Bug 134461
| Summary: | Machine check handling code is not detailed and is deadlock prone | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Manpreet Singh <manpreet> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Brian Maly <bmaly> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | petrides, riel | ||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-04-19 19:43:43 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 104673 [details]
The patch mentioned in the description
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020903 Description of problem: The machine check code in the Redhat update3 kernel, which is based on the 2.4.21 stock kernel code has several shortcomings. The stock kernel through 2.4.27 has undergone several changes that fixes several problems including: - Detailed decoding for the error status reported during machine checks. - Proper handling of printks to report unrecoverable errors. (allowing printks to get to the console etc.) Attached is a patch against the RHAS3 update3 kernel that backports the 2.4.27 machine check code. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): linux kernel version 2.4.21-20.ELsmp How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run on a machine that produces machine check exceptions. 2. 3. Additional info: