x86/mce: Provide boot argument to honour bios-set CMCI threshold

The ACPI spec doesn't provide for a way for the bios to pass down
recommended thresholds to the OS on a _per-bank_ basis. This patch adds
a new boot option, which if passed, tells Linux to use CMCI thresholds
set by the bios.

As fail-safe, we initialize threshold to 1 if some banks have not been
initialized by the bios and warn the user.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index ccaf7c581c8f..54d73b1f00a0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct device *, mce_device);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL
 extern int mce_cmci_disabled;
 extern int mce_ignore_ce;
+extern int mce_bios_cmci_threshold;
 void mce_intel_feature_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 void cmci_clear(void);
 void cmci_reenable(void);