Re: MCE Error - 2.5.24 - Whats this?

[Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>]

I don't understand that decoded result ;) 

Is it a phony result or is there a real problem with the CPU itself?
It's brand new!


On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 03:50, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:20:57AM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > I got this message this evening from the syslog:
> > 
> > 
> > MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on
> > CPU 0.
> > 
> > Bank 0: 9409c00000000136
> > 
> > 
> > Is this something I should be worried about?
> > 
> > Included is the standard dmesg.
> 
> Dave Jones had a small parser for these codes:
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cruft/parsemce.c
> 
> And as it seems the parser lacks a bit of information to completely
> decode the message:
> 
> ~ ./parsemce
> Status: (4) Machine Check in progress.
> Restart IP invalid.
> parsebank(0): 9409c00000000136 @ 0
>         External tag parity error
>         Uncorrectable ECC error
>         CPU state corrupt. Restart not possible
>         MISC register information valid
>         Error not corrected.
>         Error overflow
>         Memory heirarchy error
>         Request: Generic error
>         Transaction type : Data
>         Memory/IO : I/O
> 
> > Linux version 2.5.24 (root@unknown) (gcc version 3.1) #1 Sat Jun 22 14:58:48 EDT 2002
> ...
> 
> -alex
> 
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