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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 53 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index e98e81a04971..e5deee2dfcfe 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -783,41 +783,17 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS increased on these systems. config X86_MCE - bool "Machine Check Exception" + bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting" ---help--- - Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the - kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure). + Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the + kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption). The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem, - ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine. - Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the - flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce. Note that some older Pentium systems - have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is - disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce" - as a boot argument. Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a - problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce" - to disable it. MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like - the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here. - -config X86_OLD_MCE - depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE - bool "Use legacy machine check code (will go away)" - default n - select X86_ANCIENT_MCE - ---help--- - Use the old i386 machine check code. This is merely intended for - testing in a transition period. Try this if you run into any machine - check related software problems, but report the problem to - linux-kernel. When in doubt say no. - -config X86_NEW_MCE - depends on X86_MCE - bool - default y if (!X86_OLD_MCE && X86_32) || X86_64 + ranging from warning messages to halting the machine. config X86_MCE_INTEL def_bool y prompt "Intel MCE features" - depends on X86_NEW_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC + depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC ---help--- Additional support for intel specific MCE features such as the thermal monitor. @@ -825,14 +801,14 @@ config X86_MCE_INTEL config X86_MCE_AMD def_bool y prompt "AMD MCE features" - depends on X86_NEW_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC + depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC ---help--- Additional support for AMD specific MCE features such as the DRAM Error Threshold. config X86_ANCIENT_MCE def_bool n - depends on X86_32 + depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE prompt "Support for old Pentium 5 / WinChip machine checks" ---help--- Include support for machine check handling on old Pentium 5 or WinChip @@ -845,36 +821,16 @@ config X86_MCE_THRESHOLD default y config X86_MCE_INJECT - depends on X86_NEW_MCE + depends on X86_MCE tristate "Machine check injector support" ---help--- Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel QA it is safe to say n. -config X86_MCE_NONFATAL - tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" - depends on X86_OLD_MCE - ---help--- - Enabling this feature starts a timer that triggers every 5 seconds which - will look at the machine check registers to see if anything happened. - Non-fatal problems automatically get corrected (but still logged). - Disable this if you don't want to see these messages. - Seeing the messages this option prints out may be indicative of dying - or out-of-spec (ie, overclocked) hardware. - This option only does something on certain CPUs. - (AMD Athlon/Duron and Intel Pentium 4) - -config X86_MCE_P4THERMAL - bool "check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt." - depends on X86_OLD_MCE && X86_MCE && (X86_UP_APIC || SMP) - ---help--- - Enabling this feature will cause a message to be printed when the P4 - enters thermal throttling. - config X86_THERMAL_VECTOR def_bool y - depends on X86_MCE_P4THERMAL || X86_MCE_INTEL + depends on X86_MCE_INTEL config VM86 bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED |