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authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2011-09-13 15:23:21 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2012-09-17 19:33:13 +0200
commite57dbaf77f372ac461b5b0b353c65efae9739a00 (patch)
tree3a881617874910b3a179816be67c427e3845ded6 /arch/x86/Kconfig
parent5698bd757d55b1bb87edd1a9744ab09c142abfc2 (diff)
downloadlinux-e57dbaf77f372ac461b5b0b353c65efae9739a00.tar.bz2
x86, mce: Enable MCA support by default
MCA is the basic support for hardware error logging and reporting, and it is majorly unwise to run without it so enable machine check software support by default on x86. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
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--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -871,6 +871,7 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
config X86_MCE
bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
+ default y
---help---
Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).