[PATCH] x86-64: Add command line option to set machine check tolerance level

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index 678e8f192db2..ffe1c062088b 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ Machine check
                If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
                to make sure you log even machine check events that result
                in a reboot.
+   mce=tolerancelevel (number)
+                0: always panic, 1: panic if deadlock possible,
+                2: try to avoid panic, 3: never panic or exit (for testing)
+                default is 1
+                Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable.
 
    nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off