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How do I disable MCE function?

/ SOLUTION UNVERIFIED - Updated October 19 2015 at 11:30 AM - English

Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Issue
How do I disable MCE function?
Why /var/log/mcelog fle sill has content even if I turn of mcelogd service?

Resolution
Add following item in /boot/grub/grub.conf

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mce=off

From kernel-doc package: Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt

Raw

Machine check

Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables.

mce=off
Disable machine check
mce=no_cmci

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Disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that

Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is
not recommended, but it might be handy if your hardware
is misbehaving.
Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than with
due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get duplicated
error logs.
mce=dont_log_ce
Don't make logs for corrected errors. All events reported
as corrected are silently cleared by OS.
This option will be useful if you have no interest in any
of corrected errors.
mce=ignore_ce
Disable features for corrected errors, e.g. polling timer
and CMCI. All events reported as corrected are not cleared
by OS and remained in its error banks.
Usually this disablement is not recommended, however if
there is an agent checking/clearing corrected errors
(e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conficting
with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent,
then this option will be a help.
mce=bootlog
Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
to make sure you log even machine check events that result
in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
mce=nobootlog
Disable boot machine check logging.
mce=tolerancelevel[,monarchtimeout] (number,number)
tolerance levels:
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 is 1
Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable.
monarchtimeout:
Sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine checks. 0
to disable.

nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off

Everything else is in sysfs now.

Root Cause
The cron job will regenerate mcelog in /var/log/mcelog, so jus sop the mcelogd
service is not enough.
After adding mce=of in the kernel parameter line, /usr/sbin/mcelog command cannot
be run any more.

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Raw

$ cat /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/mcelog --ignorenodev --flter >> /var/log/mcelog

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management
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