Re: When are machine checks suppose to be recoverable?

On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:30 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 07:44 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:00 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

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David's 8250 cleanup patch made me wondering when are machine checks

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suppose to recoverable?  General class of conditions is what I'm
looking for here.

Is David's case due to some PCI master abort or something else?

Might be some issue on SMP machines...

Yeah, that'll probably be the reason it turns out _not_ to be
recoverable despite our expectations. But that wasn't Kumar's  
question.

David's right, that wasn't my question :)  I was asking more about  
what cases do we actually recover and that is considered correct  
behavior.

- kumar