linux-kernel - Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software?

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Message-ID: <20180104212334.GA17986@amd>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2018 22:23:34 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Tim Mouraveiko <tim.ml@...opper.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bricked x86 CPU with software?

Hi!

> As I mentioned before, I repeatedly and fully power-cycled the motherboard and reset BIOS
> and etc. It made no difference. I can see that the processor was not drawing any power. The
> software code behaved in a similar fashion on other processors, until I fixed it so that it would
> not kill any more processors.
> 

So you have code that killed more than one processor? Save it! We want
a copy.

Do you have model numbers of affected CPUs?
									Pavel

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