From: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] MCA recovery: Montecito support
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:25:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454151E7.8010102@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610201555.k9KFtnvu20317790@clink.americas.sgi.com>
All right. Thank you, Russ.
- H.Seto
Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Russ Anderson wrote:
> It's worth noting that this change does not effect the selection of
> which process to kill. It only effects which physical memory
> address gets marked as bad.
>
> In my test case, a correctable error is injected (an ends up in the
> bus check target identifier) then a memory uncorrectable is injected
> and consumed, triggering the MCA. The test program is correctly
> terminated, but the current code uses the bus check target identifier
> and marks the address of the correctable error as bad. The real bad
> memory goes back on the free list, and promptly gets reused, triggering
> another MCA. The cycle repeats until the kernel happens to get
> the memory. Kernel memory error, end of ballgame.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-27 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-20 15:55 [patch] MCA recovery: Montecito support Russ Anderson
2006-10-21 5:22 ` Keith Owens
2006-10-23 0:53 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2006-10-23 4:09 ` Russ Anderson
2006-10-25 22:59 ` Russ Anderson
2006-10-26 0:21 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2006-10-26 23:20 ` Russ Anderson
2006-10-27 0:25 ` Hidetoshi Seto [this message]
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