From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752120AbaF2Bfl (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:35:41 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:58267 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751777AbaF2Bfj (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:35:39 -0400 Message-ID: <53AF6D69.5060601@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:35:37 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Bolle , Andi Kleen CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Changes: cleanup mcelog paragraph References: <1403611956.1960.17.camel@x220> In-Reply-To: <1403611956.1960.17.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/24/14 05:12, Paul Bolle wrote: > The paragraph on mcelog currently describes kernel v2.6.31. In that > kernel the mce code (for i386, that is) was in transition. Ever since > v2.6.32 the situation is much simpler (eg, mcelog is now needed to > process events on almost all x86 machines, i386 and x86-64). Since this > "document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of > software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels" let's just describe that > situation. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle > --- > Documentation/Changes | 9 +++------ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes > index 2254db0f00a5..227bec88021e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/Changes > +++ b/Documentation/Changes > @@ -280,12 +280,9 @@ 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. > +On x86 kernels the mcelog utility is needed to process and log machine check > +events when CONFIG_X86_MCE is enabled. Machine check events are errors reported > +by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. > > Getting updated software > ======================== > Applied with Andi's ack. Thanks. -- ~Randy