From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is MCE?
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:47:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031227184748.7db5c126.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <173d01c3cceb$08c0cda0$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60>
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:33:24 +0900 "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp> wrote:
| Sometimes:
| MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU
| 0.
| Bank 3: e20000000002010a
|
| Sometimes:
| MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU
| 0.
| Bank 3: a200000000080a01
|
| Obviously this isn't a Linux error, Linux is being kind enough to report a
| hardware error to me, but I don't know how to interpret these error flags.
| I don't even know what MCE is but whoever developed it for Linux surely must
| know. Please, how can I find out what this is?
It's an x86 Machine Check Exception, documented in the Intel
IA-32 docs. And probably in some other x86-like docs.
There's a 'parsemce' program around that attempts to decode some
of those bits. It might or might not help you out.
It's in this directory:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/tools/
--
~Randy
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2003-12-28 2:33 Norman Diamond
2003-12-28 2:47 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-12-28 2:50 ` Joshua Kwan
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