From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754058AbXJaEm0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:42:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751535AbXJaEmP (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:42:15 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:41734 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751503AbXJaEmO (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:42:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:42:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Michael Stiller Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22.7 Machine Check Exception Message-Id: <20071030214205.b55e0688.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1193308858.3808.2.camel@blackberry> References: <1193308858.3808.2.camel@blackberry> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-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 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:40:58 +0200 Michael Stiller wrote: > Hi, > > i encountered the following machine check exceptions (and hangs) with > 2.6.22.7 on an Dual Core-2 Xeon System. It occurs if i try to use the > PCI-X Intel Gigabit Ethernet card after some minutes: > > CPU 3: Machine Check Exception 0000000000000005 > Bank 0: b200004010000400 > Bank 5: b200121020000400 > > or > > CPU 1: Machine Check Exception 0000000000000005 > Bank 0: b200004010000400 > Bank 5: b200121020000400 > > What is the cause? How can this be debugged? > I guess it means your hardware is sick. Presumably those two numbers were supposed to be the same. I assume this is the same machine as in your "2.6.22.7 reboots if PCI-X eth card is used for capture" report?