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PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR - clear the machine check memory corruption kill policy

NAME  LIBRARY  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  RETURN VALUE  FILES  STANDARDS  HISTORY  SEE ALSO 

NAME

PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR − clear the machine check memory corruption kill policy

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc−lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <linux/prctl.h> /* Definition of PR_* constants */
#include <sys/prctl.h>

int prctl(PR_MCE_KILL, PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR, 0L, 0L, 0L);

DESCRIPTION

Clear the thread memory corruption kill policy and use the system-wide default.

RETURN VALUE

On success, 0 is returned. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

FILES

/proc/sys/vm/memory_failure_early_kill

This file defines the system-wide default.

STANDARDS

Linux.

HISTORY

Linux 2.6.32.

SEE ALSO

prctl(2), PR_MCE_KILL(2const), proc_sys_vm(5)


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se