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authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2011-09-13 15:23:21 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2012-09-17 19:33:13 +0200
commite57dbaf77f372ac461b5b0b353c65efae9739a00 (patch)
tree3a881617874910b3a179816be67c427e3845ded6
parentLinux 3.6-rc6 (diff)
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x86, mce: Enable MCA support by default
MCA is the basic support for hardware error logging and reporting, and it is majorly unwise to run without it so enable machine check software support by default on x86. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8ec3a1aa4abd..3d2d2ef0e16a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -871,6 +871,7 @@ config X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
config X86_MCE
bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
+ default y
---help---
Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the
kernel if it detects a problem (e.g. overheating, data corruption).