From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753712AbYIHNyq (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:54:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752008AbYIHNyi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:54:38 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:43297 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751901AbYIHNyi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:54:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:55:58 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Andi Kleen Cc: Tony Vroon , LKML Subject: Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h) Message-ID: <20080908135558.GA31784@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1220754742.8530.12.camel@localhost> <87abeivrdf.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87abeivrdf.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. If you really want me to contact hw vendor, you need to be a lot more specific. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html