From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753093AbYIHN5H (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:57:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752452AbYIHN4x (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:56:53 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45481 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752852AbYIHN4x (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:56:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:00:27 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andi Kleen , Tony Vroon , LKML Subject: Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h) Message-ID: <20080908140027.GI26079@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1220754742.8530.12.camel@localhost> <87abeivrdf.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080908135558.GA31784@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080908135558.GA31784@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:55:58PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2008-09-08 12:55:40, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Tony Vroon writes: > > > > > HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > Please contact your hardware vendor > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > I realize that the linux kernel may be entirely blameless in this > > > situation, > > > > It is, like mcelog told you. > > Ugh, actually this is not right. AFAIK MCEs can be triggered by stuff > like PCI aborts, which in turn can be caused by software. PCI aborts don't normally cause machine checks, no. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com