From 6057077f6ebc0747c2f5b21dfb1eb782f489d0f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yazen Ghannam Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:28:35 +0200 Subject: x86/mce: Update bootlog description to reflect behavior on AMD The bootlog option is only disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older systems. Update bootlog description to say this. Change the family value to hex to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Luck Cc: linux-edac Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613162835.30750-9-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 61b611e9eeaf..b297c48389b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ Machine check 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. + Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older 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. On Intel systems it is enabled by default. -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522