diff --git a/drivers/ras/cec.c b/drivers/ras/cec.c
index 42f2fc0bc8a9..321af498ee11 100644
--- a/drivers/ras/cec.c
+++ b/drivers/ras/cec.c
@@ -556,6 +556,14 @@ static int __init cec_init(void)
 	if (ce_arr.disabled)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/*
+	 * Intel systems may avoid uncorrectable errors
+	 * if pages with corrected errors are aggressively
+	 * taken offline.
+	 */
+	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
+		action_threshold = 2;
+
 	ce_arr.array = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ce_arr.array) {
 		pr_err("Error allocating CE array page!\n");