https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Revision c7f6fa44115d401e89db730f357629d39f8e4ba6 authored by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz on 28 July 2009, 21:52:54 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 17 August 2009, 08:17:02 UTC
On my legacy Pentium M laptop (Acer Extensa 2900) I get bogus MCE on a cold
boot with CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE enabled, i.e. (after decoding it with mcelog):

MCE 0
HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
Please contact your hardware vendor
CPU 0 BANK 1 MCG status:
MCi status:
Error overflow
Uncorrected error
Error enabled
Processor context corrupt
MCA: Data CACHE Level-1 UNKNOWN Error
STATUS f200000000000195 MCGSTATUS 0

[ The other STATUS values observed: f2000000000001b5 (... UNKNOWN error)
  and f200000000000115 (... READ Error).

  To verify that this is not a CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE bug I also modified
  the CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE code (which doesn't log any MCEs) to dump
  content of STATUS MSR before it is cleared during initialization. ]

Since the bogus MCE results in a kernel taint (which in turn disables
lockdep support) don't log boot MCEs on Pentium M (model == 13) CPUs
by default ("mce=bootlog" boot parameter can be be used to get the old
behavior).

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
1 parent 52459ab
History
Tip revision: c7f6fa44115d401e89db730f357629d39f8e4ba6 authored by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz on 28 July 2009, 21:52:54 UTC
x86, mce: don't log boot MCEs on Pentium M (model == 13) CPUs
Tip revision: c7f6fa4
File Mode Size
Documentation
arch
block
crypto
drivers
firmware
fs
include
init
ipc
kernel
lib
mm
net
samples
scripts
security
sound
tools
usr
virt
.gitignore -rw-r--r-- 952 bytes
.mailmap -rw-r--r-- 3.9 KB
COPYING -rw-r--r-- 18.3 KB
CREDITS -rw-r--r-- 91.8 KB
Kbuild -rw-r--r-- 2.4 KB
MAINTAINERS -rw-r--r-- 148.2 KB
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 53.9 KB
README -rw-r--r-- 17.0 KB
REPORTING-BUGS -rw-r--r-- 3.1 KB

README

back to top