[sles-beta] Problems with mcelog on HP-Proliant Server with AMD Opteron processors

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

I noticed this on a AMD server too but since I had not installed SP2 on there before, I didn't know it had changed.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-
> bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of urs.frey at post.ch
> Sent: Monday, 4 March 2013 7:57 PM
> To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: [sles-beta] Problems with mcelog on HP-Proliant Server with
> AMD Opteron processors
> 
> Hi
> 
> Installation of SLES11-SP3 beta2 works smoothly.
> I am testing on:
> HP Proliant DL385-G5
> HP Proliant BL465c-G7 Blade: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172
> HP Proliant BL465c-Gen8 Blade : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6220
> HP Proliant BL460c-Gen8 Blade : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @
> 2.20GHz
> 
> The only thing which irritates me, is that mcelog failed message on my
> console:
> 
> On all AMD Opteron Processors models I get this failure:  "CPU is
> unsupported"
> 
> h04syy:/etc/init.d # /etc/init.d/mcelog start
> Starting mcelog... CPU is unsupported
> startproc:  exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/mcelog: 1
> failed
> h04syy:/etc/init.d #
> 
> I mean under SLES11-SP2 mcelog works with no failure.
> On SLES11-SP2 there is an older release of mcelog
> 
> h04wwl:~ # uname -a
> Linux h04wwl 3.0.58-0.6.6-default #1 SMP Tue Feb 19 11:07:00 UTC 2013
> (1576ecd) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> h04wwl:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
> VERSION = 11
> PATCHLEVEL = 2
> h04wwl:~ #
> h04wwl:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
> model name      : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172
> h04wwl:~ # ps -ef | grep mcelog
> root      5603     1  0 Feb27 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mcelog --
> daemon --config-file /etc/mcelog/mcelog.conf
> root     31534 31503  0 10:27 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mcelog
> h04wwl:~ # cat /var/run/mcelog.pid
> 5603
> h04wwl:~ #
> freyu at h04wwl:~> rpm -q --changelog mcelog-1.0.2011.06.08-0.11.1 | less
> * Tue Apr 17 2012 trenn at suse.de
> - Add Ivy Bridge support (bnc#748484)
> - Add forgotten CPU model 0x25 (bnc#742716)
> 
> On Intel mcelog works on SLES11-SP3 beta2
> model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
> h05cni:~ #
> h05cni:~ # uname -a
> Linux h05cni 3.0.65-0.9-default #1 SMP Mon Feb 25 07:21:23 UTC 2013
> (055263a) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> h05cni:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
> VERSION = 11
> PATCHLEVEL = 3
> h05cni:~ # ps -ef | grep mcelog | grep -v grep
> root      4949     1  0 10:33 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mcelog --
> daemon --config-file /etc/mcelog/mcelog.conf
> h05cni:~ # cat /var/run/mcelog.pid
> 4949
> h05cni:~ #
> 
> But on AMD processors mcelog does not work anymore on SLES11-SP3 beta2
> model name      : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6220
> h05cnh:~ # ps -ef | grep mcelog | grep -v grep
> h05cnh:~ # uname -a
> Linux h05cnh 3.0.65-0.9-default #1 SMP Mon Feb 25 07:21:23 UTC 2013
> (055263a) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> h05cnh:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
> VERSION = 11
> PATCHLEVEL = 3
> h05cnh:~ #
> 
> 
> With SLES11-SP3 a new release of mcelog has been included: This is new
> in the RPM changelog:
> h05cnh:~ # rpm -qa | grep mcelog
> mcelog-1.0.2013.01.18-0.7.7
> h05cnh:~ # rpm -q --changelog mcelog-1.0.2013.01.18-0.7.7 | less
> * Mon Jan 21 2013 trenn at suse.de
> - Updated to latest git state (2013-01-18) (fate#313746)
>   and removed patches which went upstream meanwhile (for example
>   enabling ivybridge, fate#313745). This one has latest IvyBridge EX/EP
>   CPU decoding support
> - Removed wrongly used getdomainname call and replaced it with
>   a dnslookup call as done in factory for a while
> 
> QUESTION:
> Is there now a special configuration needed for AMD Opteron processors?
> When I diff /etc/mcelog/mcelog.conf from SLES11-SP2 and SLES11-SP3
> there is no difference at all.
> 
> So why is there the message "CPU is unsupported" only on Amd Opteron
> processors?
> Can it be, that with the removal of patches, some AMD specific code has
> been removed?
> 
> Thanks for your feedback
> Best regards
> 
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