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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:21:52 +0100 (MET)
From: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@sch.bme.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: "APIC error on CPUx" - what does this mean?
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But what do these messages mean?

Are they some kind of retryable errors?
Do they have any consequences?

Thanks.

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I just noticed the following events in my system log:
> >
> >   Jan  3 14:03:39 mercury kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(02)
> >   Jan  3 14:03:39 mercury kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(02)
> >
> > Please let me know if I can provide any additional info needed to diagnose
> > this error.
>
> The occasional APIC error is fine (its logging a hardware event - probably
> something that caused enough noise to lose a message and retry it). The
> APIC bus is designed to stand these occasional errors
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