Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753652AbYLIL7u (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:59:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752685AbYLIL7l (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:59:41 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f29.google.com ([209.85.217.29]:42839 "EHLO mail-gx0-f29.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752499AbYLIL7k (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:59:40 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=cslyUrdRUTik+TmYnQRqIb6MbYRlzk4Voo+75Tv5FAL/O/YSZRu87vq+jIGLH3epPT HPBqr/9DsqdVe3rpAehQsbB5mrxorCDWM111J5zc3oOv1W/W+K7LYZdir/GIj6oDZeZb jM0XpYAbUwC0qh0TBfhTPcf6YdD8HJFwrSGiw= Message-ID: <12bfabe40812090357s77a7fca8ya35747d9f5afd2d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:57:12 +0100 From: "Giangiacomo Mariotti" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not? Cc: "Andi Kleen" , "Hidetoshi Seto" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Robert Hancock" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <871vwheg9o.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <12bfabe40812060421j10c93b3dg75a48aa304f633e8@mail.gmail.com> <12bfabe40812072248n3c931ce0hf030b3ac758026d4@mail.gmail.com> <493CCFE4.2080802@jp.fujitsu.com> <12bfabe40812080004p7438744eqeb884b42673bd73c@mail.gmail.com> <493CEAA0.50201@jp.fujitsu.com> <493CEF38.3060004@linux.intel.com> <493CF65B.30408@jp.fujitsu.com> <493D0D42.2090203@linux.intel.com> <12bfabe40812082154y188e9167vd37589b758d9868d@mail.gmail.com> <871vwheg9o.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1371 Lines: 38 On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Giangiacomo Mariotti" writes: > >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >>> Also it might be really some problem with this particular CPU. >>> >>> -Andi >>> >> It might be interesting to notice that booting a different distro and > > Does that different distro have machine checks enabled, was > mcelog installed and did you wait 5 minutes for mcelog's cronjob to run? > That distro is SystemRescueCd v1.1.3(2.6.27.7) 64bit and yes it has MCE enabled and it logged the usual single MCE after booting into it. From there I mounted my debian 64 bit(2.6.27.8) partition, chrooted into it and kexeced my 64bit 2.6.27.8(which, if booted directly from power up, gives the usual single MCE after boot) kernel and this time no MCE appeared. I still haven't rebooted and no MCE appeared. >> then doing a kexec from that into my 2.6.27.8 make the mce log >> disappear. > > Yes of course if it comes out of BIOS POST then there won't be another > one on kexec. > > -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/