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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-05 14:55:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-05 14:55:20 -0700 |
| commit | ea62ccd00fd0b6720b033adfc9984f31130ce195 (patch) | |
| tree | 9837b797b2466fffcb0af96c388b06eae9c3df18 /Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck | |
| parent | 886a0768affe9a32f18c45f8e1393bca9ece5392 (diff) | |
| parent | 35060b6a9a4e1c89bc6fbea61090e302dbc61847 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits)
[PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall
[PATCH] i386: type may be unused
[PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation.
[PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.
[PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff
[PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu
[PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h
[PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c
[PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems
[PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64
[PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER
[PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls
[PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0)
[PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c
[PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning
[PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible
[PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP
[PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386
[PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386
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Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck b/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck index 068a6d9904b..feaeaf6f6e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck @@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ between all CPUs. check_interval How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in seconds - (Note output is hexademical). Default 5 minutes. + (Note output is hexademical). 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. tolerant Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a non |