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x86, mce: improve documentation

Document that check_interval set to 0 means no polling.
Noticed by Hidetoshi Seto

Also add a reference from boot options to the sysfs tunables

Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Andi Kleen 16 жил өмнө
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Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here.
 
 
 Machine check
 Machine check
 
 
+   Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables.
+
    mce=off disable machine check
    mce=off disable machine check
    mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
    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 because some BIOS leave bogus ones.

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Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck

@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ check_interval
 	the polling interval.  When the poller stops finding MCEs, it
 	the polling interval.  When the poller stops finding MCEs, it
 	triggers an exponential backoff (poll less often) on the polling
 	triggers an exponential backoff (poll less often) on the polling
 	interval. The check_interval variable is both the initial and
 	interval. The check_interval variable is both the initial and
-	maximum polling interval.
+	maximum polling interval. 0 means no polling for corrected machine
+	check errors (but some corrected errors might be still reported
+	in other ways)
 
 
 tolerant
 tolerant
 	Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a non
 	Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a non