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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2009-04-28 23:37:02 +0200 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2009-05-28 09:24:13 -0700 |
| commit | 172d899db4bf0beb7766d583379e5ed552130e4a (patch) | |
| tree | 8685a2ee123ff2f63652ddc848b9ae37a9d4736c /Documentation/Changes | |
| parent | de5619dfef76ddb403eb7c6de39c0130166c5dc3 (diff) | |
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x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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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 ********** |