strange mcelog mesage / still in rc7.git10

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 07/25/2011 10:43 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 07/22/2011 10:19 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> On 07/22/2011 09:27 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>>> Processor 7 below trip temperature
>>
>> ISTR seeing some mention of problems with X & MCE messages on Sandy Bridge.  The first thing to try is reverting this patch in your kernel: linux-2.6 commit ccab5c82759e2ace74b2e84f82d1e0eedd932571.
>>
>> Some of the Dell R910 laptops had this weird error too.  It was caused by some bogus MCEs being kicked during C1E and C-state transitions BUT ... that was a different processor (Westmere or Nehalem IIRC).
>>
>> In any case this isn't a critical situation -- your laptop keeps running and is warning you that it thinks something is wrong.  Can you try disabling C1E and C-state transitions in your BIOS?
>>
>> P.
>>
> 
>   Forgot to check BIOS settings - would they be labeled as such (C1E /
> C-state) ?

Yeah, something like that.  It might be labeled as just "Processor Power State" or something too.


> 
>   Also after updating bios i see no issues - but I am actually not sure
> they occur until after a sleep - so I'll keep the list posted.

Try backing out the commit above.

P.

> 
>   thanks for your help.
> 
>   gene
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