[PATCH 14/17] x86: MCE: Document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue May 26 2009 - 19:21:52 EST


From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse>

+mcelog
+------
+o <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog/>
+
Networking
**********

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1.6.0.2

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