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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Tony Vroon <tony@vroon.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:04:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080908140417.GJ26079@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220876559.27320.2.camel@localhost>

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 01:22:39PM +0100, Tony Vroon wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 12:55 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > It unfortunately turns out that mcelog logging is a tricky
> > psychological problem. How should the warning above have
> > looked like so that you would not have required "peer insight"
> > and actually just contacted your hardware vendor? 
> 
> Indication of the faulty part, so I know whether to contact AMD or Tyan.
> Without a clear idea of which it could quickly turn into an infinite
> redirect loop between the two.

Ok so you wanted linux-kernel to diagnose your hardware for you?

For DIMMs you can get that with --dmi if you run the latest mcelog
and if it's a memory problem. 

Unfortunately the BIOS vendors in their wisdom often deliver incorrect
DMI tables, so the information is not always very useful.
 
-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-07  2:32 Tony Vroon
2008-09-07  3:16 ` Jeroen van Rijn
2008-09-07  4:22   ` Tony Vroon
2008-09-08 10:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 11:13   ` Jeroen van Rijn
2008-09-08 12:22   ` Tony Vroon
2008-09-08 14:04     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-09-08 15:52       ` Tony Vroon
2008-09-08 16:25         ` Jeroen van Rijn
2008-09-08 13:55   ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-08 14:00     ` Andi Kleen

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