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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Tony Vroon <tony@vroon.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h)
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:55:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abeivrdf.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220754742.8530.12.camel@localhost> (Tony Vroon's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:32:22 +0100")

Tony Vroon <tony@vroon.org> writes:

> HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Please contact your hardware vendor
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I realize that the linux kernel may be entirely blameless in this
> situation,

It is, like mcelog told you.

> but I'd like to have some peer insight before I run after
> vendors.

It unfortunately turns out that mcelog logging is a tricky
psychological problem. How should the warning above have
looked like so that you would not have required "peer insight"
and actually just contacted your hardware vendor? 

Thank you.

-Andi (who wonders if <blink> tags in syslog would be useful 
to solve this)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-07  2:32 Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h) Tony Vroon
2008-09-07  3:16 ` Jeroen van Rijn
2008-09-07  4:22   ` Tony Vroon
2008-09-08 10:55 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-09-08 11:13   ` Jeroen van Rijn
2008-09-08 12:22   ` Tony Vroon
2008-09-08 14:04     ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 15:52       ` Tony Vroon
2008-09-08 16:25         ` Jeroen van Rijn
2008-09-08 13:55   ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-08 14:00     ` Andi Kleen

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