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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Legend W." <mrwangxc@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Machine Check Exception !
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:04:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135991096.28365.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71a51c440512261852u593a2795y@mail.gmail.com>

On Maw, 2005-12-27 at 10:52 +0800, Legend W. wrote:
> parsebank(0): b20000001040080f @ 3
>         External tag parity error
>         CPU state corrupt. Restart not possible
>         Error enabled in control register
>         Error not corrected.
>         Bus and interconnect error
>         Participation: Local processor originated request
>         Timeout: Request did not timeout
>         Request: Generic error
>         Transaction type : Invalid
>         Memory/IO : Other
> 
> Can anybody please enlighten me what this means or what a possible
> problem behind might be?

Executive summary - your hardware is broken. In this case its reporting
a parity error on external tag bits - presumably cache bits. "Contact
your system vendor for advice" as they say 8)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-31  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-27  2:52 Machine Check Exception ! Legend W.
2005-12-27  6:46 ` Nauman Tahir
2005-12-27 17:51   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  1:04 ` Alan Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-25 18:37 Machine Check Exception ? Dana Lacoste
2002-01-25 18:48 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-25 10:47 Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-25 12:37 ` Marcel Kunath
2002-01-25 16:36   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-25 17:22     ` Dave Jones
2002-01-25 16:47   ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-25 12:40 ` Denis Oliver Kropp
2002-01-25 13:17 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-25 13:26   ` Denis Oliver Kropp

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