linux-kernel - Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not?

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Message-ID: <493CF65B.30408@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:26:35 +0900
From:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Giangiacomo Mariotti <gg.mariotti@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not?

Andi Kleen wrote:
> The weird thing is that 301 seconds is quite a long delay for that.
> It should happen  relatively quickly at boot as the CPUs are initialized.

Indeed.

> When it happens consistently at each boot then yes it's likely something
> leaking from the BIOS initialization sequence. Perhaps try a BIOS update?

I'm not sure but is it make sense if SMI causes an error and dropped MCE
exception without clearing error record?

Thanks,
H.Seto

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