Re: AMD64 Northbridge errors

From: Allen Smith (lazlor_at_bigboy.lotaris.org)
Date: 11/29/05

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:38:05 -0800

    On Monday 28 November 2005 03:27 pm, Marcelino Mata wrote:
    >
    > Running RHEL 3.0 x86_64 U6 (2.4.21-37.Elsmp)
    >
    > I have searched, logged a call with HP and Redhat support and have
    > turned up nothing. HP says I have memory problems, Redhat says it's a
    > known non-critical error.
    >
    > I am not sure if I am chasing after the correct problem but all six of
    > my AMD64 HP XW9300 (based off Tyan Thunder K8WE?) with anywhere between
    > 4-16Gb RAM and two Opteron CPU's get the following errors :
    >
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: CPU 0: Silent Northbridge MCE
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: Northbridge status 94044100:ac080a13
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: Error chipkill ecc error
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: ECC error syndrome ac08
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: bus error local node response, request
    > didn't time out
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: generic read
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: memory access, level generic
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: link number 0
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: dram scrub error
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: corrected ecc error
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: previous error lost
    > Nov 10 17:18:46 node4 kernel: NB error address 000000000126dd40
    >
    >
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: CPU 0: Silent Northbridge MCE
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: Northbridge status a6000001:0005001b
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: Error gart error
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: GART TLB error generic level generic
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: err cpu1
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: processor context corrupt
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: error uncorrected
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: previous error lost
    > Nov 14 19:14:16 node4 kernel: NB error address 00000000dffe0038
    >
    > Five of the computers have between 1-30 references to these error
    > messages in the past 3 weeks. One computer has over 30,000 instances of
    > these error messages. I am getting the majority of these messages on
    > computers with >4Gb RAM but I have had the messages on computers with
    > only 4GB RAM.
    >
    > The main reason I am focusing on these messages is that the computers
    > have crashed numerous times since being put online. The computer with
    > 30K instances of the error message has crashed about 1-2 times per week.
    > I am running the latest BIOS.
    >
    > I can not turn on diskdump since they have Nvidia SATA controllers (not
    > support by diskdump) and netdump has not produced anything since during
    > the kernel crash no data was written ( network driver went down? ).
    >
    > Has anyone else seen these messages or have any idea how to identify the
    > problem? Could my crashes be due to Northbridge errors or am I barking
    > up the wrong tree.
    >
    > Marcelino
    >
    > Reference Information below
    >
    > lspci information
    > -----------------
    >
    > 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller
    > (rev a3)
    > 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
    > 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
    > 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
    > 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
    > 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
    > Audio Controller (rev a2)
    > 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
    > 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
    > (rev f3)
    > 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
    > (rev f3)
    > 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
    > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet
    > Controller (rev a3)
    > 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
    > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    > 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > Address Map
    > 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > DRAM Controller
    > 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > Miscellaneous Control
    > 00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    > 00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > Address Map
    > 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > DRAM Controller
    > 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
    > Miscellaneous Control
    > 05:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A
    > IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
    > 0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41GL [Quadro FX
    > 1400] (rev a2)
    > 40:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
    > (rev 12)
    > 40:01.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
    > 40:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
    > (rev 12)
    > 40:02.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
    > 61:06.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X
    > Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)
    > 61:06.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X
    > Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 07)
    > 61:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5782
    > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
    > 80:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller
    > (rev a3)
    > 80:01.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller
    > (rev a3)
    >
    > lsmod
    > -----
    > Module Size Used by Tainted: P
    > nfs 95984 7 (autoclean)
    > audit 127208 2 (autoclean)
    > nfsd 86096 8 (autoclean)
    > lockd 60528 1 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd]
    > sunrpc 91944 1 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd lockd]
    > netconsole 19208 0 (unused)
    > autofs4 16912 2 (autoclean)
    > tg3 69936 1
    > nvnet 71168 1
    > sg 37880 0 (autoclean)
    > sr_mod 17676 0 (autoclean)
    > ide-scsi 12832 0
    > ide-cd 34408 0
    > cdrom 33096 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
    > keybdev 3104 0 (unused)
    > mousedev 6728 0 (unused)
    > hid 21992 0 (unused)
    > input 7520 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
    > ehci-hcd 21200 0 (unused)
    > usb-ohci 22864 0 (unused)
    > usbcore 85152 1 [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
    > ext3 87856 2
    > jbd 57088 2 [ext3]
    > raid0 4368 1
    > sata_nv 5116 5
    > libata 49352 0 [sata_nv]
    > mptscsih 43792 0 (unused)
    > mptbase 50472 3 [mptscsih]
    > diskdumplib 6548 0 [mptscsih mptbase]
    > sd_mod 14964 10
    > scsi_mod 130124 6 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi sata_nv libata
    > mptscsih sd_mod]
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    I have seen this on 3 similar setups. We swapped out memory and that resolved it for 2 of them. On the third we had to do a complete swap (memory/mb/ps/cpu) to make them go away. 

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