config X86_OLD_MCE config X86_OLD_MCE
depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
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