Kernel warning

[Jerry Feldman]

On 04/03/2010 12:33 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  =20
>> On 04/02/2010 11:50 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
>>    =20
>>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 07:53:41AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>>
>>>      =20
>>>> I'm seeing the following in my nightly logs:
>>>>
>>>> amd64_edac: probe of 0000:00:18.2 failed with error -22 ...:  1 Time=
(s)
>>>>        =20
> -EINVAL
>
> >From the looks of the amd64_edac code, it thinks ecc isn't enabled on
> your machine for some reason.
>  =20
>
> Are you positive? The driver seems to think you don't, unless I'm
> misreading something in the code, or not looking at the same code that
> you're actually running. So I guess a good question would be "what
> kernel are you seeing this on?".
>
> The current upstream code's probe routine only returns -EINVAL if its
> call to amd64_check_ecc_enabled() fails. However, it also appears as
> if it should have logged some additional relevant information just
> before the probe failure message.
>
>  =20
I just powered off my system to install a cable, and in checking the
BIOS, ECC was in fact off eventhough I have ECC memory. For some reason,
I thought it was on. I do have ECC memory.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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