linux-kernel - Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2017 21:31:47 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@...mayhu.com>
Cc:     Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ra.org>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>, tony.luck@...el.com,
        linux@...mhuis.info, len.brown@...el.com,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Alexander Alemayhu wrote:
> Not sure if it is related, but I am also seeing those messages on my
> MacBookPro11,3:

Yours look to me like thermal throttling MCEs. And TBH we whould
not issue those as actual MCEs because they are not - they *signal*
overheating condition only and should be handled differently.

What does your /var/log/mcelog* log file contain?

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