Re: [2.6.1 MCE falseness?] Hardware reports non-fatal error

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 07:18:32 EST


On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:03:01 +0000 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:44:16AM +0200, Niel Lambrechts wrote:
>
> > I get the following problem with 2.6.1 consistently after apm resuming:
> > "ksyrium kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable
> > incident occurred on CPU 0.
> >
> > Message from syslogd@ksyrium at Wed Jan 14 13:33:06 2004 ...
> > ksyrium kernel: Bank 1: f2000000000001c5"
>
> As it only happens when you resume from APM, I'm inclined to believe
> its a BIOS bug. With the output of dmidecode, we could blacklist this
> box to not do the nonfatal checking.

My Thinkpad T22 produces a similar warning on resume using APM:

kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.
kernel: Bank 1: f200000000000104

dmidecode output starts with:

# dmidecode 2.3
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
46 structures occupying 1585 bytes.
Table at 0x1FFF0000.
Handle 0x0000
DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
BIOS Information
Vendor: IBM
Version: 16ET31WW (1.11 )
Release Date: 03/20/2003
.
.
Handle 0x0001
DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
System Information
Manufacturer: IBM
Product Name: 26475EA

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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