From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:28:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] add MCA recovery on/off switch Message-Id: <4254384F.8050601@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <200504060327.j363REMp8976934@clink.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200504060327.j363REMp8976934@clink.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, April 5, 2005 8:32 pm, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > >>Russ Anderson wrote: >> >>>Create /proc/sys/kernel/mca_recovery to turn on/off the MCA recovery >>>code. This allows the recovery code to be enabled or disabled without >>>having to reboot. >> >>Is there also a way to disable MCA recovery on the command line >>as a boot option? Using sysctl for it could be too late. > > > Yeah, we added the 'nomca' option a while back to disable machine check > recovery altogether, but it prevents it from being enabled later on iirc. Well I searched Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and didn't find it there, so please send a patch for that too. :) -- ~Randy