linux-kernel - Re: 5.6.12 MCE on AMD EPYC 7502

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Message-ID: <20200529193236.GA4005540@yaz-nikka.amd.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 14:32:36 -0500
From:   Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 5.6.12 MCE on AMD EPYC 7502

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:57:20AM -0400, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 01:55:29PM +0300, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm facing the following kernel messages running Debian 9 with
> > custom 5.6.12 kernel running on AMD EPYC 7502 - based hardware:
> > 
> > [138537.806814] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
> > [138537.806818] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no action required.
> > [138537.808456] [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 (17:31:0) MC27_STATUS[Over|CE|MiscV|-|-|-|SyndV|-|-|-]: 0xd82000000002080b
> > [138537.810080] [Hardware Error]: IPID: 0x0001002e00001e01, Syndrome: 0x000000005a000005
> > [138537.811694] [Hardware Error]: Power, Interrupts, etc. Ext. Error Code: 2, Link Error.
> > [138537.813281] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: IO, mem-tx: GEN, part-proc: SRC (no timeout)
> > 
> > Is it related to some (not so) known CPU errata?
> 
> Who knows.
>

There aren't any reported errata related to this that I could find.

> > Should I try to update microcode, motherboard firmware, kernel, or whatever else?
> 
> Yeah, BIOS update might be a good idea, if there's a newer version for
> your board.
>

I agree. The link settings are generally tuned for the platform. So the
platform vendor may have a fix.

Thanks,
Yazen