Bug#613973: linux-image-2.6.37-1-686: Disturbing [Hardware Error] MCE messages in 2.6.37

[Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:59:51PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.37-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After upgrade to 2.6.37, I started having tons of errors like those shown
> below, about MCE. This happens in all terminals, in a sid box that did not
> show this problem until 2.6.37 is installed.
> 
> [  300.004017] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  300.004025] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [  300.004028] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> [  300.004031] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  300.004033] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [  300.004036] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
> [  450.004015] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  450.004024] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [  450.004027] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  450.004030] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [  450.004033] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
> [  525.004016] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  525.004023] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [  525.004026] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  525.004029] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [  525.004032] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
> [  562.504013] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  562.504019] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [  562.504023] [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [  562.504025] [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> 
> 
> Browsing a bit about this, seems that Andi Kleen patch in
> 
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6e3c7411d2b86bff210c59caa432e8e862037bfd
> 
> may help.
> 
> Pointed to it by last question in
> 
>  http://www.mcelog.org/faq.html
> 
> Sending minimal info because above info seems enough. Let me know if
> extensive info is needed. Running on AMD K7.

Do not expect this to make a difference, but processor is indeed an AMD Athlon XP 2800+

-- 
Agustin