x86: mce: Update X86_MCE description in x86/Kconfig

- Clarify that this config controls thermal throttling
reporting too
- Clarify the types of errors reported by machine checks
- Drop references to ancient CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5962b872a7ad..134a8c0d80dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -774,20 +774,12 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
           increased on these systems.
 
 config X86_MCE
-        bool "Machine Check Exception"
+        bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
         ---help---
-          Machine Check Exception support allows the processor to notify the
-          kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, component failure).
+          Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
+          kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).
           The action the kernel takes depends on the severity of the problem,
-          ranging from a warning message on the console, to halting the machine.
-          Your processor must be a Pentium or newer to support this - check the
-          flags in /proc/cpuinfo for mce.  Note that some older Pentium systems
-          have a design flaw which leads to false MCE events - hence MCE is
-          disabled on all P5 processors, unless explicitly enabled with "mce"
-          as a boot argument.  Similarly, if MCE is built in and creates a
-          problem on some new non-standard machine, you can boot with "nomce"
-          to disable it.  MCE support simply ignores non-MCE processors like
-          the 386 and 486, so nearly everyone can say Y here.
+          ranging from warning messages to halting the machine.
 
 config X86_OLD_MCE
         depends on X86_32 && X86_MCE