Commit-ID: 172d899db4bf0beb7766d583379e5ed552130e4a Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/172d899db4bf0beb7766d583379e5ed552130e4a Author: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:37:02 +0200 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:24:13 -0700 x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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 ********** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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