From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755034Ab1HUCb2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:31:28 -0400 Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:48900 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302Ab1HUCb1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:31:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4E506DEA.1070601@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:31:06 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andi Kleen Subject: using mce_inject I get: RIP 10: {ttm_bo_unref+0xf/0x45 [ttm]} Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org not sure if I am running mce_test correctly, but during its routine of testing things I do get a pause with everything, then the below shows up in dmesg..: http://fpaste.org/kMRd/ [ 1810.670434] Triggering MCE exception on CPU 1 [ 1810.670462] [Hardware Error]: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 6 Bank 4: b300000000000000 [ 1810.670467] [Hardware Error]: RIP 73:<0000000012343434> [ 1810.670470] [Hardware Error]: TSC 38d1002c216 [ 1810.670474] [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:6f6 TIME 1313892803 SOCKET 0 APIC 1 [ 1810.670477] [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii' [ 1810.670481] [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Processor context corrupt [ 1810.670483] [Hardware Error]: Fake kernel panic: Fatal Machine check [ 1810.670495] MCE exception done on CPU 1 [ 1819.064721] Triggering MCE exception on CPU 1 seems light of a pause, then everything resumes properly(music, etc..). Is this something that needs attention, or are these tests as extreme as can be, and should simply be ignored? (Note: if there is a mce list somewhere let me know so I direct this to the proper people) Justin P. Mattock