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

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Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:31:47 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Giangiacomo Mariotti" <gg.mariotti@...il.com>
Cc:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Hidetoshi Seto" <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.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?

"Giangiacomo Mariotti" <gg.mariotti@...il.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Also it might be really some problem with this particular CPU.
>>
>> -Andi
>>
> It might be interesting to notice that booting a different distro and

Does that different distro have machine checks enabled, was
mcelog installed and did you wait 5 minutes for mcelog's cronjob to run? 

> then doing a kexec from that into my 2.6.27.8 make the mce log
> disappear.

Yes of course if it comes out of BIOS POST then there won't be another
one on kexec.

-Andi

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