From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Tim Mouraveiko <tim.ml@ipcopper.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software?
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 21:06:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180104200637.GC10427@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A4D7986.2138.FDC590CF@tim.ml.ipcopper.com>
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Hi!
> In all my years of extensive experience writing drivers and kernels, I never came across a situation
> where you could brick an x86 CPU. Not until recently, when I was working on debugging a piece of
> code and I bricked an Intel CPU. I am not talking about an experimental motherboard or anything
> exotic or an electrical issue where the CPU got fried, but before the software code execution the CPU
> was fine and then it´s dead. There were signs that something was not right, that the code was causing
> unusual behavior, which is what I was debugging.
>
> Has anyone else ever experienced a bricked CPU after executing software code? I just wanted to get
> input from the community to see if anyone had had any experience like that, since it seems rather
> unusual to me.
Never seen that before. Can you try to brick another one? :-).
You may want to remove AC power and battery, wait for half an hour,
then attempt to boot it...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-04 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 0:47 Bricked x86 CPU with software? Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-04 20:06 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-01-04 21:00 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-04 21:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-01-04 21:31 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-04 21:23 ` Pavel Machek
2018-01-04 22:13 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-04 22:40 ` Pavel Machek
2018-01-05 1:21 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-05 1:29 ` Hector Martin 'marcan'
2018-01-05 18:54 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-05 9:28 ` Pavel Machek
2018-01-06 1:08 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-06 10:19 ` Pavel Machek
2018-01-08 15:58 ` Tim Mouraveiko
[not found] ` <201801081920.21922.arekm@maven.pl>
2018-01-08 19:08 ` Tim Mouraveiko
[not found] ` <1515456557.4423.67.camel@infradead.org>
2018-01-09 21:48 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-08 23:32 ` Pavel Machek
2018-01-09 0:35 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-05 1:51 ` james harvey
2018-01-06 1:00 ` Tim Mouraveiko
2018-01-06 15:50 ` Nikolay Borisov
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