Re: Yet another MCA handler

Russ Anderson
2004-01-14T23:32:01Z

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

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Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com