Northbridge error on AMD CPU are logged and system caused a crash

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Issue

  • Northbridge error on AMD CPU are logged and system caused a crash
  • In vmcore, the logs below are logged.

    [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 MC4_STATUS[-|UE|-|PCC|-]: 0xb200000000070f0f
    [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): Watchdog timeout due to lack of progress.
    [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: GEN, mem-tx: GEN, part-proc: GEN (timed out)
    [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b200000000070f0f
    [Hardware Error]: TSC 7c820464d79 
    [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:20f51 TIME 1408009657 SOCKET 0 APIC 0
    [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 MC4_STATUS[-|UE|-|PCC|-]: 0xb200000000070f0f
    [Hardware Error]: Northbridge Error (node 0): Watchdog timeout due to lack of progress.
    [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: GEN, mem-tx: GEN, part-proc: GEN (timed out)
    [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Processor context corrupt
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal machine check on current CPU
    Pid: 3935, comm: sshd Tainted: G   M       ---------------    2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64 #1
    Call Trace:
     <#MC>  [<ffffffff815284fc>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
     [<ffffffff8102880f>] ? mce_panic+0x20f/0x230
     [<ffffffff81029c87>] ? do_machine_check+0x7a7/0xaf0
     [<ffffffff8152bb2c>] ? machine_check+0x1c/0x30
     [<ffffffffa038a90b>] ? rtl8169_interrupt+0x1b/0x80 [r8169]
     <<EOE>>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810e6d40>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x60/0x170
     [<ffffffff810e97c8>] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x88/0xf0
     [<ffffffff8100c30c>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
     [<ffffffff8100faf9>] ? handle_irq+0x49/0xa0
     [<ffffffff815322cc>] ? do_IRQ+0x6c/0xf0
     [<ffffffff8100b9d3>] ? ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
     <EOI>
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • AMD CPU

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