From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755148Ab1AJWzT (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:55:19 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([72.52.115.56]:45850 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755085Ab1AJWzP (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:55:15 -0500 Message-ID: <43835.148.87.67.136.1294700112.squirrel@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <1294699587-2362-1-git-send-email-mikew@google.com> References: <1294699587-2362-1-git-send-email-mikew@google.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:55:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add an option to disable decoding of MCE From: "Randy Dunlap" To: "Mike Waychison" Cc: mingo@elte.hu, borislav.petkov@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, mikew@google.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, January 10, 2011 2:46 pm, Mike Waychison wrote: > This patch applies to v2.6.37. > --- > > > On our systems, we do not want to have any "decoders" called on machine > check events. These decoders can easily spam our logs and cause space > problems on machines that have a lot of correctable error events. We _do_ > however want to get the messages delivered via /dev/mcelog for userland > processing. > > Introduce an interface "dont_decode" that allows us to skip the > decoders. We always call the decoders by default. > > Google-Bug-Id: 3289142 > Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison > --- > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 files > changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Hi, Please update Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt with this new option. -- ~Randy