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

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Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:04:18 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.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?


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

I wouldn't expect an SMI causing an internal cache machine check. That really
looks more like something that comes out of the initialization code. But
I haven't see it on any Nehalem system so far.

Also it might be really some problem with this particular CPU.

-Andi


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