kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason...

[Christoph Höger]

Am Montag, den 10.03.2008, 16:43 +0100 schrieb Lubomir Kundrak:
> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:04 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > This has been going on of depending on kernels shipped with FC6-8 I 
> > noticed it...
> > ( HW: Dell inspiron 6000 ) ( yes with the latest kernel FC8 )
> > 
> > Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason bX on CPU 0.
> > You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus.
> > Dazed and confused, but trying to continue....
> > 
> > Can we fix this messages somehow it's kinda misleading, it
> > suggest that the hw is failing when in 99% it's a buggy driver..
> > 
> > When I read "You have some hardware problem" I think
> > my hardware is failing and I need to backup my data
> > and replace the part that is failing....
> > 
> > Better would be..
> > 
> > Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason bX on CPU 0.
> > I have been feed [ driver X ] buggy driver ...
> > Dazed and confused, but trying to continue....
> 
> Why do you think it is a faulty driver? For me it seems that most
> obvious reason for triggering a NMI is a buggy hardware.
> 
> -- 
> Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)
> 

I know that there are drivers that produce NMI faults. I never saw that
on linux, though.
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