Commit 172d899d authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes 



Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent de5619df

Documentation/Changes

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@@ -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

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@@ -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

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@@ -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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