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@@ -21,60 +21,8 @@ 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).
-The directory contains some configurable 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.
- By default all events are enabled.
- Note that BIOS maintain another mask to disable specific events
- per bank. This is not visible here
-
-The following entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
-between all CPUs.
-
-check_interval
- How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in seconds
- (Note output is hexadecimal). Default 5 minutes. When the poller
- finds MCEs it triggers an exponential speedup (poll more often) on
- the polling interval. When the poller stops finding MCEs, it
- triggers an exponential backoff (poll less often) on the polling
- interval. The check_interval variable is both the initial and
- maximum polling interval. 0 means no polling for corrected machine
- check errors (but some corrected errors might be still reported
- in other ways)
-
-tolerant
- Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a non
- corrected machine check the kernel can take different actions.
- Since machine check exceptions can happen any time it is sometimes
- risky for the kernel to kill a process because it defies
- normal kernel locking rules. The tolerance level configures
- how hard the kernel tries to recover even at some risk of
- deadlock. Higher tolerant values trade potentially better uptime
- with the risk of a crash or even corruption (for tolerant >= 3).
-
- 0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
- 1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
- 2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
- 3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only)
-
- Default: 1
-
- Note this only makes a difference if the CPU allows recovery
- from a machine check exception. Current x86 CPUs generally do not.
-
-trigger
- Program to run when a machine check event is detected.
- This is an alternative to running mcelog regularly from cron
- and allows to detect events faster.
-monarch_timeout
- How long to wait for the other CPUs to machine check too on a
- exception. 0 to disable waiting for other CPUs.
- Unit: us
+The directory contains some configurable entries. See
+Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-mce for more details.
TBD document entries for AMD threshold interrupt configuration