lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Aug]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Machine check expection panic
> The CPU's aren't overclocked and have worked fine for
> me under much heavier loads than booting a kernel for

It could be corrected ECC errors in the cache. If that
happens I would consider it a hardware problem

(now hidden with the disabled bank).

> at least a year. Using the 2.4 kernel that is. Once
> I remove the exception code from the kernel it boots
> fine and runs fine under any load I put it under.

I maintain that such a magic hack needs at least a big fat comment.

I still find the change very suspicious, there isn't any errata that
says that bank 0 is bad on Athlon.

Also disabling a whole bank just for some buggy CPUs is quite a sledgehammer,
it would be probably better to identify the bank 0 sub unit that causes it
and only turn that off.

-Andi

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:47    [W:0.058 / U:0.156 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site