On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:00:38PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:52:17 EDT, Vivek Goyal said: > > > I am assuming that basic MCE error messages are available in kernel log. > > They're not in the kernel log if it's an MCE that causes the kernel to declare > a panic. There's some MCE's that you can retry the operation and continue, and > some that you can get away with poisoning a page, killing the process, and rest > of the system is OK. But some you really need to roll over and die because you > can't guarantee kernel integrity anymore. > > And at that point, those messages are never gonna make it to syslogd and onto > disk. Actually I meant that these messages should have made into kernel log buffer and not on disk. And user space has capability to just extract kernel log buffer by looking at /proc/vmcore. Thanks Vivek -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
