Subject: Re: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express messages
From: Jurgen Kramer <gtm.kramer@inter.nl.net>
Reply-To: gtm.kramer@inter.nl.net
To: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:18:04 +0200
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On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:22 -0800, Dave Peterson wrote:
> On Friday 31 March 2006 00:25, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > With 2.6.16 (from FC5s 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5smp) I am getting a lot of
> >
> > Mar 31 09:35:16 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> > Mar 31 09:35:17 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> > Mar 31 09:35:17 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> > Mar 31 09:35:18 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> > Mar 31 09:35:18 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> > Mar 31 09:35:20 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> > Mar 31 09:35:20 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> > Mar 31 09:35:39 paragon kernel: Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B
> >
> > messages which presumably come from
> >
> > Mar 31 09:17:15 paragon kernel: MC: drivers/edac/edac_mc.c version
> > edac_mc  Ver: 2.0.0 Mar 28 2006
> > Mar 31 09:17:15 paragon kernel: EDAC MC0: Giving out device to
> > "e752x_edac" E7525: PCI 0000:00:00.0
> >
> > Is there really something broken here of just a noisy driver?
> >
> > BTW this is on a Asus NCT-D mobo with Intel E7525 chipset.
> >
> > Jurgen
> 
> Hi Jurgen,
> 
> I haven't seen this particular error before, and I can't say for sure
> whether it's a genuine problem that should be dealt with or just a
> minor annoyance that can be safely ignored.  EDAC is a relatively new
> piece of code, and still very much a work in progress.  If this is in
> fact a benign type of error, EDAC should provide a mechanism by which
> a sysadmin can silence it.  This is an area of future work.
> 
> I'm forwarding your message to the bluesmoke mailing list just in
> case anyone who reads that list has seen instances of this error in
> the past and can provide more info on it.
> 
> Dave

Hi Dave,

So far the system is running just fine. For reference, so far I found 92
"Non-Fatal Error PCI Express B" messages since the system was booted 8
hours ago.

BTW Dave Jones reported similar problems on the LKML: 
 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/26/381

Cheers,

Jurgen


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