Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:
> #
> diff -Nru a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c Wed Aug 6 23:33:40 2003
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/k7.c Wed Aug 6 23:33:40 2003
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
> wrmsr (MSR_IA32_MCG_CTL, 0xffffffff, 0xffffffff);
> nr_mce_banks = l & 0xff;
>
> - for (i=0; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
> + for (i=1; i<nr_mce_banks; i++) {
The change looks rather suspicious to me.
Bank 0 is the data cache unit (DC)
Do you have an errata that says that the DC bank is bad on all Athlons?
Normally BIOS or microcode are supposed to turn off bad MCEs by
masking them in another register. Maybe the person's CPU has a
real problem that is just masked now, e.g. it could be overclocked
and stress the cache too much.
The original MCE was:
Status: (4) Machine Check in progress.
Restart IP invalid.
parsebank(0): f606200000000833 @ 4040
External tag parity error
Uncorrectable ECC error
CPU state corrupt. Restart not possible
Address in addr register valid
Error enabled in control register
Error not corrected.
Error overflow
Bus and interconnect error
Participation: Local processor originated request
Timeout: Request did not timeout
Request: Generic error
Transaction type : Instruction
Memory/IO : Other
Tyan 2466 motherboard
2 Athon MP 1200 processors (1200?)
-Andi
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