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Commit 4855170f authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[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: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 2cbc9ee3

arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c

+4 −0
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@@ -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)