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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2006-01-11 22:44:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-11 19:04:55 -0800 |
| commit | 4855170f9876c8b4a16f115f32cf6851bac1ffcc (patch) | |
| tree | 163b0c5118421c290f52ec4ae638084b9224fa02 /arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c | |
| parent | 2cbc9ee35c992f88fb2558a4f13920e3df4ef3bb (diff) | |
| download | lwn-4855170f9876c8b4a16f115f32cf6851bac1ffcc.tar.gz lwn-4855170f9876c8b4a16f115f32cf6851bac1ffcc.zip | |
[PATCH] x86_64: Make it clear in machine checks that it's an hardware problem
Hopefully the users will take the hint.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c index 281ad5f1f86a..b8f28ebdce26 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ void mce_log(struct mce *mce) static void print_mce(struct mce *m) { printk(KERN_EMERG "\n" + KERN_EMERG "HARDWARE ERROR\n" KERN_EMERG "CPU %d: Machine Check Exception: %16Lx Bank %d: %016Lx\n", m->cpu, m->mcgstatus, m->bank, m->status); @@ -110,6 +111,9 @@ static void print_mce(struct mce *m) if (m->misc) printk("MISC %Lx ", m->misc); printk("\n"); + printk(KERN_EMERG "This is not a software problem!\n"); + printk(KERN_EMERG + "Run through mcelog --ascii to decode and contact your hardware vendor\n"); } static void mce_panic(char *msg, struct mce *backup, unsigned long start) |