From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Steiner Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:09:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] fix per-CPU MCA mess and make UP kernels work again Message-Id: <20050204020956.GA924@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <16887.1203.470842.161249@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <16887.1203.470842.161249@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:48:26PM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > Tony Luck wrote: > > > > Also I noticed that ia64_sal_to_os_handoff_state > > hasn't been replicated ... won't we need that too? > > According to the SAL Spec, MCAs are supposed to be handled > one at a time. It has been a long time since I looked, but I thought the spec allowed either implemention, ie. serialize OR all-at-once. Maybe I'm remembering the error handling guide but I know I have seen this somewhere..... > > I would like that to change, so that multiple independent > MCAs could be handled in parallel, but that would require > a number of Spec changes (ie the way rendezvous works). > > We should go down that path... > > -- > Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead > SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thanks Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) 651-683-5302 Principal Engineer SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.