Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (94 commits)
  [PATCH] x86-64: Remove mk_pte_phys()
  [PATCH] i386: Fix broken CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386
  [PATCH] i386: fix 32-bit ioctls on x64_32
  [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64
  [PATCH] i386: Remove extern declaration from mm/discontig.c, put in header.
  [PATCH] i386: Rename cpu_gdt_descr and remove extern declaration from smpboot.c
  [PATCH] i386: Move mce_disabled to asm/mce.h
  [PATCH] i386: paravirt unhandled fallthrough
  [PATCH] x86_64: Wire up compat epoll_pwait
  [PATCH] x86: Don't require the vDSO for handling a.out signals
  [PATCH] i386: Fix Cyrix MediaGX detection
  [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in cpu initialization
  [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in microcode.c
  [PATCH] x86: Enable NMI watchdog for AMD Family 0x10 CPUs
  [PATCH] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo
  [PATCH] i386: Remove fastcall in paravirt.[ch]
  [PATCH] x86-64: Fix wrong gcc check in bitops.h
  [PATCH] x86-64: survive having no irq mapping for a vector
  [PATCH] i386: geode configuration fixes
  [PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports
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+Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code.
+
+Machine checks report internal hardware error conditions detected
+by the CPU. Uncorrected errors typically cause a machine check
+(often with panic), corrected ones cause a machine check log entry.
+
+Machine checks are organized in banks (normally associated with
+a hardware subsystem) and subevents in a bank. The exact meaning
+of the banks and subevent is CPU specific.
+
+mcelog knows how to decode them.
+
+When you see the "Machine check errors logged" message in the system
+log then mcelog should run to collect and decode machine check entries
+from /dev/mcelog. Normally mcelog should be run regularly from a cronjob.
+
+Each CPU has a directory in /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckN
+(N = CPU number)
+
+The directory contains some configurable entries:
+
+Entries:
+
+bankNctl
+(N bank number)
+	64bit Hex bitmask enabling/disabling specific subevents for bank N
+	When a bit in the bitmask is zero then the respective
+	subevent will not be reported.
+	By default all events are enabled.
+	Note that BIOS maintain another mask to disable specific events
+	per bank.  This is not visible here
+
+The following entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
+between all CPUs.
+
+check_interval
+	How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in seconds
+	(Note output is hexademical). Default 5 minutes.
+
+tolerant
+	Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a non
+	corrected machine check the kernel can take different actions.
+	Since machine check exceptions can happen any time it is sometimes
+	risky for the kernel to kill a process because it defies
+	normal kernel locking rules. The tolerance level configures
+	how hard the kernel tries to recover even at some risk of deadlock.
+
+	0: always panic,
+	1: panic if deadlock possible,
+	2: try to avoid panic,
+   	3: never panic or exit (for testing only)
+
+	Default: 1
+
+	Note this only makes a difference if the CPU allows recovery
+	from a machine check exception. Current x86 CPUs generally do not.
+
+trigger
+	Program to run when a machine check event is detected.
+	This is an alternative to running mcelog regularly from cron
+	and allows to detect events faster.
+
+TBD document entries for AMD threshold interrupt configuration
+
+For more details about the x86 machine check architecture
+see the Intel and AMD architecture manuals from their developer websites.
+
+For more details about the architecture see
+see http://one.firstfloor.org/~andi/mce.pdf