Re: Yet another MCA handler

Zoltan Menyhart
2004-01-15T09:09:34Z

Russ Anderson wrote:
>
> Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
> >
> > I was to write the code for the recovery for poisoned memory, too,
> > but I've got no way to provoke this kind of error
> > ( I do not really know what it like is :-) )
>
> If you get that far, take the Intel Itanium 2 Processor
> Specification Update (December 2003) errata 78 into account
>
> 78. L2 cache line with poison data results in unexpected fatal MCA
>
> http://www.intel.com/design/itanium2/specupdt/251141.htm

Thanks for the hint, but as far as I can see, it's not what I look for.
This is a fatal MCA. I need something classified as recoverable
(byte 10: ERR_SEVERITY in the SAL log record header).

Zoltan Menyhart