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Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reST 



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Signed-off-by: default avatarChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst

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   5level-paging

   fake-numa-for-cpusets

   cpu-hotplug-spec

   machinecheck

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0



Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code.

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Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code

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Machine checks report internal hardware error conditions detected

by the CPU. Uncorrected errors typically cause a machine check
@@ -16,14 +19,13 @@ log then mcelog should run to collect and decode machine check entries 
from /dev/mcelog. Normally mcelog should be run regularly from a cronjob.



Each CPU has a directory in /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckN

(N = CPU number)

(N = CPU number).



The directory contains some configurable entries:



Entries:



bankNctl

	(N bank number)



	64bit Hex bitmask enabling/disabling specific subevents for bank N

	When a bit in the bitmask is zero then the respective

	subevent will not be reported.