Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:02:54 +0100 | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Subject | Re: [HW PROBLEM] Intel I7 MCE. Erratum or not? |
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Andi Kleen a écrit : > >> IIRC, this error is not what happen on the time [301.7320xx] during >> boot, but happen before the boot. Since the record says "Processor >> context corrupt," MCE handler should call panic(or do something stop >> the system) if the context actually corrupted during the boot. > > The weird thing is that 301 seconds is quite a long delay for that. > It should happen relatively quickly at boot as the CPUs are initialized. >
Rings a bell here
include/linux/jiffies.h:157:#define INITIAL_JIFFIES ((unsigned long)(unsigned int) (-300*HZ))
Could it be related to INITIAL_JIFFIES ?
>> >> In other words, it seems that 1) the error was recorded at last time >> when your machine crashed unexpectedly(by cosmic-ray etc.) and not >> cleared >> yet, or 2) your machine is doing something wrong in every reset/poweroff. > > When it happens consistently at each boot then yes it's likely something > leaking from the BIOS initialization sequence. Perhaps try a BIOS update? > >
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