From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754995Ab2IQQwL (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:52:11 -0400 Received: from mail.x86-64.org ([217.9.48.20]:53942 "EHLO mail.x86-64.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753717Ab2IQQwJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:52:09 -0400 From: Borislav Petkov To: Tony Luck Cc: X86-ML , EDAC devel , LKML , Borislav Petkov Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86, mce: Enable MCA support by default Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:52:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1347900723-17490-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.11.rc1 In-Reply-To: <1347900723-17490-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> References: <1347900723-17490-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Borislav Petkov 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 --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 8ec3a1aa4abd..3d2d2ef0e16a 100644 --- 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). -- 1.7.11.rc1