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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-17 13:06:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-17 13:06:17 +0200 |
| commit | a3d06cc6aa3e765dc2bf98626f87272dcf641dca (patch) | |
| tree | aa3e49b58f08d6c0ea55cdca4fb5e6c8ba6ae333 /Documentation/Changes | |
| parent | 0990b1c65729012a63e0eeca93aaaafea4e9a064 (diff) | |
| parent | 65795efbd380a832ae508b04dba8f8e53f0b84d9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/kmap_types.h
include/linux/mm.h
include/asm-generic/kmap_types.h
Merge reason: We crossed changes with kmap_types.h cleanups in mainline.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/Changes')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Changes | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index b95082be4d5e..664392481c84 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils. o Gnu C 3.2 # gcc --version -o Gnu make 3.79.1 # make --version +o Gnu make 3.80 # make --version o binutils 2.12 # ld -v o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat --version o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ o procps 3.2.0 # ps --version o oprofile 0.9 # oprofiled --version o udev 081 # udevinfo -V o grub 0.93 # grub --version +o mcelog 0.6 Kernel compilation ================== @@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ computer. Make ---- -You will need Gnu make 3.79.1 or later to build the kernel. +You will need Gnu make 3.80 or later to build the kernel. Binutils -------- @@ -276,6 +277,16 @@ before running exportfs or mountd. It is recommended that all NFS services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where that is possible. +mcelog +------ + +In Linux 2.6.31+ the i386 kernel needs to run the mcelog utility +as a regular cronjob similar to the x86-64 kernel to process and log +machine check events when CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE is enabled. Machine check +events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged. +All x86-64 kernels since 2.6.4 require the mcelog utility to +process machine checks. + Getting updated software ======================== @@ -365,6 +376,10 @@ FUSE ---- o <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse> +mcelog +------ +o <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog/> + Networking ********** |