Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h)
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Sep 08 2008 - 06:55:52 EST
Tony Vroon <tony@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
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> Please contact your hardware vendor
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> 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)
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