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diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/trunk/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here.
 
 Machine check
 
+   Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck for sysfs runtime tunables.
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    mce=off disable machine check
    mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
                Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck b/trunk/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ check_interval
 	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.
+	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