linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] (regression) AMD k6-III/450 won't boot w/2.6.22-rc1

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Message-Id: <20070516191156.69576DBA1@gherkin.frus.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 14:11:56 -0500 (CDT)
From:	rct@...rkin.frus.com (Bob Tracy)
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
CC:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@....com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] (regression) AMD k6-III/450 won't boot w/2.6.22-rc1

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:53:22AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>  > Bob Tracy wrote:
>  > > Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>  > >>> On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:13:14 -0500 (CDT) Bob Tracy wrote:
>  > >>>> The 2.6.22-rc1 boot panics early in amd_mcheck_init() with my k6-III/450.
>  > 
>  > > Intel machine check architecture supported.
>  > > general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
>  > > PREEMPT
>  > > Modules linked in:
>  > > CPU:   0
>  > > EIP: 0060:[<c01079f4>]  Not tainted VLI
>  > > EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.22-rc1 #1)
>  > > EIP is at amd_mcheck_init+0x2b/0xc3
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > rdmsr with ecx == 0x179 (Machine Check Global Capabilities Register)
>  > 
>  > Probably K6 doesn't have that.
> 
> sounds right. Intel style MCE capability was introduced with the Athlon
> on AMD systems iirc.
> 
>  > Caused by:
>  > 
>  > 	[PATCH] i386: check capability
> 
> Though this would imply that Bobs K6-3 is reporting that it does have
> that bit in its cpuid flags.
> 
> Bob, can you send your /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg |grep CPU  ?

/proc/cpuinfo sent in the first message in this thread (anticipated your
request :-)), but it's small enough to repeat:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 5
model		: 9
model name	: AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor
stepping	: 1
cpu MHz		: 451.040
cache size	: 256 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 1
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
bogomips	: 902.78
clflush size	: 32

Here's the requested dmesg output (for 2.6.21):

Initializing CPU#0
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor stepping 01
NVRM: CPU does not support the PAT, falling back to MTRRs.

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