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| author | Yazen Ghannam | 2017-06-13 18:28:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar | 2017-06-14 07:32:10 +0200 |
| commit | 6057077f6ebc0747c2f5b21dfb1eb782f489d0f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 45e9b1ed7e70441810091ec88df3a32a2d62ecee /Documentation | |
| parent | ec33838244c8535b23b8d24b167996fd1318bb68 (diff) | |
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 <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613162835.30750-9-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
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. |