Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:03:01 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Niel Lambrechts <antispam@absamail.co.za>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.1 MCE falseness?] Hardware reports non-fatal error
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:44:16AM +0200, Niel Lambrechts wrote:

 > I get the following problem with 2.6.1 consistently after apm resuming:
 > "ksyrium kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable
 > incident occurred on CPU 0.
 > 
 > Message from syslogd@ksyrium at Wed Jan 14 13:33:06 2004 ...
 > ksyrium kernel: Bank 1: f2000000000001c5"

As it only happens when you resume from APM, I'm inclined to believe
its a BIOS bug.  With the output of dmidecode, we could blacklist this
box to not do the nonfatal checking.

 > It does not happen on any other kernels I use (vanilla 2.4.24, SuSE 9
 > 2.4.21-166) - even though CONFIG_X86_MCE=y for both. The equipment is
 > brand-new - an IBM Thinkpad R50P - and it passes all IBM's s/w
 > diagnostic.

None of the other kernels you mention have this, its a new feature of 2.6

		Dave

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