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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.  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)
  
  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.  Higher tolerant values trade potentially better uptime
  	with the risk of a crash or even corruption (for tolerant >= 3).
  
  	0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
  	1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
  	2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
  	3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (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.
  monarch_timeout
  	How long to wait for the other CPUs to machine check too on a
  	exception. 0 to disable waiting for other CPUs.
  	Unit: us
  
  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