Adding upstream version 6.6.15.upstream/6.6.15

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+What:		/sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/tolerant
+Contact:	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
+Date:		Dec, 2021
+Description:
+		Unused and obsolete after the advent of recoverable machine
+		checks (see last sentence below) and those are present since
+		2010 (Nehalem).
+
+		Original description:
+
+		The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
+		between all CPUs.
+
+		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.