Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754789AbYLGWM0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:12:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752179AbYLGWMS (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:12:18 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:55533 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751991AbYLGWMR (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2008 17:12:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:13:37 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Giangiacomo Mariotti" Cc: "Robert Hancock" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not? Message-ID: <20081207141337.588aede5@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <12bfabe40812071355r65c13e52g5f3d94d3b060c939@mail.gmail.com> References: <12bfabe40812060421j10c93b3dg75a48aa304f633e8@mail.gmail.com> <493AE770.5030507@shaw.ca> <12bfabe40812061343j400f55d8r43571c8bd514adde@mail.gmail.com> <493AF2EA.4030601@shaw.ca> <12bfabe40812061416u1b6f800dn7261beae5ce36b2f@mail.gmail.com> <493B4242.1040202@shaw.ca> <12bfabe40812071355r65c13e52g5f3d94d3b060c939@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1990 Lines: 43 On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:55:10 +0100 "Giangiacomo Mariotti" wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Robert Hancock > wrote: > > > > If it only happened once then who knows, could be a cosmic ray or > > something.. but if it happens again it sounds like you likely have > > a bad CPU. > > > This same MCE happens every time I boot the 2.6.27.8 kernel, but it > never happens with kernel 2.6.26.8. It appears every time at log time > [ 301.7320xx](where the x represent the scale of the approximation). > In the previous log it appeared at [ 301.732037], now it appeared at > [ 301.732042]. It happens just once at that moment and then never > more until I reboot. No MCE gets logged with kernel 2.6.26.8 nor with > Windows Vista 32bit, not even under very heavy load on memory and > cpu(like 3d games or 3d mark vintage). Is this really an hardware > problem? Why does it get logged only on kernel 2.6.27.8 at that exact > moment? Now I'm gonna compile kernel 2.6.28-rc7 and see if there it > happens too. Any suggestion? It would be appreciated, because, > depending on the final result, I may be forced to change the > hardware(It's still guaranteed, but it'd mean some months without a > pc). which video driver are you using? While your HW might be defective (MCE's tend to indicate that), if it's software dependent it might also indicate that something, usually a video driver, gets the system in a really bad state. Also, make sure that you have MCE enabled in both kernels (I'm sure you do, but it's one of those things worth double checking) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/