From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753514AbYIHKzw (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:55:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751916AbYIHKzo (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:55:44 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51453 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751770AbYIHKzn (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:55:43 -0400 To: Tony Vroon Cc: LKML Subject: Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h) From: Andi Kleen References: <1220754742.8530.12.camel@localhost> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:55:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1220754742.8530.12.camel@localhost> (Tony Vroon's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:32:22 +0100") Message-ID: <87abeivrdf.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tony Vroon 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 tags in syslog would be useful to solve this)