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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2005-11-05 17:25:54 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-14 19:55:17 -0800
commite583538f077d5f70191670b47a046ba436ec3428 (patch)
tree576298f190ce8a4f321bb84efce2ace41aa12194 /Documentation
parentb0bd35e622ffbda2c01dc67a0381c6a18817a29a (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: Log machine checks from boot on Intel systems
The logging for boot errors was turned off because it was broken on some AMD systems. But give Intel EM64T systems a chance because they are supposed to be correct there. The advantage is that there is a chance to actually log uncorrected machine checks after the reset. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index a83139692cd..aaabb5883ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ Machine check
mce=off disable machine check
mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
- Disabled by default because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
+ Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
to make sure you log even machine check events that result
- in a reboot.
+ in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
+ mce=nobootlog
+ Disable boot machine check logging.
mce=tolerancelevel (number)
0: always panic, 1: panic if deadlock possible,
2: try to avoid panic, 3: never panic or exit (for testing)