From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760476AbZEZXVs (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 19:21:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759106AbZEZXSl (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 19:18:41 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:53173 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759295AbZEZXSc (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 19:18:32 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com Cc: Andi Kleen Subject: [PATCH 14/17] x86: MCE: Document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 01:18:13 +0200 Message-Id: <17986790ae68ad7f93701894fd130cfd84f6adf5.1243377662.git.ak@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.2 In-Reply-To: References: <1243379896-26869-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <86b35f6b0b17e1edc38fb5c3178967ffc4d1fa0a.1243377662.git.ak@linux.intel.com> <5a2337a03ce794fe7cf69e338ffacacb3770797c.1243377662.git.ak@linux.intel.com> <4010bb177562589d0fd54043bb7bc6ea4d7998fd.1243377662.git.ak@linux.intel.com> <91219e907da103fc39dba8d32aaa9f872f0e6cc1.1243377662.git.ak@linux.intel.com> <2bc54830cc9e63d090dc461db0bdf99fc3d3cd4a.1243377662.git.ak@linux.intel.com> <6dfa191bd595ff969fafb3603ba464254ca895a7.1243377662.git.ak@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- Documentation/Changes | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b95082b..d21b3b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ o procps 3.2.0 # ps --version o oprofile 0.9 # oprofiled --version o udev 081 # udevinfo -V o grub 0.93 # grub --version +o mcelog 0.6 Kernel compilation ================== @@ -276,6 +277,16 @@ before running exportfs or mountd. It is recommended that all NFS services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where that is possible. +mcelog +------ + +In Linux 2.6.31+ the i386 kernel needs to run the mcelog utility +as a regular cronjob similar to the x86-64 kernel to process and log +machine check events when CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE is enabled. Machine check +events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. +All x86-64 kernels since 2.6.4 require the mcelog utility to +process machine checks. + Getting updated software ======================== @@ -365,6 +376,10 @@ FUSE ---- o +mcelog +------ +o + Networking ********** -- 1.6.0.2