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diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..cea12ee97200 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=============================================================== +Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code +=============================================================== + +Machine checks report internal hardware error conditions detected +by the CPU. Uncorrected errors typically cause a machine check +(often with panic), corrected ones cause a machine check log entry. + +Machine checks are organized in banks (normally associated with +a hardware subsystem) and subevents in a bank. The exact meaning +of the banks and subevent is CPU specific. + +mcelog knows how to decode them. + +When you see the "Machine check errors logged" message in the system +log then mcelog should run to collect and decode machine check entries +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. See +Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-mce for more details. + +TBD document entries for AMD threshold interrupt configuration + +For more details about the x86 machine check architecture +see the Intel and AMD architecture manuals from their developer websites. + +For more details about the architecture +see http://one.firstfloor.org/~andi/mce.pdf |