What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/ Contact: Andi Kleen Date: Feb, 2007 Description: (X = CPU number) 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. 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 http://one.firstfloor.org/~andi/mce.pdf Each CPU has its own directory. What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/bank Contact: Andi Kleen Date: Feb, 2007 Description: (Y bank number) 64bit Hex bitmask enabling/disabling specific subevents for bank Y. 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 What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/check_interval Contact: Andi Kleen Date: Feb, 2007 Description: The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared between all CPUs. How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in seconds (Note output is hexadecimal). Default 5 minutes. When the poller finds MCEs it triggers an exponential speedup (poll more often) on the polling interval. When the poller stops finding MCEs, it triggers an exponential backoff (poll less often) on the polling interval. The check_interval variable is both the initial and maximum polling interval. 0 means no polling for corrected machine check errors (but some corrected errors might be still reported in other ways) What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/trigger Contact: Andi Kleen Date: Feb, 2007 Description: The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared between all CPUs. 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. What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/monarch_timeout Contact: Andi Kleen Date: Feb, 2007 Description: How long to wait for the other CPUs to machine check too on a exception. 0 to disable waiting for other CPUs. Unit: us What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/ignore_ce Contact: Hidetoshi Seto Date: Jun 2009 Description: Disables polling and CMCI for corrected errors. All corrected events are not cleared and kept in bank MSRs. What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/dont_log_ce Contact: Hidetoshi Seto Date: Jun 2009 Description: Disables logging for corrected errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently. This option will be useful if you never care about corrected errors. What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/cmci_disabled Contact: Hidetoshi Seto Date: Jun 2009 Description: Disables the CMCI feature.