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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:00:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        <yvictorovich@optima-hyper.com>
Cc:        <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: "unexpected machine check" on AS1000A
Message-ID:  <15483.52551.296701.638173@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E052D8D86575D511A0E1009027D3B862150889@hqsmail.SNET>
References:  <E052D8D86575D511A0E1009027D3B862150889@hqsmail.SNET>

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The cpu option in the config file is meaningless & should be ignored
on alpha.  However, you should be able to add 
CPUTYPE=ev56
to /etc/make.conf.  This will result in smaller, faster binaries which
have a better chance of avoiding optimizer bugs at higher optimization
levels.

However, your problem is probably bad memory.  It looks like you had 5
single bit errors (one for each "Warning: received processor
correctable error") then then you had a multiple bit error, which
cannot be corrected & results in the hardware throwing an
uncorrectable machine check.



Drew


Yuri Victorovich writes:
 > On my AS1000A 5/500, 500MHz I got FreeBSD 4.5
 > installed.
 > Kernel cvsuped from FreeBSD 4.5 STABLE (RELENG_4)
 > as of today's morning and rebuilt
 > with
 > <<
 >   options DEC_1000A
 >   cpu     EV5
 > >>
 > Other similar options DEC_XXX and EV4 are
 > commented out since they are for other
 > kinds of alpha.
 > 
 > Machine boots up and after some while of
 > "make world" and some other activities
 > "unexpected machine check", see log
 > below.
 > 
 > Can it be because of preceding "processor
 > correctable error"?
 > 
 > Or maybe because when system boots it
 > identifies cpu as:
 > 
 > CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=1 extensions=0x1<BWX>
 > 
 > and in options is only EV5 the closest match?
 > 
 > What's strange -- this never happened during several
 > installs from floppies and CDROM or FTP.
 > 
 > Other info of possible interest from boot log:
 > OSF PAL rev: 0x1000600020116
 > 
 > Or am I missing something again? ))
 > 
 > Any help will be greatly appreciated!
 > 
 > Yuri.
 > 
 > 
 > ================================================
 > 
 > [...]
 > Feb 26 11:19:11 s2 /kernel: cd0 at isp0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
 > Feb 26 11:19:11 s2 /kernel: cd0: <DEC RRD46   (C) DEC 1337> Removable CD-ROM
 > SCSI-2 device
 > Feb 26 11:19:11 s2 /kernel: cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8)
 > Feb 26 11:19:11 s2 /kernel: cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT
 > READY, Medium not present
 > Feb 26 11:19:48 s2 su: yuri to root on /dev/ttyp0
 > Feb 26 11:20:09 s2 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyd0
 > Feb 26 11:22:57 s2 /kernel: Warning: received processor correctable error.
 > Feb 26 11:31:29 s2 /kernel: Warning: received processor correctable error.
 > Feb 26 11:33:03 s2 last message repeated 3 times
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel:
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: unexpected machine check:
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel:
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: mces    = 0x1
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: vector  = 0x670
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: param   = 0xfffffc0000006060
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: pc      = 0xfffffc00003cc09c
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: ra      = 0xfffffc00004231f4
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: curproc = 0xfffffe00098ded00
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: pid = 15247, comm = install
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel:
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: panic: machine check
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel:
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: syncing disks... 84 25 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24
 > 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: giving up on 24 buffers
 > Feb 26 11:39:07 s2 /kernel: Uptime: 17m42s
 > 
 > 
 > 
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