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: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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@ -774,20 +774,12 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
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increased on these systems.
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config X86_MCE
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bool "Machine Check Exception"
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bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
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---help---
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Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the
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kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure).
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Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
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kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
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The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
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ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine.
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Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the
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flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems
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have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is
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disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce"
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as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a
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problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce"
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to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like
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the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here.
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ranging from warning messages to halting the machine.
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config X86_OLD_MCE
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depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE
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