EDAC: Add an edac_report parameter to EDAC

This new parameter is used to control how to report HW error reporting,
especially for newer Intel platform, like Ivybridge-EX, which contains
an enhanced error decoding functionality in the firmware, i.e. eMCA.

Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386310630-12529-2-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com
[ Boris: massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 50680a59a2ff..453092c822f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -881,6 +881,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
                         The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
 
+        edac_report=    [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
+                        Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
+                        on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
+                        by other higher priority error reporting module.
+                        off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
+                        force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
+                        default: on.
+
         ekgdboc=        [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
                         ekgdboc=kbd