Commit 6057077f authored by Yazen Ghannam's avatar Yazen Ghannam Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86/mce: Update bootlog description to reflect behavior on AMD

The bootlog option is only disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older
systems.

Update bootlog description to say this. Change the family value to hex
to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: default avatarYazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613162835.30750-9-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent ec338382
......@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ Machine check
to broadcast MCEs.
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 Fam10h and older because some BIOS
leave bogus ones.
If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
to make sure you log even machine check events that result
in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
......
......@@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ static int __mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
*/
clear_bit(10, (unsigned long *)&mce_banks[4].ctl);
}
if (c->x86 < 17 && cfg->bootlog < 0) {
if (c->x86 < 0x11 && cfg->bootlog < 0) {
/*
* Lots of broken BIOS around that don't clear them
* by default and leave crap in there. Don't log:
......@@ -1832,7 +1832,8 @@ void mce_disable_bank(int bank)
* mce=TOLERANCELEVEL[,monarchtimeout] (number, see above)
* monarchtimeout is how long to wait for other CPUs on machine
* check, or 0 to not wait
* mce=bootlog Log MCEs from before booting. Disabled by default on AMD.
* mce=bootlog Log MCEs from before booting. Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h
and older.
* mce=nobootlog Don't log MCEs from before booting.
* mce=bios_cmci_threshold Don't program the CMCI threshold
* mce=recovery force enable memcpy_mcsafe()
......
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