Re: MCEs

From: Felix von Leitner
Date: Sat Oct 25 2008 - 06:05:30 EST


Thus spake Andi Kleen (andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > Using an older kernel I get actual MCE messages that I can write down
> > and decode using mcelog.
> You mean when you switch back to the old kernel it's recoverable
> and then switch to the new kernel it is not?

No it's not recoverable but I get the error messages and can write them
down. Previously I just got the stack dump.

> > panic obscures them by scrolling them out of my 80x25 screen).
> Panic should be one line, unless you're bitten by the 2.6.27
> smp_call_function in panic bug (see
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11569)

That's exactly what happened.

Felix
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