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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: lkml@nitwit.de
Cc: Eric <eric@cisu.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0.
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:40:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040114044045.GA23845@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401101816.22612.lkml@nitwit.de>

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:16:22PM +0100, lkml@nitwit.de wrote:

 > > 	Check your hardware CPU/MOBO/RAM. Overheating? Bad Ram? Cheap mobo?
 > > MCE should not be triggered under any circumstances unless it is a kernel
 > > bug(RARE, I believe the MCE code is simple) or you REALLY have a hardware
 > > problem. As said before, the bios is resetting your fsb to 100 as a
 > > fail-safe because something bad happened.
 > 
 > Well, my system did run very stable and in the meantime again does run very 
 > stable on both, 2.4.21 and Windows XP...

Neither of which check for the presence of these errors.

 > > > What the fuck is going on here?? As far as I figured out this has
 > > > something to do with MCE (CONFIG_X86_MCE=y, CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y)
 > > > (?).
 > >
 > > 	Leave it enabled, its a good thing to tell you when you have bad hardware.
 > > Its not a kernel problem, but a feature.
 > 
 > Well, it is a good thing to tell me, but it's not a good thing to make my 
 > system auto-reset itself before reaching the BIOS afterwards...

The non-fatal MCE code doesn't do anything like that.  Any odd side-effects that you
observed were very likely due to whatever caused the MCE in the first place.


		Dave


      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-14  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09 16:48 2.6: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0 lkml
2004-01-09 17:35 ` Jesper Juhl
     [not found]   ` <200401091856.16120.lkml@nitwit.de>
2004-01-09 18:10     ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 23:12 ` Eric
2004-01-09 23:30   ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-10 17:16   ` lkml
2004-01-14  4:40     ` Dave Jones [this message]

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