Re: Opteron fatal machine check during PCI probe

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:06:02 -0700
Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I have a couple dual Opteron boxen that consistently gets an MCE during
> PCI probing. This is from linux-2.6.6, but the EXACT same scenario happens
> on a 2.4.x kernel.

> The MCE shows that the error is an IO read, with the address 0xfdfc000cfe.
> The RIP points to pci_conf1_read(), when we try to inw() from the PCI data
> register.

Is it an master abort (0x100 set in MC4_STATUS) ?
If yes it's an BIOS issue, the BIOS are supposed to disable that one.

> This is called during the PCI probing, and stops the kernel dead in it's
> tracks.  The disassembly of the surrounding code is:
> 
> ffffffff802822c5:	89 ca                	mov    %ecx,%edx
> ffffffff802822c7:	83 e2 02             	and    $0x2,%edx
> ffffffff802822ca:	66 81 c2 fc 0c       	add    $0xcfc,%dx
> ffffffff802822cf:	66 ed                	in     (%dx),%ax
> 
> This all seems legit to me.
> 
> What is interesting is that the address 0xfdfc000cfe is correct in the
> low-order 16 bits.  The extra 0xfdfc000000 is what is puzzling to me, or
> maybe it's a red herring.

It is. in only uses 16 bits of its operand.


-Andi