Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753237AbYJYGwn (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:52:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752000AbYJYGwf (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:52:35 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:58544 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752062AbYJYGwe (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:52:34 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:00:13 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Felix von Leitner Cc: Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing list Subject: Re: MCEs Message-ID: <20081025070013.GJ27492@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20081024124502.GA9425@codeblau.de> <87r66598eq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20081024230748.GA21365@codeblau.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081024230748.GA21365@codeblau.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 36 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:07:48AM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote: > > It's some sort of hardware problem, debugging it typically > > either involves fixing the cooling or exchanging components. > > Using an older kernel I get actual MCE messages that I can write down > and decode using mcelog. You mean when you switch back to the old kernel it's recoverable and then switch to the new kernel it is not? If yes then bisect it please. > > It looks like the MCE handler is buggy in current kernels and will cause > a panic instead of the MCE messages (or maybe in addition to and the The CPU tells the kernel if a machine check should cause a panic or not. Usually when you actually get an MC _E_xception it's panic time. > panic obscures them by scrolling them out of my 80x25 screen). Panic should be one line, unless you're bitten by the 2.6.27 smp_call_function in panic bug (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11569) Please post concrete logs from a serial or netconsole. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/