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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 05:16:00 +0200
From: "Jeroen van Rijn" <jvrnix@gmail.com>
To: "Tony Vroon" <tony@vroon.org>
Subject: Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h)
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On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Tony Vroon <tony@vroon.org> wrote:
> On a Tyan-based system with intermittent but persistent instability, I
> have finally received a message that something might actually be wrong
> in hardware. Could you decode:
>
> MCE 0
> HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
> Please contact your hardware vendor
> CPU 0 BANK 4 MISC c000000001000000
> STATUS fa00002000020c0f MCGSTATUS 0
> MCE 1
> HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
> Please contact your hardware vendor
> CPU 4 BANK 4 MISC c000000001000000
> STATUS fa00000000070f0f MCGSTATUS 0

Hi Tony,

Not easily, and it's too late to parse
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c and find out what it means before
I nod off. Still, before I sign off, have you tried running "mcelog
--ascii"? It needs to be run on the machine the check occured on. It
might give you something to go on before the cavalry arrives.

Best regards,
  Jeroen.