Provide comand line keyword "nomca" to turn off mca processing in kernel.

Initial patch by Jesse Barnes, fixed by Ken Chen, rescued from
obscurity by Sourav Sen.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c

@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ static int cpe_poll_enabled = 1;
 
 extern void salinfo_log_wakeup(int type, u8 *buffer, u64 size, int irqsafe);
 
+static int mca_init;
+
 /*
  * IA64_MCA log support
  */
@@ -1317,6 +1319,7 @@ ia64_mca_init(void)
 	ia64_log_init(SAL_INFO_TYPE_CMC);
 	ia64_log_init(SAL_INFO_TYPE_CPE);
 
+	mca_init = 1;
 	printk(KERN_INFO "MCA related initialization done\n");
 }
 
@@ -1333,6 +1336,9 @@ ia64_mca_init(void)
 static int __init
 ia64_mca_late_init(void)
 {
+	if (!mca_init)
+		return 0;
+
 	/* Setup the CMCI/P vector and handler */
 	init_timer(&cmc_poll_timer);
 	cmc_poll_timer.function = ia64_mca_cmc_poll;

arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c

@@ -375,9 +375,10 @@ setup_arch (char **cmdline_p)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	/* enable IA-64 Machine Check Abort Handling */
-	ia64_mca_init();
-
+	/* enable IA-64 Machine Check Abort Handling unless disabled */
+	if (!strstr(saved_command_line, "nomca"))
+		ia64_mca_init();
+	
 	platform_setup(cmdline_p);
 	paging_init();
 }