From 172d899db4bf0beb7766d583379e5ed552130e4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:37:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- Documentation/Changes | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b95082be4d5e..d21b3b5aa543 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 **********