From 88d538672ea26223bca08225bc49f4e65e71683d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ashok Raj Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:55:23 +0200 Subject: x86/mce: Add infrastructure to support Local MCE Initialize and prepare for handling LMCEs. Add a boot-time option to disable LMCEs. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj [ Simplify stuff, align statements for better readability, reflow comments; kill unused lmce_clear(); save us an MSR write if LMCE is already enabled. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Luck Cc: linux-edac Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-16-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/x86/x86_64') diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 5223479291a2..68ed3114c363 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Machine check (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conflicting with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent, then this option will be a help. + mce=no_lmce + Do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method + to broadcast MCEs. mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting. Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones. -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522