From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264935AbTL1CxY (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:53:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264940AbTL1CxY (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:53:24 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:15828 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264935AbTL1CxX (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:53:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:47:48 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "Norman Diamond" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What is MCE? Message-Id: <20031227184748.7db5c126.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <173d01c3cceb$08c0cda0$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> References: <173d01c3cceb$08c0cda0$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:33:24 +0900 "Norman Diamond" 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