x86/mce: Add infrastructure to support Local MCE

Initialize and prepare for handling LMCEs. Add a boot-time
option to disable LMCEs.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
[ Simplify stuff, align statements for better readability, reflow comments; kill
  unused lmce_clear(); save us an MSR write if LMCE is already enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-16-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Ashok Raj
2015-06-04 18:55:23 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent bc12edb873
commit 88d538672e
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@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Machine check
(e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conflicting
with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent,
then this option will be a help.
mce=no_lmce
Do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method
to broadcast MCEs.
mce=bootlog
Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.