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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2006-12-07 02:14:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2006-12-07 02:14:03 +0100 |
| commit | 9c5f8be4625e73f17e28fea89399ed871a30e064 (patch) | |
| tree | ae203297cc2fa309ef5807349ee1303c2b20712f /arch/x86_64/kernel | |
| parent | 7cd8b6861eb586aabe4c725cc0c259ce2e653695 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9c5f8be4625e73f17e28fea89399ed871a30e064.tar.gz lwn-9c5f8be4625e73f17e28fea89399ed871a30e064.zip | |
[PATCH] x86: Mention PCI instead of RAM in NMI parity error message
On modern systems RAM errors don't cause NMIs, but it's usually
caused by PCI SERR. Mention PCI instead of RAM in the printk.
Reported by r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp (Ryutaro Hayashi)
Cc: r_hayashi@ctc-g.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c index e37b4d77d5a8..70bfaab9822c 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c @@ -793,8 +793,7 @@ mem_parity_error(unsigned char reason, struct pt_regs * regs) { printk(KERN_EMERG "Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason %02x.\n", reason); - printk(KERN_EMERG "You probably have a hardware problem with your " - "RAM chips\n"); + printk(KERN_EMERG "You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus.\n"); if (panic_on_unrecovered_nmi) panic("NMI: Not continuing"); |