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From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: Mike Bakhterev <mike.bakhterev@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: boot failure on i7-3317u in Samsung 900x3c
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:09:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349690974.15966.113.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACx33gg6Hmh8E0Mv5TLdi5ufZcppHMws8XAdfaThF_Y2QBb5vA@mail.gmail.com>

(Cc'ing some arch and MCE folks since my MCE-foo is weak)

On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 00:43 +0600, Mike Bakhterev wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> When i'm trying to boot the subject maching in UEFI mode i get
> sometimes machine check exception 0xbe2000000003110a (i was not able
> to decode this, as some bits are not covered in Intel's Manuals). It
> emerges when i am booting 3.4.x, 3.5.4 and 3.5.5 kernels from
> ArchLinux. When i am booting from SSD i get this error all the time,
> when i'm booting from USB stick i get this sometimes (quite frequently
> and the probability to boot succesfully is increased when i specify
> "verbose" kernel option). I'm booting with systemd. The sytems boots
> always successfully, when i use the installation ArchLinux image,
> which is shipped with 3.5 kernel and boots in BIOS mode with
> traditional initscripts.

We've seen things like this before on Samsung laptops,

	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

We attributed it to a buggy UEFI implementation.
	
> It looks like race condition when configuring memory or something like this.
> 
> It is not hardware error, because Windows 7 and 8 boot and run fine.
> And this is my second unit, because the first one was broken
> (something with motherboard) when running Windows 8, and Linux on that
> broken machine reported the same MCE. Now Windows works OK (if you
> could say, it works), and Linux reports the same MCEs.

So both Windows 7 and 8 boot successfully on your new laptop, but every
OS failed with the *same* MCE error on your first? That is interesting. 

Does anyone have a clue how to diagnose this further? I still think it's
a buggy UEFI implementation, especially since it ships with a CSM. Is it
possible that these MCE errors are non-fatal on Win 7/8?

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-08 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-07 18:43 boot failure on i7-3317u in Samsung 900x3c Mike Bakhterev
2012-10-08 10:09 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2012-10-08 15:17   ` Mike Bakhterev
2012-10-08 16:45     ` Matt Fleming
2012-10-08 17:50       ` Mike Bakhterev
2012-10-08 18:05         ` Luck, Tony

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