Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2000 02:33:55 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Problems with bluesmoke.c in 2.2.17 |
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Hi!
> e other day I got the patch for 2.2.17 and after just over a day of normal > > operation, while my sister was playing kpat (KDE solitaire) yesterday > > afternoon, X died and dropped her out to the console. > > After she told me about it later on I found this at the bottom of my dmesg: > > > > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000400000000<0>Bank 3: b200000000080a01general protection fault: 0000 > > Ok I print low,high which was wrong - it should read 0000000000000004 > which is 'machine check in progress' > > So its a real machinme check > > > CPU: 0 > > EIP: 0010:[<c010e59b>] > > Oh beautiful. This is wonderful. I've been hoping for a chance to test the MCE > code. Ok you might not agree 8) > > Right there is missing \n I'll go fix but the rest of it says > > b2 - register valid, uncorrected error, error enabled > 0008 - model specific data > 0a01 - memory access, > generic error > l1 cache > processor responding to request
Does that mean that processor itself detected that its L1 cache s failing and was honest enough to tell the OS?
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