From: Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@disenchant.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata timeout, MCE and kernel panic
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:53:24 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080724002324.GK3930@cubit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080724004928.226f892a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:49:28AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > recovery was required. It seems the journal recovery combined with the
> > md device reconstruction was enough to cause an ata command
> > timeout. After that I saw several MCEs and the kernel paniced.
>
> An MCE is amachine check, and indicates the hardware detected a problem.
> Given the sequence of heavy I/O, followed by a timeout and the processors
> detecting inconsistencies - is your PSU sufficient ?
Hmm, you may be on to something there. This machine was designed with
two disksoriginally, but due to a hardware failure on another machine
it's actually running with 5 (off a 450W redundant PSU). I have bigger
replacement PSUs on the way, so here's hoping that resolves it. Thanks
for the reply.
Regards,
Kevin.
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2008-07-23 23:35 libata timeout, MCE and kernel panic Kevin Shanahan
2008-07-23 23:49 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-24 0:23 ` Kevin Shanahan [this message]
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