From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753566Ab1JGP1x (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:27:53 -0400 Received: from s15228384.onlinehome-server.info ([87.106.30.177]:50102 "EHLO mail.x86-64.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752995Ab1JGP1u (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:27:50 -0400 From: Borislav Petkov To: EDAC devel Cc: Tony Luck , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Borislav Petkov Subject: [PATCH 1/4] x86, mce: Enable MCA support by default Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:27:36 +0200 Message-Id: <1318001259-1720-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.rc2 In-Reply-To: <1318001259-1720-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> References: <1318001259-1720-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Borislav Petkov MCA is the most basic support for hardware error collection and reporting, and it is majorly unwise to run without it so enable machine check software support by default on x86. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 6a47bb2..afb7a19 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -841,6 +841,7 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS config X86_MCE bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" + default y ---help--- Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). -- 1.7.4.rc2