Re: 5.6.12 MCE on AMD EPYC 7502

From: Yazen Ghannam
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 15:32:52 EST


On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:57:20AM -0400, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 01:55:29PM +0300, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm facing the following kernel messages running Debian 9 with
> > custom 5.6.12 kernel running on AMD EPYC 7502 - based hardware:
> >
> > [138537.806814] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
> > [138537.806818] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no action required.
> > [138537.808456] [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 (17:31:0) MC27_STATUS[Over|CE|MiscV|-|-|-|SyndV|-|-|-]: 0xd82000000002080b
> > [138537.810080] [Hardware Error]: IPID: 0x0001002e00001e01, Syndrome: 0x000000005a000005
> > [138537.811694] [Hardware Error]: Power, Interrupts, etc. Ext. Error Code: 2, Link Error.
> > [138537.813281] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: IO, mem-tx: GEN, part-proc: SRC (no timeout)
> >
> > Is it related to some (not so) known CPU errata?
>
> Who knows.
>

There aren't any reported errata related to this that I could find.

> > Should I try to update microcode, motherboard firmware, kernel, or whatever else?
>
> Yeah, BIOS update might be a good idea, if there's a newer version for
> your board.
>

I agree. The link settings are generally tuned for the platform. So the
platform vendor may have a fix.

Thanks,
Yazen