Hi

I installed Fedora 17 last week, and my messages log and kernel log has been
filled with the following message:

[Firmware Bug]: APEI: Invalid bit width + offset in GAR [0xcfeb6110/32/0/1/0]

It is repeated every few seconds (seems to be more often when the cpus are
loaded). I can't see that anything isn't working. If I reboot into Fedora
15, the messages aren't there. Does anyone know what is complaining, and if
there is some way to turn the messages off? TIA.

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Kernel bug it seems:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43282

There's a couple of patches available from the link, but I'm guessing a "proper" fix in the form of an updated RPM will be along PDQ given the severity of the bug.


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>
On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 7:08:38 PM Andy Blanchard wrote:


> Kernel bug it seems:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43282

There's a couple of patches available from the link, but I'm guessing a "proper" fix in the form of an updated RPM will be along PDQ given the severity of the bug.

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>


Thanks. It does look like a fix will come pretty soon. But does anyone know what APEI and GAR stand for?

*

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Hi Lester,

2012/6/19 Lester M. Petrie Jr. <petrielmjr@ornl.gov>:
> Thanks. It does look like a fix will come pretty soon. But does anyone know
> what APEI and GAR stand for?
>
>

from Linux/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c

1 /*
2 * apei-base.c - ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI) supporting
3 * infrastructure
4 *
5 * APEI allows to report errors (for example from the chipset) to the
6 * the operating system. This improves NMI handling especially. In
7 * addition it supports error serialization and error injection.
8 *
9 * For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
10 * version 4.0, chapter 17.
11 *
12 * This file has Common functions used by more than one APEI table,
13 * including framework of interpreter for ERST and EINJ; resource
14 * management for APEI registers.
15 *
16 * Copyright (C) 2009, Intel Corp.
17 * Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>

HTH
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Hi Alessandro,

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:49:20 PM Alessandro Brezzi wrote:
> Hi Lester,
>
> 2012/6/19 Lester M. Petrie Jr. <petrielmjr@ornl.gov>:
> > Thanks. It does look like a fix will come pretty soon. But does anyone
> > know
> > what APEI and GAR stand for?
>
> from Linux/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
>
> 1 /*
> 2 * apei-base.c - ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI) supporting
> 3 * infrastructure
> 4 *
> 5 * APEI allows to report errors (for example from the chipset) to the
> 6 * the operating system. This improves NMI handling especially. In
> 7 * addition it supports error serialization and error injection.
> 8 *
> 9 * For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
> 10 * version 4.0, chapter 17.
> 11 *
> 12 * This file has Common functions used by more than one APEI table,
> 13 * including framework of interpreter for ERST and EINJ; resource
> 14 * management for APEI registers.
> 15 *
> 16 * Copyright (C) 2009, Intel Corp.
> 17 * Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
>
> HTH

Thanks. That is enough information to satisfy my curiosity. Now I'll just
wait for an update to make the flood cease.

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Lester,

>
> Thanks. *That is enough information to satisfy my curiosity. *Now I'll just
> wait for an update to make the flood cease.

you can boot with ghes.disable=1 to avoid the log flood for now.

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Alessandro,

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 8:56:28 PM Alessandro Brezzi wrote:
> Lester,
>
> > Thanks. That is enough information to satisfy my curiosity. Now I'll
> > just
> > wait for an update to make the flood cease.
>
> you can boot with ghes.disable=1 to avoid the log flood for now.

Many, many thanks for this.

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